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Montparnasse Tower

Tour Maine-Montparnasse, also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre office skyscraper in the area of , France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre in the business district west of Paris's city limits.
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  • Opening hours: 9:30 AM—11:30 PM
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: skyscraper in Paris
  • Also known as: “Maine-Montparnasse Tower”, “Tour Maine-Montparnasse”, and “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Roof shape: flat
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gare Montparnasse and Musée Bourdelle.

Railway station
Photo: Gunnar Klack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, officially Paris Montparnasse and formerly Gare de l'Ouest, is one of the seven large Paris railway termini, and is located in the and . is situated 310 metres southwest of Montparnasse Tower.

Museum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an art museum located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the , , located in the old studio of French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. is situated 290 metres northwest of Montparnasse Tower.

Restaurant
Photo: Arnaud 25, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a restaurant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montparnasse and 14th arrondissement.

Suburb
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is an area in the south of , , on the of the river , centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

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Although largely residential, the is best known for its northeastern quartier Montparnasse, for the Paris Catacombs and the Parc Montsouris.

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
As with itself, the is hard to write about without using superlatives. There's a bit of everything here, from the busy sidewalks of Paris' main art Gallery scene to the expansive green spaces and under-tree cafés of the Jardin…

Montparnasse Tower

Latitude
48.84211° or 48° 50′ 32″ north
Longitude
2.32198° or 2° 19′ 19″ east
Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)
Inception
1972
Levels
59
Height
210 metres (689 feet)
Open location code
8FW4R8RC+RQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 16406633
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­tower
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­flat
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6452893
Wiki­data ID
Q323767
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Montparnasse Tower” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Albanian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Arabic: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Arabic: “برج مونبارناس”
  • Armenian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Armenian: “Մոնպառնասի աշտարակ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Monparnas qülləsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Basque: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Belarusian: “Вежа Манпарнас”
  • Catalan: “Torre Montparnasse”
  • Catalan: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Chinese: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Chinese: “蒙帕納斯大樓”
  • Chinese: “蒙帕纳斯大楼”
  • Croatian: “Montparnasse”
  • Croatian: “Toranj Montparnasse”
  • Czech: “Tour Maine-Montparnasse”
  • Czech: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Czech: “Věž Montparnasse”
  • Danish: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Dutch: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برج مونبارناس”
  • Esperanto: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Esperanto: “Turo Montparnasse”
  • Estonian: “Tour Maine-Montparnasse”
  • Estonian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Finnish: “Montparnassen torni”
  • Finnish: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • French: “Tour Maine Montparnasse”
  • French: “Tour Maine-Montparnasse”
  • French: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Galician: “Torre Montparnasse”
  • German: “Maine-Montparnasse-Turm”
  • German: “Montparnasse-Hochhaus”
  • German: “Montparnasse-Turm”
  • German: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל מונפרנאס”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל מונפרנס”
  • Hungarian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Indonesian: “Menara Montparnasse”
  • Indonesian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Italian: “Torre di montparnasse”
  • Italian: “Torre Montparnasse”
  • Italian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Japanese: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Japanese: “トゥール・モンパルナス”
  • Japanese: “モンパルナス・タワー”
  • Japanese: “モンパルナスタワー”
  • Javanese: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Korean: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Korean: “몽파르나스 타워”
  • Latin: “turris Montis Parnassi”
  • Latvian: “Monparnasas tornis”
  • Latvian: “Montparnasse tornis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Malay: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Norwegian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Persian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Persian: “تور مون‌پارناس”
  • Piemontese: “Tor Montparnasse”
  • Polish: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Polish: “Wieża Montparnasse”
  • Portuguese: “Torre Montparnasse”
  • Romanian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Romanian: “Turnul Montparnasse”
  • Russian: “Башня Монпарнас”
  • Russian: “Тур Монпарнас”
  • Serbian: “Торањ Монпарнас”
  • Slovak: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Spanish: “Torre Montparnasse”
  • Spanish: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Swedish: “Montparnassetornet”
  • Swedish: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Turkish: “Montparnasse Kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Ukrainian: “Tour Montparnasse”
  • Ukrainian: “Вежа Монпарнас”
  • Urdu: “مونپارناس ٹاور”
  • Vietnamese: “Tháp Montparnasse”
  • Vietnamese: “Tour Montparnasse”

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