Grande Arche
La Grande Arche de la Défense, originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris, France.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cristian Bortes, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Luctor IV, Public domain.
- Opening hours:
January 2nd—March 31st and October 1st—December 31st: 10:00 AM—7:00 PM
April 1st—September 30th: 10:00 AM—11:00 PM - Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: monument and building in Paris’s La Défense
- Also known as: “Arche de la Defense”, “Arche de la Défense”, “Grande Arche de la Defense”, “Grande Arche de la Défense”, and “La Grande Arche”
- Address: 1 Parvis de la Défense
- Wheelchair access: yes
Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include La Défense–Grande Arche and ESSEC.
La Défense–Grande Arche
Metro station
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
La Défense station is a station of the Transilien suburban rail lines, RER commuter rail network, Paris Métro, as well as a stop of the Île-de-France tram network.
ESSEC
School
Photo: Rdavout, CC BY-SA 2.5.
ESSEC Business School is a French business school and Grande école. Its main campus is located in Cergy, with additional campuses in Paris, Rabat, and Singapore. ESSEC is situated 230 metres east of Grande Arche.
Les Quatre Temps
Shopping center
Photo: Jakubszypulka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westfield Les 4 Temps is the main shopping centre in the business district of La Défense, in the western suburbs of Paris, on the territory of the commune of Puteaux in the Hauts-de-Seine. Les Quatre Temps is situated 260 metres southeast of Grande Arche.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Défense and Puteaux.
La Défense
Photo: Micdjunior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Défense is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of Paris, beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.
Puteaux
Town
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Puteaux is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the Hauts-de-Seine department, 8.7 kilometres from the centre of Paris. La Défense, Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, spreads over the northern part of Puteaux and parts of the neighbouring communes Courbevoie and Nanterre.
Courbevoie
Town
Photo: Clicsouris, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Courbevoie is a commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region of France. It is a suburb of Paris, 8.2 km from the center of Paris.
Grande Arche
- Categories: triumphal arch, office building, skyscraper, building, and tourism
- Location: Puteaux, Arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.89257° or 48° 53′ 33″ northLongitude
2.23588° or 2° 14′ 9″ eastElevation
75 metres (246 feet)Inception
1989Levels
39Height
110 metres (361 feet)Open location code
8FW4V6VP+28OpenStreetMap ID
way 19441489OpenStreetMap feature
building=officeOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
6947010Wikidata ID
Q216357
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Grande Arche” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Arche de la Défense”
- Arabic: “قوس لاديفونس”
- Arabic: “لاديفانص”
- Armenian: “Դեֆանսի մեծ կամար”
- Basque: “Grande Arche”
- Basque: “La Défense Arkua”
- Belarusian: “Вялікая арка Дэфанс”
- Bulgarian: “Голямата арка”
- Catalan: “Arc de la Défense”
- Catalan: “Arche de la Défense”
- Catalan: “Gran Arc de la Fraternitat”
- Catalan: “Gran Arc”
- Catalan: “Grande Arche de la Fraternité”
- Catalan: “Grande Arche”
- Chinese: “Arche de la Défense”
- Chinese: “拉德芳斯新凯旋门”
- Chinese: “拉德芳斯新凱旋門”
- Chinese: “新凯旋门”
- Chinese: “新凱旋門”
- Croatian: “Arche de la Défense”
- Czech: “Grande Arche de La Défense”
- Czech: “Grande Arche”
- Czech: “La Grande Arche”
- Danish: “Arche de la Défense”
- Danish: “Grande Arche de la Fraternité”
- Danish: “Grande Arche”
- Danish: “La Grande Arche”
- Danish: “Menneskehedens Triumfbue”
- Danish: “Nye triumfbue”
- Dutch: “Grande Arche”
- Dutch: “La Grande Arche”
- Esperanto: “Granda Arko de La Défense”
- Esperanto: “Grande Arche de la Défense”
- Estonian: “Grande Arche”
- Finnish: “Grande Arche”
- Finnish: “La Grande Arche”
- French: “Arche de la Defense”
- French: “arche de la Défense”
- French: “Arche de la Défense”
- French: “Grande arche de la défense”
- French: “Grande Arche de la Défense”
- French: “Grande Arche”
- French: “L’Arche de la Défense”
- French: “La Grande Arche”
- Galician: “Arco da Défense”
- Galician: “Arco de La Défense”
- Georgian: “გრანდ არკი”
- German: “Grande Arche”
- German: “L’Arche de La Défense”
- German: “La Grande Arche de la Fraternité”
- Hebrew: “ארש דה לה דפנס”
- Hebrew: “גראנד ארש”
- Hebrew: “גרנד ארש”
- Hebrew: “לה גרנד ארש”
- Hungarian: “Grande Arche”
- Indonesian: “Arche de la Defense”
- Indonesian: “Arche de la Défense”
- Indonesian: “Grande Arche de la Fraternité”
- Indonesian: “Grande Arche”
- Indonesian: “La Grande Arche”
- Italian: “Arco de La Défense”
- Italian: “Arco della Défense”
- Italian: “Grande Arche de la Fraternité”
- Japanese: “グラン・アルシェ”
- Japanese: “グランダルシュ”
- Japanese: “グランデ・アルシェ”
- Japanese: “新凱旋門”
- Javanese: “Arche de la Défense”
- Korean: “신개선문”
- Malay: “Grande Arche”
- Malayalam: “ഗ്രാൻഡെ ആർച്ചേ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Arche de la Défense”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Grande Arche”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arche de la Défense”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Defense et son arche”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grande Arche de La Défense”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grande Arche”
- Norwegian: “Arche de la Défense”
- Persian: “تاق بزرگ”
- Polish: “Grande Arche de la Fraternité”
- Polish: “Grande Arche”
- Polish: “La Grande Arche de La Défense”
- Polish: “Wielki Łuk Braterstwa”
- Portuguese: “Arche de la défense”
- Portuguese: “Grande Arche”
- Portuguese: “Grande Arco de la Défense”
- Romanian: “Grande Arche”
- Russian: “Большая арка Дефанс”
- Russian: “Гранд-Арш”
- Scots: “Grande Arche”
- Serbian: “Капија Дефанса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grande Arche”
- Slovak: “Grande Arche”
- Slovenian: “Grande Arche de la Défense”
- Spanish: “Arche de la Defense”
- Spanish: “Arche de la Défense”
- Spanish: “Arco de la Defensa”
- Spanish: “Arco de la Defense”
- Spanish: “Arco de la Défense”
- Spanish: “Arco de La Défense”
- Spanish: “Gran Arco de la Fraternidad”
- Spanish: “Grande Arche de la Fraternite”
- Spanish: “Grande Arche de la Fraternité”
- Spanish: “Grande Arche”
- Swedish: “Grande Arche”
- Thai: “ประตูลา เดฟองซ์”
- Thai: “ประตูใหญ่แห่งภราดรภาพ”
- Thai: “อาร์ชเดอลาเดฟ็องส์”
- Turkish: “Arche de la Défense”
- Ukrainian: “Велика арка Дефанс”
- Urdu: “دفاع کی عظیم محراب”
- Vietnamese: “Arche de la Défense”
- Vietnamese: “Grande Arche de la Fraternité”
- Vietnamese: “Grande Arche”
- Vietnamese: “La Grande Arche”
- Western Panjabi: “وڈی محراب”
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