Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement of Nanterre
Puteaux

Grande Arche

La Grande Arche de la Défense, originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a and building in the business district of and in the commune of , to the west of , France.
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  • 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.

Metro station
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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.

School
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Business School is a business school and Grande école. Its main campus is located in , with additional campuses in , , and . is situated 230 metres east of Grande Arche.

Shopping center
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Westfield Les 4 Temps is the main shopping centre in the business district of , in the western suburbs of , on the territory of the commune of in the . is situated 260 metres southeast of Grande Arche.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include La Défense and Puteaux.

Photo: Micdjunior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a collection of modern high-rise office and residential buildings built according to an evolving central plan on the western outskirts of , beyond the last Parisian loop of the river Seine.

Town
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is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the heart of the department, 8.7 kilometres from the . , Paris's business district hosting the tallest buildings in the metropolitan area, spreads over the northern part of and parts of the neighbouring communes and .

Town
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is a commune located in the department of the region of France. It is a suburb of , 8.2 km from the .

Grande Arche

Latitude
48.89257° or 48° 53′ 33″ north
Longitude
2.23588° or 2° 14′ 9″ east
Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)
Inception
1989
Levels
39
Height
110 metres (361 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V6VP+28
Open­Street­Map ID
way 19441489
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­office
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6947010
Wiki­data 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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