Avenue Foch
The Avenue Foch is an avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, named after World War I Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1929. It was previously known as the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Street
- Description: avenue in Paris, France
- Also known as: “avenue Foch”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Arc de Triomphe and Embassy of Ireland.
Arc de Triomphe
Photo: Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often simply called the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France. It is located at the western end of the Champs-Élysées, at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle—formerly known as Place de l'Étoile—named for the star-shaped configuration formed by the convergence of twelve radiating avenues. Arc de Triomphe is situated 210 metres east of Avenue Foch.
Embassy of Ireland
Government office
Photo: Ralf.treinen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Embassy of Ireland in Paris is the diplomatic mission of Ireland to France. It is located at 12 Avenue Foch in the 16th arrondissement. The embassy is accredited to Monaco. As of April 2023, the ambassador to France is Niall Burgess.
Eiffel Tower
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The Eiffel Tower is a lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Eiffel Tower is situated 1½ km south of Avenue Foch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porte Maillot and Porte des Ternes.
Porte Maillot
Locality
The Porte Maillot is one of the access points into Paris mentioned in 1860 and one of the ancient city gates in the Thiers wall.
8th arrondissement
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The 8th arrondissement of Paris is home to the Avenue des Champs Elysées, which ends up at the Arc de Triomphe. The executive branch of French government is also based here, as well as the embassies of certain nations.
Avenue Foch
- Categories: avenue and transportation
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Avenue Foch” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “avenue Foch”
- Albanian: “avenue Foch”
- Aragonese: “avenue Foch”
- Armenian: “ավենյու Ֆոշ”
- Asturian: “avenue Foch”
- Basque: “avenue Foch”
- Bavarian: “avenue Foch”
- Bosnian: “avenue Foch”
- Breton: “avenue Foch”
- Catalan: “avenue Foch”
- Chinese: “福煦大街”
- Cornish: “avenue Foch”
- Corsican: “avenue Foch”
- Croatian: “avenue Foch”
- Czech: “Avenue Foch”
- Danish: “avenue Foch”
- Dutch: “avenue Foch”
- Esperanto: “Avenue Foch”
- Esperanto: “Avenuo Foch”
- Estonian: “avenue Foch”
- Faroese: “avenue Foch”
- Finnish: “Avenue Foch”
- French: “Avenue de l’Impératrice”
- French: “Avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne”
- French: “Avenue du Bois”
- French: “Avenue du Général-Uhrich”
- French: “avenue Foch, Paris”
- French: “avenue Foch”
- French: “Avenue Foch”
- French: “Avenue du Bois de Boulogne” (historical)
- Galician: “avenue Foch”
- German: “Avenue Foch”
- Greek: “Λεωφόρος της Αυτοκράτειρας”
- Greek: “Λεωφόρος του Δάσους της Βουλώνης”
- Greek: “Λεωφόρος του Δάσους”
- Greek: “Λεωφόρος Φος”
- Hungarian: “avenue Foch”
- Icelandic: “avenue Foch”
- Indonesian: “Avenue foch”
- Indonesian: “Avenue Foch”
- Irish: “avenue Foch”
- Italian: “Avenue Foch”
- Japanese: “フォッシュ大通り”
- Japanese: “フォッシュ通り”
- Latvian: “avenue Foch”
- Lithuanian: “avenue Foch”
- Luxembourgish: “avenue Foch”
- Malay: “Avenue Foch”
- Maltese: “avenue Foch”
- Manx: “avenue Foch”
- Narom: “avenue Foch”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “avenue Foch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “avenue Foch”
- Norwegian: “Avenue Foch”
- Occitan (post 1500): “avenue Foch”
- Persian: “خیابان فوش”
- Piemontese: “avenue Foch”
- Polish: “avenue Foch”
- Portuguese: “avenida Foch”
- Portuguese: “Avenida Foch”
- Romanian: “avenue Foch”
- Romansh: “avenue Foch”
- Scottish Gaelic: “avenue Foch”
- Serbian: “Авенија Фош, Париз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “avenue Foch”
- Slovak: “Avenue Foch”
- Slovenian: “avenue Foch”
- Spanish: “Avenida Foch”
- Spanish: “Avenue Foch”
- Swedish: “Avenue Foch”
- Tahitian: “avenue Foch”
- Turkish: “avenue Foch”
- Turkish: “Foch Caddesi”
- Urdu: “فوش ایونیو”
- Walloon: “avenue Foch”
- Welsh: “avenue Foch”
- Zulu: “avenue Foch”
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