The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. Orsay Museum is situated 1¼ km southwest of Rue Coq-Héron.
The Church of St. Eustache, Paris, is a church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The present building was built between 1532 and 1633. Situated near the site of Paris' medieval marketplace and rue Montorgueil, Saint-Eustache exemplifies a mixture of multiple architectural styles: its structure is Flamboyant Gothic while its interior decoration and other details are Renaissance and classical. Saint-Eustache is situated 240 metres southeast of Rue Coq-Héron.
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. Centre Georges Pompidou is situated 1 km southeast of Rue Coq-Héron.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quartier des Halles and 2nd arrondissement.
The Quartier des Halles is the second administrative district in Paris, forming part of the 1st arrondissement. Covering an area of 41.2 hectares, it is bounded by Rue de Rivoli to the south, Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs to the west, Rue Étienne-Marcel to the north, and Boulevard de Sébastopol to the east.
The 2nd arrondissement of Paris is one of the financial centres of Europe, being home to the Bourse and thus the CAC 40 index you hear about in world financial news. Other major activities in the neighbourhood are journalism and fashion.
The centre of contemporary Paris and the site of such landmarks as the Louvre and of the Tuileries and Palais-Royal, the 1st arrondissement is full of attractions for travellers of all inclinations, including some of the finest parks, museums, shops, and bars in the city.
