Avenue of the Champs-Elysées:
The Champs-Elysées are located in the VIIIth district of Paris, to the northwest of the city. They begin from the Concorde place, where draws up the obelisk, and spread upon about 3 km, from the East to west, on flat ground in the first half, then in rise until the Charles de Gaulle place (former Place of Star, to the summit of the hillock of Chaillot), in the centre of which is the Triumphal arch.
Its rectilinear tracing offers a long perspective born o the Louvre palace, in which aligns the Obelisk, the Triumphal arch, and farther to the west, outside of Paris, the arch of the Defence, then the structuring axis of the new city of Cergy-Pontoise. It is about the historic axis of the Parisian west.
It is one of the principal tourist places of Paris. In its inferior part, the avenue is edged of parklands (Marigny square) and of some buildings (Marigny theatre, palace of the Discovery). In its superior part, we find many shops of luxury, a spectacle places (cinema, Lido, Champs-Elysées theatre), also a famous coffees and restaurants (Fouquet's)...

A Champs-Elysées history

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