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Panthéon
A domed neoclassical temple where France honors its great men and women, from Voltaire and Hugo to Marie Curie.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Place du Panthéon, 75005 ParisDirections
- Getting There
- Luxembourg station (RER B), or Cardinal Lemoine (Metro line 10).
Why Go
Built as a church in the 18th century and turned into a national mausoleum during the Revolution, it holds the tombs of Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and Marie Curie.
A copy of Foucault's pendulum, which proved the earth's rotation here in 1851, swings under the dome.
Nearby in Paris
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