The Panthéon in Paris

The Panthéon was built as a church between 1764 and 1790. Its huge coupole (right and below from inside) dominates Paris from the top of the Sainte-Geneviève hill on the Seine left bank.

The Panthéon stands at the heart of the Quartier Latin, the lively and intellectual traditional Paris student district, with among other institutions the Sorbonne university and the Collège de France.

The inside of the Panthéon in Paris

During the 1789 french revolution and shortly after its construction, the Panthéon was turned into a memorial to illustrious Frenchmen.

It now hosts among others the remains of Pierre and Marie Curie, the physicists who discovered radioactivity, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo, three famous French writers and philosophers.

The Panthéon stands in the middle of the Panthéon square (Place du Panthéon). It is not far from the Luxembourg metro station on the RER B.

The Pantheon is open from 10am to 5.30pm, 9.30 am to 6.30 pm from April to September. Telephone number 33 (0)1 43 54 34 51.

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