Arc de Triomphe

I'll just put it in my pocket and take it home!

The famous street for shopping...Champs Elysees.

Today, Sunday, we visited the Arc de Triomphe. Napoleon had the arch commissioned to commemorate his victory at the battle of Austerlitz. Four years after the arch was finished being built, Napoleon's funeral procession passed beneath it, on its way to his burial in Les Invalides. There are 12 streets that converge at the Arc and it's pretty entertaining to watch all the cars trying to navigate around it. Under the Arc lies the Tomb of the Unknown soldier. Sheila and I climbed 284 steps to get to the top of a spiral staircase to see all of Paris in a 360 degree view. It was breathtaking!