Les Invalides
A vast complex founded by Louis XIV as a home for old and wounded soldiers, which still houses veterans alongside the Musée de l'Armée. Its gilded dome rises over the tomb of Napoleon, one of the great landmarks of the Left Bank.
- Where
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 48.8550, 2.3125
Get the Les Invalides stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Les Invalides. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Île-de-France volume with your photos and a note.
Near Les Invalides
Musée Rodin 0.2 km
A museum in the Hôtel Biron, the mansion where Auguste Rodin worked, opened in 1919 to show his sculpture. The Thinker and The Gates of Hell stand in its rose garden, and the collection runs to 6,600 sculptures and thousands of drawings.
Pont Alexandre III 1.0 km
The most ornate bridge in Paris, a single steel arch across the Seine with gilded statues on tall pillars at each end. It links the Champs-Élysées quarter with the Invalides, and its lamps and cherubs make it a favourite place for photographs.
Musée d'Orsay 1.2 km
A museum in a Beaux-Arts railway station on the Left Bank, built from 1898 to 1900 and opened as a museum in 1986. It holds the world's largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, from Monet and Renoir to Degas, Cézanne and van Gogh.
Musée de l'Orangerie 1.2 km
A gallery in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden, best known as the permanent home of Claude Monet's eight great Water Lilies murals, hung in two oval rooms. Downstairs are works by Cézanne, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso and Renoir.
Musée du Quai Branly 1.3 km
A museum by Jean Nouvel devoted to the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Of its more than a million objects about 3,500 are on show at any time, and one of its outer walls is a living garden of plants beside the Seine.
Place de la Concorde 1.3 km
The largest square in Paris, 7.6 hectares at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées. At its centre stands an Egyptian obelisk from Luxor, more than 3,000 years old, flanked by two grand fountains.
Eiffel Tower 1.4 km
A wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars, built by Gustave Eiffel's company between 1887 and 1889 for the World's Fair. Meant to stand for only twenty years, it became the outline of Paris itself, and its top floor looks out over the whole city and the Seine.
Tuileries Garden 1.4 km
A public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde, created by Catherine de' Medici in 1564 for a palace that no longer stands. Opened to the public in 1667, it has been a place for Parisians to stroll, meet and sit by its fountains ever since.
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Questions
Where is Les Invalides?
Les Invalides is in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Musée Rodin (0.2 km), Pont Alexandre III (1.0 km), Musée d'Orsay (1.2 km).
How do I get the Les Invalides stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Les Invalides and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Île-de-France volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Les Invalides before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Île-de-France volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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