Montparnasse Tower
A 210-metre office skyscraper built from 1969 to 1973, still the tallest building in Paris proper. Its open-air terrace at the top gives one of the best views of the city, with the Eiffel Tower in the frame.
- Where
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 48.8421, 2.3220
Get the Montparnasse Tower stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Montparnasse Tower. 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 Montparnasse Tower
Catacombs of Paris 1.2 km
Underground ossuaries in old stone quarries beneath the city, holding the remains of more than six million people. The bones were moved here from the overflowing cemeteries of Paris from the late 18th century, and they are stacked into walls along the dim passages.
Luxembourg Gardens 1.2 km
A formal garden in the 6th arrondissement, laid out for Marie de' Medici around the palace that now houses the French Senate. Parisians come for the chairs by its octagonal pond, its tree-lined walks and the toy sailboats children push across the water.
Musée Rodin 1.5 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.
Les Invalides 1.6 km
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.
Latin Quarter 1.7 km
A district on the Left Bank around the Sorbonne, named for the Latin once spoken by its students. Spread over the 5th and 6th arrondissements, it is a maze of literary shops, cafés and old university buildings.
Panthéon 1.8 km
Built between 1758 and 1790 as a church for Saint Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris, it became a resting place for the nation's great figures. Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Marie Curie lie in the crypt beneath its dome on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève.
Musée d'Orsay 2.0 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.
Shakespeare and Company 2.2 km
A shop of English-language literature on the Left Bank, opened in 1951 by George Whitman across the river from Notre-Dame. Its crammed shelves and reading nooks have long given beds to young writers who help out in the shop.
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Questions
Where is Montparnasse Tower?
Montparnasse Tower is in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Catacombs of Paris (1.2 km), Luxembourg Gardens (1.2 km), Musée Rodin (1.5 km).
How do I get the Montparnasse Tower stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Montparnasse Tower 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 Montparnasse Tower 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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