Les champs elysees?

Question

when was it built in years

by who:

and three interesting facts about the monument

Answer 1

The Champs-Élysées (pronounced [ʃɑ̃zeliˈze] audio (help·info)) is the most prestigious and broadest avenue in Paris. Its full name is "Avenue des Champs-Élysées". With its cinemas, cafés, and luxury specialty shops, the Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world, and with rents as high as $1.25 million a year for 1,000 square feet (100 m²) of space, it remains the 2nd most expensive strip of real estate in the world (the first in Europe) after New York City's Fifth Avenue.[1] The name refers to the Elysian Fields, the place of the blessed in Greek mythology.

The Champs-Élysées is known in France as La plus belle avenue du monde ("The most beautiful avenue in the world"). The arrival of global chain stores in recent years has slightly changed the character of the avenue, and in a first effort to stem these changes, the Paris City government (which has called this "banalization") decided in 2007 to ban the Swedish clothing chain H&M from opening a store on the avenue.

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Answer 2

The Champs-Elysées has its origin in a a path built by Marie de Medici in 1616 to provide a place to stroll or ride from the Tuilleries Palace. (The Palace was destroyed in 1871).

I take it that the monument you are asking about is the Arc de Triomphe which stands at the northwestern end of the modern day Champs-Elysées. It was ordered constructed in 1806 by Napoleon Bonaparte to celebrate his victories.

Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from the First World War. there is also a plaque which commemorates the American troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force.  

There is an eternal flame burning here which is usually said to have been the first such flame constructed in Europe since the Vestal Virgins' fire in Rome was extinguished in the year 391.

Answer 3

It was built by Marie of Medicis in 1616 who decided to have a long lane bordered with trees. Before that it was only fields.

In 1667 the garden architect Le Notre made it longer to reach the Tuileries gardens, planting trees along the rest of the way. It was named the Champs Elysees in 1709. It reached what is now the called l'Etoile roundabout in 1724, and the Seine river at the beginning of the 19th century. But not long after it was decided to restrict it to its actual limits, from Etoile to the Tuileries garden. The other side going to the Seine is called Avenue de la Grande Armee.

In 1806 an Arc of Triumph was built at the Etoile roundabout, in such a way that the sun comes down between its legs twice a year (around the 10th of May and the 1st of August) when you stand on the Champs Elysees side. In 1809 another arc, the arc of the Carousel, was built at the other end by the Tuileries to celebrate the victory of Austerlitz, you can see the whole Champs Elysees and the Arc of Triumph of l'Etoile between its legs.

In 1828 the first city sidewalks were built on the Champs Elysees.

Answer 4

One of my favorite computer games is "Travelogue 360 Paris" [you can play it for free, 1 hour, in Big Fish Games.com].

You actually feel like you are on the Champs Elysees! I love it!

Answer 5

1st its a road! Not a monument.... and the monument on the road is arc de triumpe. And it is in Paris. Things on the road. Harley davidson, the lambo store. Disney. Louis Vuitton, Mc. Donalds. And lots more. Also the round about going around the arc. This is where the Tour d France ends....