The Place de la Concorde.
Located between the Champs-Elysées and the Tuileries Gardens, it is one of the most representative squares in Paris and the second largest in France, after Quinconces, in Bordeaux.
Built between 1757 and 1779 under the name of Place Louis XV, in 1792 it was renamed the Revolution Square and converted into the place where the guillotine was installed, sobering instrument of the revolutionaries who became 'blade' to hundreds of people, first aristocrats, bourgeois and kings (Louis XVI Y Marie Antoinette were guillotined here) ; later all kinds of citizens during the Terror, and finally some of the New Regime's own brains, who stopped wearing hats. One of these sharp machines can be seen today in a Left Bank jazz bar, The Guillotine Pub (52, Rue Galande).
The Obelisk of Luxor It was erected in 1836 in the center of the square, in the face of great expectation for its beautiful and exotic profile and, above all, for being a totally aseptic monument that guaranteed not to arouse the insights of the revolutionaries or the monarchists.
In 1846 parallel to the Obelisk of Luxor two monumental fountains in which tritons, sirens and sea gods appear. A symbol of the seas , the closest to the Seine, and the other from the rivers , focused on rue Royale.
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Address: Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris See map
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