Pantheon
The Pantheon build in the center of the latin-quarter is build as a church but more known as a burial place for famous Frenchmen. Being build after the Pantheon in Rome it looks very familiar from the outside.
Even if you have visited the Pantheon in Rome this is a must see when you are in the latin quarter. Not only does the outside look amazing the inside is decorated with many beautiful paintings and sculptures.
This building was build in order of King Louis XV after recovering from an illness where he would replace an old ruined church dedicated to Sainte-Geneviève with an worthy edifice. Soufflot was charged with the plans to create the Pantheon. Due financial difficulties the Pantheon was completed until after Soufflot’s death in 1789, the beginning of the French Revolution. After the completion of this church it was turned into a burial place for the great men of France by the new French Government. Only the parliament or powerful leaders could grand the privilege to be buried in the Pantheon.
In 1851 physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth by his experiment conducted in the Pantheon, by constructing the 67-meter Foucault’s pendulum beneath the central dome. In the early 1900s it also held the famous thinker of Rodin.
Admission Fees to Pantheon:
| Adults | Youth (<26) | Children (<18) | |
| Visit | 8€ | 5€ | Free |
Opening hours Pantheon
Open every day from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. (last entrance 45min before closing)
Location Pantheon:
Place du Panthéon
75005 Paris
33 / (0)1 44 32 18 0
http://pantheon.monuments-nationaux.fr/
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