Pantheon, Paris, France
The Pantheon (from the Greek word Pantheon, meaning all gods) is located in the Latin Quarter. It was originally a church dedicated to Sainte Genevieve, built in 1764 in the neoclassical style, to replace a damaged church dedicated to the same saint and as a way of King Louis XV thanking God after recovering from an illness.
After the French Revolution, the Revolutionist government changed the church into a mausoleum, a place to bury exceptional French people who had died or done something great for France.
Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. (6 p.m. Oct. to Mar.)
Entrance fee: €9
How to go: Cluny la Sorbonne or Cardinal Lemoine metro stations; Luxembourg RER station.
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