Hauts de Seine Tourisme

It is better to begin with the Museum of the La Defense

This one is in the POINT-INFORMATION DEFENSE (in the centre of the Square) 15, Place de la Défense
The entrance is free and it is opened 7 days a week, even on Sunday from 10 am till 6 pm and till 7 pm on Saturdays ( 01.47.74.84.24 ).

Le Musée de la Défense vous permettra de découvrir au travers de maquettes et de plans le passé d’un site chargé d’histoire et son actualité en perpétuelle évolution.
Guided tours take place every Thursday during the lunchtime (between 12 am and 14 h). Schedule available on the site to www.ladefense.fr
Guided tours for the groups and the school are organized.

Then go on the Square (The Parvis): if you are brave to go towards the Square up to the bow of the ship (seen on the historic axis and there Valley of the Seine) where are the vineyard (first grape harvest in 2010), and the cultural space Raymond MORETTI who welcomes regularly exhibitions of contemporary artists (opened from Monday to Friday of 10:30 am in 19h-Free admission).

It is from here that the visit on foot of the site can start. The best means is to download the tape guide of visit on the site www.ladefense.fr on your mobile MP3

Of a complete duration of 41 mn 37 in 14 stages, the tape guide explains all the main curiosities, the monuments or Tours of the La Defense: Cnit, in the Fountain Agam, of the Big Arc with Notre-Dame of Pentecost.

Testimonies are incorporated into it.

You can naturally begin the visit where you want it and to listen what interests you.
Attention! Looking forward to provision of a park of tape guide, and the absence of cybercafe, it is better necessary to download its own mobile MP3 at home. You can also prepare your visit. The tape guide is nevertheless sold to Espace-Info at the 10€-price.

You also can compose 01.72.93.95.05 (Code 122 000 to visit The La Defense with your mobile)

Guides brochures of the oeuvres of art, architecture, and the history of the site in French, English or Spanish are for sale at the 2€-price  in the Point-information or downloadable free of charge.

We can be also interested in the discovery of the open-air Museum gathering more than 60 works of contemporary artists spread on the site: Calder, Miro, César, Richard Serra...