Isometric Paris
Isometric Paris shows the heart of the city the way an old city-builder game would: from the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in the west to Père Lachaise in the east, and from Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre down to the Tour Montparnasse and the Panthéon. Drag to explore and zoom in to single streets and courtyards.
Streets, parks and every building footprint come from OpenStreetMap, where about two in three buildings on this map have a mapped height or number of floors. Those are drawn at their real height; the rest get an estimated four to seven floors, which is close to the typical Haussmann block. The Eiffel Tower is mapped too coarsely to draw from the data, so it was modelled by hand from its published dimensions: a 125 m base, platforms at 57.6 m, 115.7 m and 276 m, and 330 m to the tip.
Places on the map
- 1889 · 330 m
- Built by Gustave Eiffel’s company for the 1889 World’s Fair, the wrought-iron tower was the tallest structure in the world until 1930. Platforms at 57 m, 116 m and 276 m; every evening it is lit gold and sparkles for a few minutes on the hour. Wikipedia ↗
- 1806–1836 · 50 m
- Commissioned by Napoleon after the victory at Austerlitz. Twelve avenues meet at the Étoile around it, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has lain beneath the arch since 1921. Wikipedia ↗
- 1875–1914 · Montmartre
- The white basilica on the butte of Montmartre, the highest point in Paris. Its travertine stone releases calcite when it rains, which keeps it white. Wikipedia ↗
- begun 1163 · Île de la Cité
- The Gothic cathedral on the island where Paris began. Fire destroyed its roof and spire in April 2019; restored, it reopened in December 2024 with a new 96 m spire. Wikipedia ↗
- museum since 1793
- A royal palace turned into the world’s most visited museum, home of the Mona Lisa. I. M. Pei’s glass pyramid, 21.6 m high, became its entrance in 1989. Wikipedia ↗
- 1973 · 210 m
- The only skyscraper in central Paris. Its arrival was so unpopular that new buildings in the city centre were soon limited in height, which is why Paris stays so even. Wikipedia ↗
- 1758–1790
- Begun as the church of Sainte-Geneviève, now the resting place of great French citizens such as Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Marie Curie. Foucault demonstrated the Earth’s rotation with a pendulum under its dome in 1851. Wikipedia ↗
- 1670s · Louis XIV
- Built by Louis XIV as a home and hospital for wounded soldiers. The golden dome rises over the tomb of Napoleon; the complex also holds France’s army museum. Wikipedia ↗
- 1875 · Charles Garnier
- The opulent opera house of the Second Empire, with a Chagall ceiling from 1964. It is the setting of Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera. Wikipedia ↗
- 1977 · Piano & Rogers
- The inside-out museum of modern art: its pipes, ducts and escalators run on the outside, colour-coded by what they carry. Wikipedia ↗
- 14 July 1789
- The square where the Bastille fortress was stormed at the start of the French Revolution. The July Column in the middle commemorates the revolution of 1830. Wikipedia ↗
- 1804 · cemetery
- The largest cemetery in Paris and one of the most visited in the world, with the graves of Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf and Jim Morrison. Wikipedia ↗
- railway station
- Europe’s busiest railway station, where Eurostar trains leave for London and Brussels. Wikipedia ↗
- 1612 · Marie de’ Medici
- The garden of the Luxembourg Palace, which houses the French Senate. Known for its chairs around the octagonal pond and its toy sailboats. Wikipedia ↗
- about 1.9 km
- The avenue from the Place de la Concorde up to the Arc de Triomphe, where the Tour de France finishes and national parades are held. Wikipedia ↗
- 1889 · Pigalle
- The cabaret with the red windmill at the foot of Montmartre, birthplace of the modern can-can. Wikipedia ↗
- 1664 · André Le Nôtre
- The formal garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde, once the garden of the Tuileries Palace, which burned in 1871. Wikipedia ↗
- largest square in Paris
- Where Louis XVI was guillotined in 1793. At its centre stands the Luxor Obelisk, over 3,000 years old, a gift from Egypt raised here in 1836. Wikipedia ↗
- city hall
- The seat of the city of Paris. Burned during the Commune in 1871, it was rebuilt in neo-Renaissance style by 1892. Wikipedia ↗
- 1900 · World’s Fair
- Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, with one of the largest glass and steel roofs of its time over its great nave. Wikipedia ↗
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