The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile often simply called Arc de Triomphe, built from 1808 to 1835 on the orders of Napoleon is located in Paris's 8th arrondissement, on the Place de l'Étoile, at the western end Avenue des Champs-Elysées, 2.2 km from Place de la Concorde. 50 meters high, 45 meters wide and 22 meters deep, it is managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux. The height of the large arch is 29.19 meters and 14.62 meters wide. The small vault, meanwhile, measuring 18.68 m high and 8.44 m wide.
The Place de l'Étoile form a huge roundabout twelve avenues breakthroughs in the nineteenth century under the leadership of Baron Haussmann, then prefect of the Seine. These avenues "radiate" the star around the square, including the Avenue Kleber, Avenue de la Grande Armee, the Avenue de Wagram, and of course, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Paving stones of different colors draw on the floor instead of two stars whose peaks reach for one in the middle of the streets, the other between the avenues.
The Place de l'Étoile form a huge roundabout twelve avenues breakthroughs in the nineteenth century under the leadership of Baron Haussmann, then prefect of the Seine. These avenues "radiate" the star around the square, including the Avenue Kleber, Avenue de la Grande Armee, the Avenue de Wagram, and of course, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Paving stones of different colors draw on the floor instead of two stars whose peaks reach for one in the middle of the streets, the other between the avenues.
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