Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage

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Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage

Herd of elephants at Pinnawala
Date opened	1975
Location	Pinnawala, Kegalle, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka
Coordinates	7°18′2″N 80°23′18″ECoordinates: 7°18′2″N 80°23′18″E
Land area	25 acres (10 ha)
No. of animals	88 (2011)
No. of species	1

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is an orphanage, nursery and captive breeding ground for wild Asian elephants located at Pinnawala village, 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of Kegalle town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. Pinnawala has the largest herd of captive elephants in the world. In 2011, there were 96 elephants, including 43 males and 68 females from 3 generations, living in Pinnawala.^[1]

The orphanage was founded to care and protect the many orphaned unweaned wild elephants found wandering in and near the forests of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1975 by the Sri Lanka Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC).^[2]

History[edit]

Elephants walking to the Maha OyaRiver

The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage was established by the Sri Lankan Department of Wildlife Conservation in 1975 for feeding and providing care and sanctuary to orphaned baby elephants that were found in the wild. The orphanage was located at the Wilpattu National Park, then shifted to the tourist complex at Bentota and then to the Dehiwala Zoo. From the Zoo it was shifted to Pinnawala village on a 25-acre (10 ha) coconut plantation adjacent to the Maha Oya River.

The primary residential care area is on the east side of Highway B199, Rambukkana Road. The main site also has some restaurants and refreshment stands, and management buildings including sleeping sheds and veterinary facilities. The elephant bathing and viewing area along the Oya River is directly opposite on the west side of the highway.^[3][4]

At the time it was settled, the orphanage had five baby elephants which formed its nucleus. The addition of orphans continued till 1995 when the Elephant Transit Home (ETH) adjoining Udawalawe National Park was created by the DWC. Since then, orphaned babies have been taken to the ETH and addition to the Pinnawala herd has been mostly through births occurring there.^[1]

It was planned for the facility to attract local and foreign visitors, the income from which would help to maintain the orphanage. The Pinnawala Orphanage has since become a tourist attraction. In 1978, the orphanage was taken over by the Department of National Zoological Gardens Sri Lanka. In 1982 an elephant breeding program was launched. As of 2012, there were 78 elephants living here.

Visitors to the park can view the care and daily routine of the elephants, such as bottle feeding of elephant calves, feeding of all other elephants, and bathing in the Ma Oya (River).

Elephant care[edit]

The orphanage was established to feed, nurse and house young elephants found abandoned by their mothers. Young elephants sometimes fall into pits and ravines in their quest for water during drought period. Other orphans have been displaced from their wild habitat by development projects or have been found abandoned before weaning, diseased or wounded.^[2]

There are 48 mahouts (handlers) who take care of the elephants. The female and young elephants in Pinnawala range freely as a herd during the day in an area of a few acres. They are herded about .5 km (0.31 mi) twice a day to drink and be bathed in the river. At night, the females are individually chained in stalls. Adult males do some light work such as transporting feed. They are chained and managed individually. Calves born in Pinnawala are not bottle fed, but a few from ETH are kept at Pinnawala and bottle fed as a tourist attraction.^[1]

The elephants are fed in their stalls. There is very little food they can gather from the premises of the orphanage except some grass. Large quantities of jackfruit, coconut, kitul (sugar palm), tamarind and grass, brought in daily, form the bulk of the elephants food.^[5] Each adult animal is given around 250 kilograms (550 lb) of this green matter per day and around 2 kg (4.4 lb) from a food bag containing rice bran and maize.^[2]

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  Tourists observing elephants bathing in Oya River
 
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  Baby elephants with their mothers at Pinnawala
 
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  Blind tusker "RAJA" at Pinnawala
 
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  A young elephant at Pinnawala

Elephant breeding[edit]

This elephant orphanage conducts captive breeding of some elephants in its care. The natural environment and healthy care and feeding at Pinnawala made the elephant breeding program a success. The first birth at Pinnawala was in 1984, Sukumalee, a female was born to Vijaya and Kumar who were aged 21 and 20 years respectively at the time. The males Vijaya and Neela and females Kumari, Anusha, Mathalie and Komali have since then parented several baby elephants. More than twenty-three elephants were born from 1984 to 1991. In 1998 there were fourteen births at Pinnawala, eight males and six females, with one second generation birth in early 1998. Since then till 2nd of July 2015 , 70 more were born at Pinnawala.^[2][6]

12 elephants were released to temples and private owners since June, 2011. Shama (female, aged 24), Lasanda (female, aged 18), Mihindu (male, aged 13), Haritha (male, aged 10 years), Atlas (male, aged seven), Charaka (male, aged five), Asela (male aged 8), Tharindu (male aged 5), Wasana (male aged 11), Arjuna (male aged 14) and Vishwa (male aged 5) were among those.^[6]

Animal welfare[edit]

Pulling an elephant to a desired place is a heavy job...

Most of the elephants at Pinnawala are healthy and once attaining adulthood, will be retained within the facility mostly since they have become dependent on supplied food. A few disabled elephants are given residential care. One tusker, Raja is blind, and one female, named Sama, lost her front right leg to a land mine.

Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage was the subject of a 2010 report by the Born Free Foundation which called into question animal welfare at the orphanage.^[3]

Quality of care of elephants who are donated from Pinnawala has been a big public issue. In 2012 The Sri Lanka Environment Trust spoke out against authorities who continue to 'donate' tamed elephants to people who had 'poor' past records of taking care of animals. "There are enough cases to show that the authorities are releasing elephants from Pinnawala to the same group of people who don't take care of the animals." Despite these accusations it is proven that the surveillance is done by the fact that four of such donated elephants by presidential decree being returned to the elephant by a court order.^[6]

Hints & tips

• please visit official website for more information like Feeding time and bath times
• http://nationalzoo.gov.lk/elephantorphanage/

Disclaimer

The above comments are based on my personal travel experiences to this particular location in summer months. Your experience may vary due to weather and traffic.

My trips were not sponsored by any of the authorities and my comments are not biased or representing any views of governing bodies.

History and information extracted from Wikipedia and photos were selected from Google images and all rights reserved with original owners.

This is only for an informational purpose. Not for commercial use.

Note.

Hope you will enjoy your visit. Please make your comments, suggestions & travel questions. I am happy to provide information on my earliest convenience & update the post accordingly.

Cabot trail

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The Cabot Trail viewed from the Skyline Trail

View of the commercial and residential establishments that exist at Pleasant Bay, along the Cabot Trail's northern-most segment

The Cabot Trail is a highway and scenic roadway in northern Victoria County and Inverness County on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.

The route measures 298 km (185 mi) in length and completes a loop around the northern tip of the island, passing along and through the Cape Breton Highlands. It is named after the explorer John Cabot who landed in Atlantic Canada in 1497, although most historians agree his landfall likely took place in Newfoundland and not Cape Breton Island. (Premier Angus L. MacDonaldattempted to re-brand Nova Scotia for tourism purposes as primarily Scottish and, as part of this effort, created both the names Cape Breton Highlands and Cabot Trail.)^[1] Construction of the initial route was completed in 1932.

Its northern section of the Cabot Trail passes through Cape Breton Highlands National Park. The western and eastern sections follow the rugged coastline, with views of the ocean. The southwestern section passes through the Margaree River valley before passing along Bras d'Or Lake.

This trail is the only trunk secondary highway in Nova Scotia which does not have a signed route designation. Road signs along the route instead have a unique mountain logo.^{[citation needed]}

The road is internally referred to by the Department of Transportation and Public Works as Trunk 30. The Trunk 30 road named the "Cabot Trail" loops from Exit 7 on Nova Scotia Highway 105 at Buckwheat Corner to Exit 11 on Highway 105 at South Haven. The scenic travelway known as the "Cabot Trail" includes all of Trunk 30, as well as the portion of Highway 105 between exits 7 and 11.

The entire route is open year-round.

Communities[edit]

Sunrise Valley, Cape North in 2010.

• Baddeck, the gateway to the Cabot Trail and the location of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site.
• St. Anns, home of the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts.
• Ingonish, a fishing village and one of the first areas settled on Cape Breton and home to the Keltic Lodge resort, it is the eastern entrance to Cape Breton Highlands National Park. It is also home to Cape Smokey Provincial Park and the Broad Cove Campground.
• Belle Cote, a small fishing village located at the mouth of the Margaree River where it flows into the Gulf of St Lawrence, marks the traditional boundary of the Scottish settlements to the south and the Acadian villages to the north that are located on the western side of Cape Breton Island.
• Chéticamp, an Acadian fishing village known for its hooked rugs and fiddle music, it is the western entrance to Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
• Pleasant Bay, Halfway Destination on the Cabot Trail, known as the whale watching capital of Cape Breton.^{[citation needed]}
• Dingwall, a small fishing village located in the highlands of Cape Breton Island.
• Cape North, the northernmost point of the Cabot Trail and home of the North Highlands Community Museum and the Arts North Gallery of Cape Breton Crafts.

Hints & Tips

• Start from Town Baddeck and drive the trail clockwise.
• Rated as one of the best scenic routes in the world. Specially fall colour changing season.
• Make sure you have fill the Gas tank and have food & drinks since there is only one small village in the trail.
• The Cape breton highlands national park pass valid for 2 days. so if you want you can come back
• The park has lots of trails and campsites please refer website for more details.

https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ns/cbreton/decouvrir-discover/environ/eco

Disclaimer

The above comments are based on my personal travel experiences to this particular location in summer months. Your experience may vary due to weather and traffic.

My trips were not sponsored by any of the authorities and my comments are not biased or representing any views of governing bodies.

History and information extracted from Wikipedia and photos were selected from Google images and all rights reserved with original owners.

This is only for an informational purpose. Not for commercial use.

Note.

Hope you will enjoy your visit. Please make your comments, suggestions & travel questions. I am happy to provide information on my earliest convenience & update the post accordingly.

Arc de Triomphe , Paris

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Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe in western Paris
Location within Paris
Alternative names	Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile
General information
Type	Triumphal Arch
Architectural style	Neoclassicism
Location	Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly Place de l'Étoile)
Coordinates	48.8738°N 2.2950°ECoordinates: 48.8738°N 2.2950°E
Construction started	15 August 1806[1]
Inaugurated	29 July 1836[2]
Height	50 m (164 ft)
Dimensions
Other dimensions	Wide: 45 m (148 ft) Deep: 22 m (72 ft)
Design and construction
Architect	Jean Chalgrin, Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (French pronunciation: [aʁk də tʁijɔ̃f də letwal] (listen), Triumphal Arch of the Star) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile — the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues. The location of the arc and the plaza is shared between three arrondissements, 16th (south and west), 17th (north), and 8th (east).

The Arc de Triomphe should not be confused with a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre. The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.

As the central cohesive element of the Axe historique (historic axis, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pits heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments with triumphant patriotic messages.

Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Italy, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 metres (164 ft), width of 45 m (148 ft), and depth of 22 m (72 ft), while its large vault is 29.19 m (95.8 ft) high and 14.62 m (48.0 ft) wide. The smaller transverse vaults are 18.68 m (61.3 ft) high and 8.44 m (27.7 ft) wide. Three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 (marking the end of hostilities in World War I), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuportbiplane under the arch's primary vault, with the event captured on newsreel.^[3][4][5]

Paris's Arc de Triomphe was the tallest triumphal arch until the completion of the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City in 1938, which is 67 metres (220 ft) high. The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982, is modelled on the Arc de Triomphe and is slightly taller at 60 m (197 ft). La Grande Arche in La Defense near Paris is 110 metres high. Although it is not named an Arc de Triomphe, it has been designed on the same model and in the perspective of the Arc de Triomphe. It qualifies as the world's tallest arch. ^[6]

History

A colourised aerial photograph of the southern side (published in 1921)

Free French forces on parade after the liberation of Paris (1944)

Arc de Triomphe. Postcard, c.1920

The Arc is located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues. It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes. Laying the foundations alone took two years and, in 1810, when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with his bride Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, he had a wooden mock-up of the completed arch constructed. The architect, Jean Chalgrin, died in 1811 and the work was taken over by Jean-Nicolas Huyot. During the Bourbon Restoration, construction was halted and it would not be completed until the reign of King Louis-Philippe, between 1833 and 1836, by the architects Goust, then Huyot, under the direction of Héricart de Thury. On 15 December 1840, brought back to France from Saint Helena, Napoleon's remains passed under it on their way to the Emperor's final resting place at the Invalides.^[7] Prior to burial in the Panthéon, the body of Victor Hugo was displayed under the Arc during the night of 22 May 1885.

The sword carried by the Republic in the Marseillaise relief broke off on the day, it is said, that the Battle of Verdun began in 1916. The relief was immediately hidden by tarpaulins to conceal the accident and avoid any undesired ominous interpretations.^[8] On 7 August 1919, Charles Godefroy successfully flew his biplane under the Arc.^[9] Jean Navarre was the pilot who was tasked to make the flight, but he died on 10 July 1919 when he crashed near Villacoublay while training for the flight.

Following its construction, the Arc de Triomphe became the rallying point of French troops parading after successful military campaigns and for the annual Bastille Day Military Parade. Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944^[10] and 1945. A United States postage stamp of 1945 shows the Arc de Triomphe in the background as victorious American troops march down the Champs-Élysées and U.S. airplanes fly overhead on 29 August 1944. After the interment of the Unknown Soldier, however, all military parades (including the aforementioned post-1919) have avoided marching through the actual arch. The route taken is up to the arch and then around its side, out of respect for the tomb and its symbolism. Both Hitler in 1940 and de Gaulle in 1944 observed this custom.

By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965–1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.

In the prolongation of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, a new arch, the Grande Arche de la Défense, was built in 1982, completing the line of monuments that forms Paris's Axe historique. After the Arc de Triomphe du Carrouseland the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, the Grande Arche is the third arch built on the same perspective.

In 1995, the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria placed a bomb near the Arc de Triomphe which wounded 17 people as part of a campaign of bombings.^[11]

In late 2018, the Arc de Triomphe suffered acts of vandalism and graffiti as part of the Yellow vests movement protests.^[12]

Design

Avenues radiate from the Arc de Triomphe in Place Charles de Gaulle, the former Place de l'Étoile.

The Arc de Triomphe is located on Paris's Axe historique, a long perspective that runs from the Louvreto the Grande Arche de la Défense.

Arc de triomphe 1989

The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin (1739–1811), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture (see, for example, the triumphal Arch of Titus). Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot; François Rude; Antoine Étex; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire. The main sculptures are not integral friezes but are treated as independent trophies applied to the vast ashlar masonry masses, not unlike the gilt-bronze appliqués on Empire furniture. The four sculptural groups at the base of the Arc are The Triumph of 1810 (Cortot), Resistance and Peace (both by Antoine Étex) and the most renowned of them all, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 commonly called La Marseillaise (François Rude). The face of the allegorical representation of France calling forth her people on this last was used as the belt buckle for the honorary rank of Marshal of France. Since the fall of Napoleon (1815), the sculpture representing Peace is interpreted as commemorating the Peace of 1815.

In the attic above the richly sculptured frieze of soldiers are 30 shields engraved with the names of major French victories in the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars.^[13] The inside walls of the monument list the names of 660 people, among which are 558 French generals of the First French Empire;^[14] The names of those generals killed in battle are underlined. Also inscribed, on the shorter sides of the four supporting columns, are the names of the major French victories in the Napoleonic Wars. The battles that took place in the period between the departure of Napoleon from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo are not included.

For four years from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière topped the arch. Titled Le triomphe de la Révolution ("The Triumph of the Revolution"), it depicted a chariot drawn by horses preparing "to crush Anarchy and Despotism". It remained there only four years before falling in ruins.

Inside the monument, a permanent exhibition conceived by the artist Maurice Benayoun and the architect Christophe Girault opened in February 2007.^[15] The steel and new media installation interrogates the symbolism of the national monument, questioning the balance of its symbolic message during the last two centuries, oscillating between war and peace.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe, Paris

Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. Interred on Armistice Day 1920,^[16] it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins' fire was extinguished in the fourth century. It burns in memory of the dead who were never identified (now in both world wars).

A ceremony is held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier every 11 November on the anniversary of the armistice signed by the Entente Powers and Germany in 1918. It was originally decided on 12 November 1919 to bury the unknown soldier's remains in the Panthéon, but a public letter-writing campaign led to the decision to bury him beneath the Arc de Triomphe. The coffin was put in the chapel on the first floor of the Arc on 10 November 1920, and put in its final resting place on 28 January 1921. The slab on top bears the inscription ICI REPOSE UN SOLDAT FRANÇAIS MORT POUR LA PATRIE 1914–1918 ("Here lies a French soldier who died for the fatherland 1914–1918").

In 1961, American President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by French President Charles de Gaulle. After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. President Charles de Gaulle went to Washington to attend the state funeral, and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy lighting the eternal flame that had been inspired by her visit to France.

Details

• The four main sculptural groups on each of the Arc's pillars are:
  • Le Départ de 1792 (or La Marseillaise), by François Rude. The sculptural group celebrates the cause of the French First Republic during the 10 August uprising. Above the volunteers is the winged personification of Liberty. This group served as a recruitment tool in the early months of World War I and encouraged the French to invest in war loans in 1915–16.^[17]
  • Le Triomphe de 1810, by Jean-Pierre Cortot celebrates the Treaty of Schönbrunn. This group features Napoleon, crowned by the goddess of Victory.
  • La Résistance de 1814, by Antoine Étex commemorates the French resistance to the Allied armies during the War of the Sixth Coalition.
  • La Paix de 1815, by Antoine Étex commemorates the Treaty of Paris, concluded in that year.

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  Le Départ de 1792(La Marseillaise)
 
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  Le Triomphe de 1810
 
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  La Résistance de 1814
 
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  La Paix de 1815

• Six reliefs sculpted on the façades of the Arch, representing important moments of the French Revolution and of the Napoleonic era include:
  • Les funérailles du général Marceau (General Marceau's burial), by P. H. Lamaire (SOUTH façade, right),
  • La bataille d'Aboukir (The Battle of Aboukir), by Bernard Seurre (SOUTH façade, left),
  • La bataille de Jemappes (The Battle of Jemappes), by Carlo Marochetti (EAST façade),
  • Le passage du pont d'Arcole (The Battle of Arcole), by J. J. Feuchère (NORTH façade, right),
  • La prise d'Alexandrie, (The Fall of Alexandria), by J. E. Chaponnière (NORTH façade, left),
  • La bataille d'Austerlitz (The Battle of Austerlitz), by J. F. T. Gechter (WEST façade),

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  Les funérailles du général Marceau, 20 September 1796
 
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  La bataille d'Aboukir,
  25 July 1799
 
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  La bataille de Jemmappes,
  6 November 1792
 
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  Le passage du pont d'Arcole,
  15 November 1796
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  La prise d'Alexandrie,
  3 July 1798
 
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  La bataille d'Austerlitz,
  2 December 1805

• The names of some great battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are engraved on the attic, including

• A list of French victories is engraved under the great arches on the inside façades of the monument.

• On the inner façades of the small arches are engraved the names of the military leaders of the French Revolution and Empire. The names of those who died on the battlefield are underlined.

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  NORTH pillar
 
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  SOUTH pillar
 
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  EAST pillar
 
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  WEST pillar

• The great arcades are decorated with allegorical figures representing characters in Roman mythology (by J. Pradier).

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• The ceiling with 21 sculpted roses

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• Interior of the Arc de Triomphe

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  First World Warmonument
 
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  Permanent exhibition about the design of the Arch

• There are several plaques at the foot of the monument

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  De Gaulle speech plaque
 
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  Proclamation of Republic plaque

Access

The Arc de Triomphe during the World War I centenary celebrations on November 11, 2018

The Arc de Triomphe is accessible by the RER and Métro, with exit at the Charles de Gaulle—Étoile station. Because of heavy traffic on the roundabout of which the Arc is the centre, it is recommended that pedestrians use one of two underpasses located at the Champs Élysées and the Avenue de la Grande Armée. A lift will take visitors almost to the top – to the attic, where there is a small museum which contains large models of the Arc and tells its story from the time of its construction. Another 46 steps remain to climb in order to reach the top, the terrasse, from where one can enjoy a panoramic view of Paris.^{[citation needed]}

The location of the arc, as well as the Place de l'Étoile, is shared between three arrondissements, 16th (south and west), 17th (north), and 8th (east).

Paris seen from the top of the Arc de triomphe

Hints & tips

• Dont rush to see it. take time and watch carefully.
• Go through history to have a Better understanding about Why, How and effort Napolean done to make this happen
• Good for seen through champs-elysees in the night

Disclaimer

The above comments are based on my personal travel experiences to this particular location in summer months. Your experience may vary due to weather and traffic.

My trips were not sponsored by any of the authorities and my comments are not biased or representing any views of governing bodies.

History and information extracted from Wikipedia and photos were selected from Google images and all rights reserved with original owners.

This is only for an informational purpose. Not for commercial use.

Note.

Hope you will enjoy your visit. Please make your comments, suggestions & travel questions. I am happy to provide information on my earliest convenience & update the post accordingly.