Overview:
Use a combined ticket to gain entrance to both the Conciergerie and Sainte-Chapelle. Explore the stunning architecture and illustrious cultural history of these two special places.
Highlights
- Learn about medieval Paris by seeing the beautiful Conciergerie, where you can also view the stunning architecture of the revolutionary court and the jail where Marie Antoinette is said to have been imprisoned.
- Visit the tombs of French Revolution heroes while admiring Gothic buildings from the 14th century, prison cells, and dungeons.
- Admire the Gothic architecture and magnificent 13th-century stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle at your own pace.
- Learn more about the precious artifacts and relics stored here in the past, including the Crown of Thorns and the Image of Edessa
After seeing Saint Chapelle we decide to stop into the Conciergerie. Impressive architecture as well as new structure that was built inside replicating the re direction of water from the Siene. Very insightful history of the conciergerie.
I have walked by and boated by the Conciergerie many times over the past 30 years but never took the time to go in. On my recent visit, decided to do the combined ticket with it and La Sainte Chapelle and thoroughly enjoyed both. It doesn't take long to do the self guided tour and we arrived about an hour after opening mid-week so didn't have to wait long in line. The bookstore has some fun things to purchase as well.
If you have time, make sure you visit this place while in Paris. It is located right along the Seine and looks like a medieval castle - which I believe it originally was. You can see where Marie Anoinette was held before she was executed. It is now a chapel. This is a very interesting place!