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
fantastic space highly recommend visiting this first then paying the visit to saint-chapelle after as with your combined tickets it lets you skip the queue into the chapel and as the line was really long the conciergerie is a must for history buffs and pay for the tablet guide as it really helps to imagine how it look
Very small exhibit but was interesting enough. This is where they imprisoned and tried to death Marie Antoinette. I purchased a skip the line ticket combo with Saint Chapelle so it worked out great for the price. Again not a lot to see and if you skipped this exhibit I wouldn’t say it would ruin your trip.
The huge vaulted hall of this imposing medieval complex is always impressive, but only when I chanced to visit during a heat wave did I realise that it's also one of the literally coolest places in Paris to visit without undue cost to the planet in air-conditioning: a full storey below modern ground level, and all built in stone. The present exhibition on the upper floors traces the course of the French Revolution, rather dispassionately without much by way of context. This leaves the bare facts to suggest something less than glorious (more like collective insanity if you only look to the trajectory of violence as one repressive regime replaced another). That in turn only throws the cell and chapel of Marie Antoinette into high relief: those rooms are the more effective for being understated. Tip: go mid-to-late afternoon, buy the combined ticket with the Sainte-Chapelle, visit the Conciergerie first and plan to be in the chapel for the last hour (summer) or last hour of good light (winter), when the crowds in that relatively small space can actually thin to a trickle.