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In 2015 Milène Guermont's monumental interactive sculpture PHARES [28] was displayed next to the obelisk for several months, where it was designed to illuminate the obelisk. August 28, 2024 Place de la Concorde in Paris, France was the stage for the Paralympic Opening Ceremony with the western Luxor Obelisk center stage of the venue.
The centrepiece of the Place de la Concorde is an ancient Egyptian obelisk decorated with hieroglyphics exalting the reign of the pharaoh Ramesses II. It is one of two which the Egyptian government gave to the French in the 19th century. The other one stayed in Egypt, too difficult and heavy to move to France with the technology at that time.
One of the two Luxor Obelisks, on the Place de la Concorde in Paris; a red granite monolithic column, 23 metres (75 feet) high, including the base, which weighs over 250 metric tons (280 short tons). Lateran Obelisk in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome.
The international transportation of Egyptian obelisks dates to the Roman conquest of Egypt following the death of Cleopatra, and in modern times as Egyptian "gifts" to other major cities such as the Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, and the Cleopatra's Needles on the Victoria Embankment and in Central Park in London and New ...
English: Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. Français : Obélisque de Louxor à la Place de la Concorde à Paris en France. Date:
Usually the Place de la Concorde is a busy traffic intersection. But for these Games it has been converted into a sprawling urban park, hosting not only breaking, but skateboarding, BMX and 3x3 ...
The avenue runs for 1.91 km (1.19 mi) through the 8th arrondissement in northwestern Paris, from the Place de la Concorde in the east, with the Obelisk of Luxor, [2] to the Place Charles de Gaulle (formerly the Place de l'Étoile) in the west, location of the Arc de Triomphe. The Champs-Élysées forms part of the Axe historique.
His chief contribution to the monuments of Paris was the completion in 1836 of the Place de la Concorde, which was further embellished on 25 October 1836 by the placement of the Luxor Obelisk. In the same year, at the other end of the Champs-Élysées, Louis-Philippe completed and dedicated the Arc de Triomphe, which had been begun by Napoleon I.