LA CONCIERGERIE

ARNAQUE!!!
NE PAS PRENDRE BILLET COMBINÉ
Visite horaire 17h30, la conciergerie ferme à 18h. Pourquoi proposer cette horaire si c’est infaisable? En plus de ça, les employés devant ont été plus que désagréables en disant que NOUS étions fautifs, qu’on ne sait pas s’organiser et plus, et le tout sur un ton plus qu’agressif et moqueur. Triste pour notre réputation de parisien…

Visite très intéressante

歷史重現~

After walking across the islands came here. We were stopped prior to entrance by armed police required for Palais de Justice etc. Simply asked where we were going and they let us through once we told them. We both had shoulder bags (not rucksacks- noticed later they were searching other visitors with rucksacks). Bought tickets at door. The ipad thing was ok eventually, but as oldies took us longer to work it out. There is a free small paper guide too. The ipad thing locates u and guides you through the museum. The menus on it aren't great.. no labels on treasure items so had to keep going back& forth to main menu to get to where wanted. Scanning didn't always work. But they are free and provide more succinct details about what you're viewing as you go through the musuem. There is a sort of one way system in parts - which a couple of other tourists didn't get - had to stop them trying to force a no exit door (with a Massive picture on it of no exit!!). Didn't want them to set off some alarm/evacuation or something. There are a few toilet cubicles, which threw the ipad thing when we kept taking pit stops?!! There are some interactive displays. On one, we were looking at the large screen in front & the text/pics were whizzing through v.quickly? Noticed another tourist flicking through a standalone floor screen nearby. She was "swiping left" v. quickly & not able to see the info till we told her to look up at the largeer screen!!! She did a great job of managing the controls once she realised how to use it & we learnt a lot about the prison. No cafe, cafes in vicinity. Was a pleasant experience... but overall (in my opinion) the texts assumed we had some basic knowledge of the French revolution, which I didn't (except for reading "Tale of 2 Cities". Maybe we missed the basics explanation of the background story?? Nevertheless would recommend.

It was once a prison and more specifically, the oldest prison in Paris. Locked in a cramped and damp dungeon, Marie Antoinette, who was the queen of France and wife of Louis XVI spent the last five weeks of her life, fearfully awaiting her execution. At that time more than 4000 prisoners were imprisoned. The queen's dungeon remains the most popular attraction.

For an excellent view of the building's neo-Gothic facade, stand on the north side of the Seine River at the Quai de la Mégisserie. From this distance, with its three round towers and Tour de l'Horloge (Clock Tower), the fortress looks more like a fairytale castle than a penitentiary.

Outside the building, on the corner of the quai de l’Horloge, you will find the first public clock in Paris, which works perfectly, despite the fact that it was created more than six centuries ago in 1370!

Entrance €13.00. Open daily 9.30-18.00.