Champs-Élysées

Paris's grand avenue, from the Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, where the Tour ends.

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, 1.9 km long and 70 m wide, running from the Place de la Concorde in the east to the Place Charles de Gaulle and the Arc de Triomphe in the west. It is known for its theatres, cafés and luxury shops, for the Bastille Day military parade, and as the finishing stage of the Tour de France. The name is French for the Elysian Fields, the resting place of dead heroes in Greek mythology, and the avenue forms part of the city's Axe historique. Its lower section, between the Concorde and the Rond-Point, runs through the Jardin des Champs-Élysées, a park holding the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais and the Théâtre Marigny.