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Park with fountains and large children's playground.
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Église Notre Dame de Pitié
Built in the 1920s, it is no match for the Notre Dame de Paris in either historical importance or architectural detailing, but it can be an interesting destination for those interested in sacral architecture.
The expansive, calm park around a lake extends westwards behind the Tours Aillaud, and is to La Défense what Central Park is to Downtown Manhattan. You can take spectacular pictures of the skyline juxtaposed against the park's greenery from there.
A domed stadium near the Grande Arche. It opened in October 2017, and its main tenant is the rugby union club Racing 92. The facility can host everything from court sports to concerts, with configurations ranging from 10,000 for court sports, 32,000 for rugby, and 40,000 for concerts. It hosted gymnastics events during the 2024 Summer Olympics
South-west from the Grande Arche you can find these tall cylindrical concrete residential towers, painted in various colours. Representing a 1970s urbanistic experiment, the 18 towers remain controversial and unique, and continue to house thousands of inhabitants in over 1600 apartments.
A high-rise building that looks more like a hollow cube than an actual arch. The viewing platform on its top closed due to a 2010 elevator incident, reopened in May 2017, and is open as of October 2025 after another closure..
CNIT
The largest unsupported concrete span enclosed space in the world. Houses shops and offices, ESSEC Business School campus and a Hilton hotel.