Jeux d'été - 2024
Instead of watching next year’s Olympic games from a TV screen, check off both Paris and the Olympics from your travel bucket list.
The Paris Olympic organizers audaciously pledged to display the City of Art throughout the 2024 games.
Weaving events into iconic Parisian sites like the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées. Even the Seine River and its many bridges will play a key role in the event.
With culturally immersive venues, visiting Paris during the XXXIII Olympic Summer Games attendees need not decide whether to prioritize sightseeing or viewing the activities.
Le Tour d’ Eiffel
Très magnifique! Imagine two breathtaking views in one as you enjoy a game of high-intensity Beach Volleyball against the evocative Eiffel Tower in the background. Witness Team USA’s Kelly Cheng and Sarah Hughes volley to the number one spot at the grand Champs de Mar venue.
Follow up the world’s best sports competitions with high-class fashion on Rue Saint Dominique. Just past this street, the Dior Museum takes you from Christian Dior’s timeless designs from the 1940s to modern red carpet chic.
Just beyond the Eiffel Tower, walk four minutes to Les Invalides. The block holds mausoleums, museums, and monuments that are reminiscent of France’s complicated war history.
Château de Versailles:
The famous former Palace of the Louis XIV will be home to the equestrian events and the modern day pentathlon that will be set up in an outdoor arena in the heart of the palace gardens.
It will also host part of the route of one of the Olympics key events, the Olympic Marathon. Beginning in Central Paris’ Hotel de Ville and finishing at the Esplanade of the Les Invalides, the route includes Versailles and was designed to pay homage to the Women’s March on the French capital in 1789.
During the French Revolution, marketplace women stormed to the steps of the palace to protest the high price of bread. Next summer, you can line up along Versailles’ high palace walls to watch Team USA outpace other countries running the 26.2-mile route.
Once the gold as been secured, you’ll have the rest of the day to explore through the enormous and gilded 17th-century palace grounds.
You won’t want to miss a stroll through the thoughtfully designed gardens or a romantic rowing trip along the Grand Canal.
New for this Olympic games, recreational athletes can live out their dream of running the Olympic by joining the Marathon Pour Tous in the footsteps of gold medal athletes from around the world.
Place de la Concorde
Once the beheading spot of the last French Monarchs, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the historic Place de la Concorde will be hosting breakdancing, skateboarding, BMX freestyle, basketball and other new urban youth sports.
Watch dancers bust a move for the metal by breaking, a street dance that originated from Black and Puerto Rican communities in New York City.
Steps away from these hip sports competitions are the beloved Jardin des Tuileries. Walk through blooming gardens and Greco-Roman statues until you reach the home of the Mona Lisa, the Louvre.
If you fancy 19th-century, impressionist pieces, cross the Seine and visit the Musee d’Orsay.
Later in the evening return to Concorde Urban Park where you will find demonstrations and entertainment going late into the night.
Montmarte
Cycling fans will have a number of quintessential Parisian spots to choose to watch the race but witnessing these Olympic athletes climb up the narrow Butte Montmartre is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Cyclers will go up Montmartre Hill three times, on one of the longest routes in Olympic history, before crossing the finish line across from the Eiffel Tower.
The highest point in Paris is known for its cobblestoned streets, charming cafés, and art scene. It is easy to spend more than a day getting lost in the quaint village of Montmarte.
While you are hear, pay a visit to Sacre Coeur, the white-domed basilica at the top of the hill and saunter along the Place du Tertre to find an art piece emblematic of your time in Paris.
A trip to Paris for the 2024 Olympics is everything an adventure seeker could hope for with elite sporting events, historic sights, and the chance to explore famous French culture.
As of July 26, 2023 seven million out of ten million available tickets have already been sold.
If the Olympics is on your bucket list, plan your dream Parisian Olympics vacation now with BucketList Travel Advisors, a France travel specialist.
Passez un bon moment in the City of Lights in 2024.