Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Olympic venues, sporting events and places of interest in the 4th arrondissement.

From July 26 to September 7, 2024, Paris, Parisians and the (almost) entire planet will be watching the sporting events of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

In the 7th arrondissement, the Champ-de-Mars will be fully occupied for the events, while in the 8th,fencing and archery competitions are expected on the esplanade des Invalides or under the glass roof of the Grand Palais. As you'll have gathered, Paris isn't doing things by halves for this summer's Games, with historic Olympic sites and exceptional venues set aside for international athletes to perform.

In the 4th arrondissement, only one Olympic site is available to host some of the events, or at least the start of them.

Town Hall

What better way to represent the city of Paris than the city hall itself? An exceptional building located in the 4th arrondissement, not far from the banks of the Seine, it boasts a huge neo-renaissance façade, rebuilt in 1871 following the fires to which it was subjected during the Paris Commune. During the Games, theHôtel de Ville will be the starting point for the most legendary of running events: the marathon (and, what's more, the starting point for the marathon for all, too).

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Located not far from the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Louvre Pyramid and the Tuileries Gardens, theHôtel de Ville is in the heart of the capital: the perfect opportunity to fill up on outings, before or after watching the start of the marathon.

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