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The riverside towers are a useful landmark, but do not mark the visitor door." } } ] } ] } ], "editorialMarkdown": "[View next **Place Dauphine**]()\n\n## Conciergerie\n\nMedieval palace halls and the history of the Revolutionary prison beside the Seine.\n\n[Plan this experience]()\n\n[Explore the story]()\n\nCost **Admission**\n\nTime to allow **Allow 1–1½ hours, plus security**\n\nPlace **Île de la Cité, Paris**\n\n01 / The experience\n\n### From royal household to Revolutionary prison.\n\nThe riverside towers give the Conciergerie a fortress-like face, but its great medieval halls reveal the household behind the royal palace. Rows of columns and low ribbed vaults spread across the Salle des Gens d’Armes, a space built for the people who served the king. Its scale is the first surprise: this was infrastructure for a working palace, rather than a small private royal chamber.\n\n#### A Gothic palace and its medieval halls\n\nThe surviving rooms belong to the medieval Palais de la Cité. The Salle des Gardes and royal kitchens add other parts of that practical world. An architectural visit can follow how the vaults, supporting columns and service spaces fit together, with the river frontage remaining an important part of the palace’s position on the island.\n\nAfter the kings left, judicial activity and imprisonment took a larger role. During the Revolution, the Conciergerie held prisoners awaiting the Revolutionary Tribunal. The prison displays give that change a human scale through confinement, procedure and the conditions that separated one prisoner’s experience from another’s.\n\n#### The prison and Marie-Antoinette memorial\n\nMarie-Antoinette is the best-known prisoner associated with the site. The Expiatory Chapel commemorates her imprisonment on the site of her cell; it is a later memorial, rather than an untouched room preserved exactly as she knew it. Seeing it beside the older palace rooms makes the building’s different historical layers particularly clear.\n\nA Histopad can add reconstructions to the visit, helping explain spaces whose original uses are no longer visible. The physical rooms remain the reason to come: medieval vaults, prison routes and memorial spaces held within a building still tied to the island’s judicial precinct. [Sainte-Chapelle]() is close by, but its stained-glass interior offers a very different encounter with the same former royal palace.\n\n![Conciergerie, Paris]()\n\nCulture & landmarks **Conciergerie** Paris\n\nIn pictures\n\n### The full gallery.\n\n02 / The essentials\n\n### Conciergerie: visit essentials\n\n1. 01\n\n Île de la Cité\n2. 02\n\n Allow 1–1½ hours, plus security\n3. 03\n\n Paid admission; eligibility and combined Sainte-Chapelle products have separate conditions.\n\n04 / Before you go\n\n### Plan your visit\n\nMedieval palace halls and the history of the Revolutionary prison beside the Seine.\n\n#### Admission\n\nPaid admission; eligibility and combined Sainte-Chapelle products have separate conditions.\n\n#### Opening & visit\n\nNormally daily 09:30–18:00, last entry 17:30; closed 1 May and 25 December.\n\n#### Arrival\n\nUse the visitor entrance at 2 boulevard du Palais. Allow time for security within the Palais de Justice precinct.\n\n2 boulevard du Palais, 75001 Paris\n\n[Get directions]()\n\n#### Plan your visit\n\nChoose the Conciergerie admission product or the intended combined ticket. Sainte-Chapelle uses its own timed-entry arrangements; a saved itinerary is not an admission reservation.\n\n[Choose official admission]()\n\n#### Accessibility\n\nThe historic visit spans stairs and levels and is not wheelchair accessible; consult the monument for adapted options.\n\n05 / Where it is\n\n### Find it\nand what’s nearby.\n\nExplore around Conciergerie\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### More of Paris, around your visit.\n\n#### Continue your Paris day\n\n- [Île de la Cité]()\n- [Sainte-Chapelle]()\n- [Île Saint-Louis]()\n- [All Paris sights and neighbourhoods]()\n- [Paris cafés, restaurants and food stops]()\n\n#### Plan your Paris visit\n\n- [Paris city guide]()\n- [Choose a Paris city day]()\n- [Find a Paris hotel]()\n- [Plan Métro and walking journeys]()\n- [Build your saved itinerary]()\n\n06 / Good to know\n\n### Conciergerie: frequently asked questions\n\n01 What can I see inside the Conciergerie?\n\nThe medieval palace halls, prison-history displays and Marie-Antoinette memorial chapel form the main visitor route. Room access can change.\n\n02 Is Marie-Antoinette’s cell preserved at the Conciergerie?\n\nThe Expiatory Chapel commemorates her imprisonment on the site of the cell. It is a later memorial rather than an untouched original cell.\n\n03 Does a Conciergerie ticket include Sainte-Chapelle?\n\nOnly a product explicitly sold as a combined ticket includes both. [Sainte-Chapelle]() has its own timed-entry and security arrangements.\n\n04 How long does a Conciergerie visit take?\n\nAllow one to one and a half hours inside, plus security. The Histopad and a slower reading of the prison displays can extend the visit.\n\n05 Is the Conciergerie wheelchair accessible?\n\nThe historic route has stairs and levels and is not wheelchair accessible. Ask the monument about adapted resources before arranging a visit.\n\n06 Where do I enter the Conciergerie?\n\nThe visitor entrance is at 2 boulevard du Palais on [Île de la Cité]() . The riverside towers are a useful landmark, but do not mark the visitor door.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### Make Paris\nyour own.\n\n[Visit the official site]()[← All things to do]()\n\nOpening hours, prices and access change. Confirm details on the official site before visiting." }