Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, most often simply called the Arc de Triomphe, is a tetrapylon monument located in Paris, at a high point at the junction of the 8th, 16th, and 17th arrondissements, notably at the top of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées and the Avenue de la Grande-Armée, which form a major Parisian east-west axis starting from the Louvre Pyramid, passing by the Obelisk of La Concorde, the Arc de Triomphe itself, and ending in the distance with the Arche de la Défense. Its construction, decided by Emperor Napoleon I, began in 1806 and was completed in 1836 under the reign of Louis-Philippe.