Conciergerie
The Conciergerie was for several centuries the main palace of the French kings, and was also used as a center of justice and a prison. This authentic castle is located in the western part of the Isle of Cité, in the center of Paris, and it was built in the Gothic style.
Here you can see the great Gothic hall and the prison cell of Marie Antoinette, admire one of the most beautiful chapels - Sainte-Chapelle and learn the important role that the palace played in French history. You will also see the Caesar Towers and the Silver Tower (royal treasury), the Bonbeck Tower, where the torture chambers were located, the operating clock on the tower (which is six hundred years old), as well as many various poorer and richer dungeons.
A Walk Through The Conciergerie. Just video.
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Conciergerie. Paris.
The history of the palace begins in the 4th century, when the first house was founded here by the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate. And at the beginning of the 6th century, he passed to Clovis, who was the founder of the first French monarchy with hereditary rights. With the appearance of the first king of the Capetian dynasty, Hugo Capet, the Conciergerie served from the end of the 10th to the 14th century as a refuge for French kings, until the construction of the Louvre by Charles V, after which this palace began to play the role of parliament, prison and center of justice.
The Conciergerie prison was considered one of the most brutal prisons in France. Torture and executions were carried out here on a large scale. It was here that she spent 76 days before the execution of Marie-Antoinette, where the trial of Emile Zola was held, and the revolutionary Robespierre and the spy Mata Hari were sentenced to death.
A look inside Marie Antoinette's former cell at Conciergerie prison in Paris
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Conciergerie. Paris.
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