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An Apollonaut travel guide

Look a little closer.

Read through the staircase, the stage and the city. Each is a different way to begin a visit.

Visitors on the Grand Staircase of the Palais Garnier
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Ways into the story

  1. Marble and light

    Begin with the Journal’s look at the Grand Staircase and the spaces around it.

  2. People and place

    Follow the heritage introduction into the opera house’s longer history, from Napoleon III to Chagall.

  3. A city in detail

    Explore Haussmann’s Paris through the Building Paris guide.

Stories with a clear point of view

A useful story gives you something specific to notice: a material, a person, a change over time or a question worth carrying into a visit. Context matters as much as a striking image.

This hub brings the opera house’s editorial pages together. It does not present commissioned interviews, community partnerships or independent field reporting that have not taken place. When new reporting is added, its contributors, dates and image credits should travel with it.

The Apollonaut collection

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