Saint-Augustin: history and sights
Served by: metro line 9.
Did you know?
Serves the Saint-Augustin church, a 19th-century feat of engineering using a hidden metal frame to support its vast dome without visible pillars.
Anecdote
Architect Victor Baltard used an iron structure, invisible from outside, to free up the church's interior space.
Around Saint-Augustin
- Église Saint-Augustin, 230 m away — A 19th-century church with a hidden metal frame, an engineering feat by Victor Baltard.
- Boulevard Haussmann, 300 m away — A major shopping boulevard lined with department stores and elegant Haussmann-era buildings.
- Parc Monceau, 1000 m away — An 18th-century English garden adorned with romantic follies, one of the most elegant in Paris.
- Chapelle expiatoire, 170 m away — A funerary monument raised by Louis XVIII on the site of the cemetery where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were first buried.