Église de la Madeleine (Paris)
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L'église de la Madeleine (more formally, L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine; less formally, just La Madeleine), Madeleine Church in English, is a Roman Catholic church occupying a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed in its present form as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army. To its south lies the Place de la Concorde, to the east is the Place Vendôme, and to the west L'église Saint-Augustin.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Église_de_la_Madeleine
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Coordinates: 48°52'12"N 2°19'28"E
- Church of Saint-Roch 0.7 km
- Church of St. Augustine 0.9 km
- Basilica Sainte-Clotilde Sainte-Valere 1.3 km
- Eglise Saint-Eustache 1.6 km
- Paris Foreign Missions Society (Etrangères de Paris) 1.9 km
- Saint Trinity Cathedral and Russian Orthodox Cultural Centre 2 km
- Church of Saint Sulpice 2.2 km
- Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Montmartre, Paris. 2.3 km
- Notre-Dame de Paris 2.6 km
- Sorbonne 2.6 km
- Boulevard Haussmann 0.4 km
- Place de la Concorde 0.5 km
- Place Vendôme. 0.5 km
- Garden of the Tuileries 0.7 km
- Jardins des Champs-Élysées 0.7 km
- 8th arrondissement (Elysèe) 1.1 km
- 9th arrondissement (Opèra) 1.2 km
- 1st arrondissement (Louvre) 1.2 km
- Avenue des Champs-Élysées 1.2 km
- 2nd arrondissement (Bourse) 1.3 km