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Every page on hoteldesinvalides.com, grouped by what you are looking for: booking, planning your visit, understanding the Dôme and the tomb, walking the museums, or reading a review. A useful reminder before you click: the great courtyard is free to walk through, and a single ticket opens the Dôme and four museums.
Start here
- Home — Hôtel des Invalides
- The complete guide to Les Invalides
- What you book, and what is free
- Reviews of the five bookings
- Is it worth visiting?
Book
- The entry ticket: four museums and the Dôme
- The small-group guided tour
- The skip-the-line guided tour
- The Napoleon walking tour
- The Paris Museum Pass, Invalides included
- The Rodin Museum, 400 m away
- Which ticket should you choose?
- Guided tour or on your own?
Before you come
- Who pays, who does not
- What you can visit without a ticket
- Opening hours of the site and museums
- Which days it is closed
- How long to allow
- Getting there: lines 8 and 13, RER C
- Do you need to book?
- The best time to come
- Is there a dress code?
- Visiting with children
- Accessibility, wheelchairs, stairs
- Les Invalides on 14 July
The Dôme and Napoleon
- How to visit the tomb
- What is inside the tomb
- Who is buried at Les Invalides
- The Dôme: architecture and history
- The gold on the dome, 12.65 kg
- The Eaglet, Napoleon II
- Where Napoleon III is buried
- Is Napoleon in the Panthéon?
- Panthéon or Les Invalides?
- What Napoleon died of
- His last words
- Is de Gaulle buried here?
The monument and its museums
- What to see, in order
- The Army Museum in four parts
- The Museum of Relief Maps
- The Museum of the Order of the Liberation
- The cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides
- The Esplanade des Invalides
- Can you see the Eiffel Tower?
- The history of the Hôtel des Invalides
- Soldiers still live here
Reviews
- Les Invalides entry ticket
- Small-group guided tour
- Skip-the-line guided tour
- Napoleon walking tour
- Paris Museum Pass