Renaissance Paris La Défense, 60 Jardin de Valmy, Boulevard Circulaire, Sortie 7, 92918 La Défense/Paris, France.
La Défense, a modern area with high-rise buildings, is located in the west of Paris and is a major business district of the Paris aire urbaine. This area with a size of 160 hectar are located in the three cities of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux. La Défense is named after the iconic statue "La Défense de Paris", which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
In September 1958, The Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense (EPAD) buildings (of which the Esso Tower was the very first) were built and began to slowly replace the city's factories, shanties, and even a few farms. The Centre of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT) was built and first used in 1958. It is one of the first buildings built in Le Défrense and functions as convention centre, though it also houses the main offices such as that of FNAC, a media and electronics retailer found throughout Paris, as well as a Hilton hotel.
These "first generation" skyscrapers were all very similar in appearance, limited to a height of 100 metres (330 feet). In 1966, the Nobel Tower was the first office building built in the area. In 1970 the RER line A railway was opened from La Défense to Étoile.
With its 72 glass-and-steel slick buildings including 14 high-rises above 150 metres (490 ft), its 180,000 daily workers and 3.5 million squaremetres (37.7 million square feet) of office space, La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district.
The most famous building of La Défense is the Grande Arche, an almost perfect cube with a width of 108 metres, a height of 110 metres and a depth of 112 metres and covered with glass and Carrara marble from Italy. La Grande Arche, designed by the Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, was inaugurated in July 1989 and it completed the line of monuments that forms the Axe historique running through Paris from the Louvre Museum, the Tuilerie Garden, Place de la Concorde, Avenue des Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe. The Grande Arche is turned at an angle of 6.33 degree on the axis. The most important reason for this turn was technical. A Metro station, a RER station as well as a motorway are located directly underneath the Arche and the angle was the only way to accommodate the monument's giant foundations. From an architectural point of view, the turn emphasises the depth of the monument, and is similar to the turn of the Louvre at the other end of the Axe historique.
The Renaissance Paris La Defénse, a four-star firstclass hotel, is situated right in the heart of the business district of La Défense, close to the Grande Arche de la Defense, the CNIT (Centre of New Industries and Technologies), and the large shopping centre "Les Quatres Temps", and the hotel is only one express train stop and seven minutes from the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
The spacious Hotel Lobby is elegantly designed in a contemporary style with stunning marble floor and impressive pillars.
The 324 guestrooms and three suites at the hotel are located on ten floors. All accommodations are decorated in an elegant and modern style and they offer latest comfort and amenities.
The Renaissance Paris La Défense offers two restaurants with French and international cuisine as well as a bar serving cocktails, snacks and light meals.
The hotel offers a fitness centre with latest equipments, sauna and steam room.
The Renaissance Paris La Defense Hotel provides a large conference space with 13 meeting and banquet rooms for up to 220 people.
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