Pont Neuf

There is no admission fee for the Pont Neuf. The Paris City Pass is your complete city tour package and serves as your ticket into many other top sights, museums, and attractions in Paris. Save yourself the trouble of gathering together all of the tickets you need to complete your Paris city tour - the Paris City Pass has got you covered!

Pont Neuf is centrally located in Paris. You can reach Pont Neuf at the following address: 1st Arrondissement, 75001 Paris.

Metro 7 to Pont Neuf 

Traveling to Pont Neuf has never been so easy as it is now—if you’re using the Paris City Pass. Before your departure to Paris, you will receive your tickets to using Paris’ public transportation so that when you arrive in Paris, you don’t need to pay any further fees to travel to Pont Neuf. With the Paris City Pass, you get a ticket that allows you usage of public transport in Paris. Whether you take the bus or train (both forms of transportation are included in the Paris City Pass) to visit top attractions, museums, and other sights in Paris (like Pont Neuf), using the public transportation system is definitively faster and simpler than going by foot or using the car. With the Paris City Pass, you won’t have to purchase any other ticket. Get your Paris City Pass right from the comfort of your own home and get your complete city tour package, which allows you free admission into top attractions in Paris and also FREE transport around Paris so that you can visit sights like Pont Neuf.

Other top sights in Paris can be easily reached after a visit to Pont Neuf such as Musée Rodin, Musée Picasso, Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Orsay.

The arches of Pont Neuf are 238 meters long and 20 meters wide. Even when it was first erected in 1607, Pont Neuf has always been an architectural masterpiece. This bridge connects the 1st and 6th arrondissement. On the left side of the bridge, one can find Rue Dauphine, and on its right side, Rue du Pont. The Pont Notre-Dame, Pont Saint-Michel, Petite Pont, and Pont au Change were the only bridges in Paris in the mid-16th century. Due to extreme damages by urban traffic to the architecture of these bridges, and because a connection between the Louvre and the St.Germain-des-Prés Abbey was in demand, Pont Neuf, or “New Bridge,” was built. 20 years after its first architectural design by Heinrich II, construction of the bridge was eventually started on May 31, 1578, and was led by Heinrich III. However, construction of Pont Neuf faced challenges due to resistance of its construction from the merchants of Paris. The total construction time of Pont Neuf (from its early stages of architectural design to the finish product) took a total of about 30 years, and it was finally finished during the reign of Heinrich IV. What was special about Pont Neuf was that neither shops nor houses were allowed to be built there so that one can travel on the bridge and have an unobstructed view of the Seine. Although other bridges with similar widths to Pont Neuf’s were later built (such as Pont Henri Iv and Pont Neuf in Toulouse), no other bridge like Pont Neuf was ever constructed. In 1985, the art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped Pont Neuf, after 10 years of negotiating with the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac. >> Visit Pont Neuf in Paris with the Paris City Pass for FREE!