Paris Basilica of Saint-Denis Tickets

If you’re a lover of French history, these tickets for the Basilica of Saint-Denis in Paris offer a great opportunity to broaden your knowledge. With this ticket, you’ll learn more about the place where more than 70 kings and statesmen from the country’s history are buried. What’s more, at the entrance you’ll be given information leaflets in several languages to guide you during your visit.

You’ll enter what is considered the world’s first Gothic cathedral, situated in the north of Paris, to admire its marvellous interior. Part of the history of French architecture can be found in this church, which features over 70 statues and monumental tombs from the Renaissance. In fact, it boasts the largest collection of funerary sculptures from the 12th to the 16th centuries.

You can see the tombs of 43 kings, 32 queens and 10 members of the royal household at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis. They range from Dagobert I in 639 AD to 19th-century royalty, including the crypt of the much-loved Marie Antoinette of Austria.

This church was built over the tomb of Saint Denis, a bishop of Paris who died in 250 AD. However, it was elevated from a basilica to a cathedral in 1966.