
La Defense is a modern business district just outside Paris, featuring steel-and-glass towers and the "Grande Arche" (great arch).

La Defense is in the same axis as the Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe can be seen from the Arche.

La Defense, from Le Louvre.

The CNIT, a white shell-shaped building (left) was one of the first modern buildings to be built in La Defense, in 1958. The CNIT houses a business center, a…