The Arc de Triomphe, or the Great Roundabout, as I like to call it, stands at the end of the Champs-Elysees. It is located at the intersection of three arrondissements, the 16th, the 17th and the 8th. It honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The Arc is part of a historic axis of monuments in Paris (known as the Axe historique), which also includes the Louvre, Les Garden des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Elysees, travelling some 10km to La Defense.