The lift out of service and the underground way in, the corrected dimensions and the architect older accounts never name, Napoleon's canvas arch of 1810 and his funeral cortege of 1840, the flame rekindled nightly, the Christo wrapping and the 2018 damage, and why the monument can be seen from so far.
The King does not live at Buckingham Palace and will not: Clarence House stays his London home for the rest of the reign. What the palace is instead, and what the East Wing opening of 2024 made visible for the first time in 175 years.
The three Seine bathing sites and how they work, the riverside park that replaced the expressways, the Pont Neuf, the Pont d'Austerlitz rebuilt in stone and the four Pegasus of the Pont Alexandre III, where the river really rises, the booksellers, and the World Heritage corridor.
The avenue's two halves and where they divide, the widest-avenue claim dropped, the plane trees, what the redesign has actually built, the Concorde works to 2030, the Grand and Petit Palais, and the monthly car-free Sunday.
Dippy left the main hall in 2017 and is on loan in Coventry until February 2027; a blue whale skeleton hangs in its place and the museum's gardens reopened in July 2024.
The December 2024 reopening and how to get in free, the towers' new one-way circuit of 424 steps, the spire that was Viollet-le-Duc's rather than medieval, the bells and the organ, the twenty-eight kings of Judah and their rediscovered heads, and the contested new windows.
Founded with 38 paintings in 1824, free to enter ever since. The National Gallery after its bicentenary, its £85m new entrance and its first full rehang since 1991.
The real size of the collection, three paintings older accounts wrongly place here, the October 2025 jewel theft and the emptied Galerie d'Apollon, the pyramid and the vanished Tuileries palace, the decade-long rebuild, and the two-tier admission introduced in 2026.
The Great Court opened in 2000 in the courtyard the library had filled until 1997, and the question of where the Parthenon sculptures belong is still open.
The Hall of Mirrors and the two events older accounts omit, the real fountain and estate figures, Le Notre's gardens, the ticketed fountain shows, Trianon, the equestrian academy, and a road closure running to 2027.
