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Paris 2024: the torch relay

Before the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games kick off, the flame crosses France, carrying a message of peace and friendship

The torch relay routes showcase the rich heritage of Paris and beyond the capital and Greater Paris

Route of the Paralympic flame

The Paralympic Games Paris 2024, taking place from 28 August to 8 September 2024, are also in the spotlight.

A unique Torch relay route is planned as the flame is ... multiplied. After departing from Stoke Mandeville, the historic birthplace of Paralympic sport in England, the flame will travel through the Channel Tunnel between England and France on 25 August 2024, arriving in the north of France, in Calais, before splitting into twelve flames!

These twelve flames will meander across the whole of France on 26 August 2024, before converging in Greater Paris on 27 August 2024 and reaching Paris on 28 August 2024.

Once there, they make their way through every arrondissement in Paris - colonne de Juillet, hôtel de Sully, hôtel de la Marine - before coming together for the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games Paris, held on Place de la Concorde and on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, on 28 August 2024.

1st passage through Paris on 25 August 2024

80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944
Military, festive and popular parade from Porte d'Orléans to Place Denfert-Rochereau (departure at 4.15pm)
Official ceremony in the presence of President Macron and the Mayor of Paris
Presence of the Paralympic Flame on the stage of the Rock en Seine festival

Discover the full programme (in French) of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris including the exhibition Is Paris Burning? When Cinema Reinvents the Liberation

Passages in Greater Paris on 27 August 2024

Seine-et-Marne: Complexe Sportif de la Noyerie in Trilport and the Centre National des Sports de la Défense in Fontainebleau.
Yvelines: Vélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (host of the Paralympic Games) and Houdan
Essonne: Grigny
Hauts-de-Seine: Garches, Vaucresson and domaine national de Saint-Cloud
Seine-Saint-Denis: Épinay-sur-Seine, Villetaneuse, Sevran, Livry-Gargan, Clichy-sous-Bois, Montfermeil, Pantin, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais and a Flamme festival at the end of the day at the PRISME in Bobigny.
Val-de-Marne: municipal sports park at Sucy-en-Brie, Institut Robert Merle d'Aubigné and the Plage Bleue departmental park at Valenton.
Val-d'Oise: La Roche-Guyon, Cergy and Louvres

Last passage through Paris on 28 August 2024

The twelve flames - the main one lit in Great Britain (Axis 1) and eleven others arriving from the 4 corners of France - will enter Paris on 28 August 2024:

Axis 1: Insep and Château de Vincennes in the morning between 10am and 11am, places de la Nation, de la République, de la Bastille and Hôtel de Ville in the afternoon between 4pm and 6pm
Axis 2 : Square Léon, Grande aux Belles and Jardin Villemin
Axis 3: La Cipale and the Père Lachaise cemetery
Axis 4: Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir and Arènes de Lutèce
Axis 5 : Parc Monsouris and Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
Axis 6 : UNESCO, rue Masseran and Invalides
Axis 7 : Carreau du Temple and Place Pigalle
Axis 8: Cité des périchaux and 15th arrondissement town hall
Axis 9: Club France de la Villette and Place des Fêtes
Axis 10: Avenue de la Grande Armée and Parc Monceau
Axis 11 : Place du Châtelet and Place Saint-Sulpice
Axis 12: Lower lake of the Bois de Boulogne and the Parc Clichy-Batignolles

Discover the interactive map of the Paralympic Torch Relay

Map of the Paralympic Torch Relay route in France

Discover the route of the Paralympic Flame in France :

Discover the route of the Paralympic Flame in Île-de-France :

Discover the route of the Paralympic flame in Paris :

Discover the route of the Paralympic flame in video :

Route of the Olympic flame

France enjoys the thrill of the Games … before the Games!

From 8 May 2024, the Olympic flame, a symbol of peace and friendship between peoples, begins its journey on French soil, in Marseille, a host city for the Paris 2024 Games, where the sailing events and several matches in the men's and women's football tournaments will be held. The Olympic torchbearers in Marseille for the first leg on French soil include: Pascal Trinquet-Hachin, Tony Parker, Didier Drogba, Redouane Bougheraba, Basile Boli, Vincent Matheron...

More info on the arrival of the Olympic flame in Marseille

10,000 torchbearers have the privilege of carrying this emblem of Olympism across the entire country, from the caves of Lascaux to Mont Saint-Michel, andTeahupo’o, in Tahiti, the venue for the surfing events.

See the list of Olympic torchbearers

Before its final arrival in Paris, the Olympic flame will make a first visit to the capital on 14 July - the French National Holiday - and on 15 July 2024. The route will highlight the diversity of the capital's heritage: from the iconic landmark of the Arc de Triomphe to the popular district of Belleville, via the Bois de Vincennes, a large, wooded area on the edge of the capital.

The Olympic flame's journey ends on 26 July 2024, the day of the Opening Ceremony.

Some highlights of the torch relay in Paris on 14 July 2024

choreography by the acrobat Yoann Bourgeois on the place du Panthéon.
Paris Pop Party hosted by Radio Cargo's DJ set on the Place du Colonel-Fabien.
The D.I.V.A lyric quartet will be performing offbeat versions of French opera arias at the Petit Palais.
Colourful bingo drag at the Marais.
arrival of the flame on the Terrasse de Jeux at the Hôtel de Ville, which will be open all night so that everyone can admire the flame
fireworks and the Grand Concert by the Orchestre de Radio France at the Champ-de-Mars

Pari Roller is organising 2 events to mark the torch relay in Paris: the Parade des Mobilités on Sunday 14 July 2024 (meet at 6.30pm at the corner of rue de Rivoli and place Vendôme) and a [Roller Party](https://pari-roller. com/news/pari-roller-fete-les-jeux/) with a roaming DJ on Monday 15 July 2024 (meet at 1.45pm on rue de Vaugirard between Pasteur and Vaugirard metro stations; free loan of rollerblades for the occasion).

Discover the map of the Paris route of the Olympic flame on 14 and 15 July 2024. In yellow, the points where the flame will pass on 14 July 2024. In pink, these are the crossing points on 15 July 2024 :

Parcours de la flamme paris 14 et 15 juillet 2024 © Ville de Paris

From 19 July to 25 July 2024, the Torch Relay crosses Greater Paris with stages at

Soisy-sous-Montmorency (in the Val-d'Oise) on 19 July 2024
at Meaux, in the medieval town of Provins and at the Château de Fontainbleau (in Seine-et-Marne) on 20 July 2024
at Créteil and Château de Vincennes (in Val-de-Marne) on 21 July 2024
at Évry-Courcouronnes (in Essonne) on 22 July 2024
at Versailles, Villa Savoye and Château de Rambouillet (in Yvelines) on 23 July 2024
on the Esplanade de la Défense and at Nanterre (in Hauts-de-Seine) on 24 July 2024
the Archives Nationales of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, at La Courneuve and basilique cathédrale de Saint-Denis (in Seine-Saint-Denis) on 25 July 2024