Paris 4K - Skyscraper District Drive - La Defense

Friday afternoon drive around the Paris district home to many of the city’s tallest high-rises. La Défense in Paris is Europe’s largest purpose-built business district with 72 glass and steel buildings, 180,000 daily workers, and 38,000,000 sq ft of office space. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year. Les Quatre Temps, a large shopping mall in La Défense, has 220 stores, 48 restaurants and 24 movie theaters. La Défense is a major business district and is three kilometres west of Paris. It is part of the Paris Metropolitan Area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department Hauts-de-Seine spread across the communes of Courbevoie, Nanterre, and Puteaux. La Défense is Europe’s largest purpose-built business district with 560 hectares (1,400 acres) of area, 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 19 are completed skyscrapers), 180,000 daily workers, and 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Gr