Pont de l'Alma ligger nära Palais de Tokyo och Quai de Branly i västra Paris. Det kan nås med tunnelbana via stationerna Pont de l'Alma och Alma-Marceau (linjerna RER C och 9). Det rekommenderas inte att ta sig till Pont de l'Alma-huset med bil eftersom parkering är knapp och komplicerad.
Alma Bridge connects the 7th arrondissement (Palais de Tokyo and Quai de Branly) to the 8th arrondissement (Place de l’Alma and the Champs-Élysées). Take Métro line 9 to Alma-Marceau on the right bank, or the RER C to Gare du Pont d’Alma on the left bank and walk a few steps to reach the bridge.
Visit the bridge when the sun is rising or setting for the best photo opportunities of the tower and the river. Peak season in Paris is June through mid-September, with most tourists arriving in the summer.
When Alma Bridge opened in 1857, four statues of soldiers decorated its sides at water level:xa0 a grenadier, a skirmisher, an artilleryman, and a zouave. During the Great Flood of 1910, the water rose to the zouve’s shoulders, and thereafter, the 17-foot (5.2-meter) statue became a popular way to mark the river swell. In the 1970s, the stone bridge was entirely replaced with a steel one, and the zouave was the sole statue to stay, having already been firmly embedded in Parisian folklore and immortalized in song.
