Avenue d'Iéna

Avenue d'Iéna

View from the third floor of the Eiffel Tower
Length	1,140 m (3,740 ft)
Width	36 m (118 ft)
Arrondissement	16th
Quarter	Chaillot.
From	6 avenue Albert De Mun
To	place Charles de Gaulle (place de l'Etoile)
Construction
Completion	March 6, 1858
Denomination	March 2, 1864

Coordinates: 48°52′06.00″N 2°17′44.50″E / 48.8683333°N 2.2956944°E / 48.8683333; 2.2956944

The Avenue d'Iéna is a tree-lined avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, running from the Trocadéro (Avenue Albert De Mun) to the Place de l'Étoile. Passing through Place d'Iéna, Place de l'Amiral de Grasse, Place de l'Uruguay and Place Richard de Coudenhove Kalergi on the way. It is named from the neighbouring bridge across the Seine, the Pont d'Iéna (itself named after the Battle of Iena). It has a length of some 1150 m and an average width of some 35 m.

The avenue is intersected by:

The closest metro stations are:

On the March 2, 1864, the Avenue d'Iéna replaced the former rue des Batailles, which ran between the avenue Albert De Mun and the Place d'Iéna.

The rue des Batailles had been a street in the village of Chaillot, engulfed by the expanding Paris in 1786. For some years afterwards, two town boundaries of Chaillot could be seen at the wall of sieur Lélu and the house of sieur Jamard. The street housed several hospitals and a private lunatic asylum was set up in the house once occupied by the Chevalier Pierre Bayard du Terrail. The chemist Charles Derosne (1779–1846), worked in 7 rue des Batailles at the extraction of sugar from sugarbeet.

On December 20, 1961, the name Place de l'Uruguay was given to the intersection of the streets Rue Galilée and Jean Giraudoux with the avenue.