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  • Palais Garnier

    In 1858, Napoleon III decided to build the Grand Opera, for which Paris had long been awaiting, in the new business quarter designed by Baron Haussmann. The previous halls, since the foundation of the Académie Royale de Music, founded in 1669 by Louis XIV, had been either of temporary construction or had been destroyed by fires ...

  • de la bastille

    At the same spot once stood the Bastille Fortress that was made by Charles V in the 14th century to protect the east end of Paris during the 100 years War. Of course, it became famous after the war when it turned into a prison and got burnt on 1789 when the French Revolution started ...

  • Louvre museum.

    Originally a royal palace, the Louvre became a public museum at the end of the 18th century. It is located in the 1st arrondissement, There are about 35.000 objects on display, spread out over three wings of the former palace. The museum has a diverse collection ranging from the antiquity up to the mid 19th century ...

  • Les Invalides

    Les Invalides in Paris, France consists of a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as hospital and retirement home for war veterans, the original purpose of the building. It is also the burial site for several French war hero ...

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Louvre museum

Originally a royal palace, the Louvre became a public museum at the end of the 18th century. It is located in the 1st arrondissement,
There are about 35.000 objects on display, spread out over three wings of the former palace. The museum has a diverse collection ranging from the antiquity up to the mid 19th century. A large part of the collection consists of European paintings and sculptures. Other rooms contain Roman, Egyptian, Greek and Oriental art. There is also a section with 'Objects d'Art', where objects such as clocks, furniture, china and tapestries are displayed. Some of the most famous works of art in the museum are the Venus of Milo, the Nike of Samothrake, the Dying Slave by Michelangelo and of course Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. 
History of the Louvre
The Louvre was created in several phases.
Louvre seen from across
the Seine
Originally built as a 12th century fortress, it was converted into a royal palace in the 14th century.

Its current appearance goes back to the 15th century, when the original fortress was demolished and the wing along the Seine river was built. The palace was extended during the 16th century by architect Pierre Lescot, who expanded the palace into a complex with two courtyards. A decade later Catharina de Medici added the Tuileries palace to the west of the Louvre. Construction on the Louvre was halted for some time when king Louis XIV decided to move to the Versailles Palace.
In the 19th century, during the Second Empire, the Louvre was expanded again with the addition of the Richelieu wing.

East Wing
The Louvre now had four symmetric wings surrounding a large courtyard. This would not last long, as the Communards burned the Tuileries palace in 1871, opening up the west side of the palace.

The collection of the Louvre Museum was first established in the 16th century by King Francis I. One of the works of art he purchased was the now famous Mona Lisa painting. The collection grew steadily thanks to donations and purchases by the kings. In 1793, during the French Revolution, the private royal collection opened to the public.

Glass Pyramid
The most recent addition to the Louvre was the construction of the glass pyramid, which functions as the museum's main entrance. The pyramid was built in 1989 by the renowned American architect I.M. Pei. The glass pyramid allows the sunlight to come in on the underground floor.

The modern addition originally received mixed reviews, as it contrasts sharply with the classical design of the surrounding buildings, but today it is generally accepted as a clever solution which has given the museum a spacious central entrance without the need to touch the historic patrimony.
The Louvre, originally a palace but now one of the largest and most visited museums in the world, is a must-visit for anyone with a slight interest in art. Some of the museum's most famous works of art are the Mona Lisa and the Venus of Milo.

Location
Place du Carrousel
1e arrondissement
Subway
Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre (M 1,7)


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La Pantheon

Pantheon. - This word, in ancient Rome, a building dedicated to all gods. The first building was probably a so called big round room, a portico, and MV Agrippa, friend and son of the Emperor Augustus, erected in his third consulate, in the year 27 BC by the architect Valerius Ostiensis the center of the Champ de Mars, near the Baths that Agrippa had built in 33 AD, during his municipal administration. The vicissitudes What would undergo this Pantheon of Agrippa will be recorded in the page on the Pantheon in Rome, it is necessary only to recall that in the sequel, we gave the same name Pantheon building in which were kept the remains of great men or in which their memory was honored, and that the circular was not a mandatory requirement for this destination. The emperor Hadrian, who was probably restore, rebuild or improve the Pantheon of Agrippa in Rome, had erected in Athens, during one of his travels in this city, the Pantheon, whose ruins, rectangular, were often confused with the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, while Agrippa had built in Antequera (Spain) a temple on the model of Rome's Pantheon, the temple that was restored two centuries later, but we no longer find traces today.
One can cite a number of buildings that enshrined in various countries in the tomb of famous people, received the name of Pantheon. The principal of these buildings are: the Church of St. Dominic, in Palermo, large sanctuary, high in the thirteenth century by the Dominicans, contains the tombs of many Sicilians who have distinguished themselves as artists, scholars, lawyers, writers, men political or warriors, the church of Westminster Abbey, London, completed in its current state in the thirteenth century and which contains numerous tombs of royals and long rows of monuments of famous men, is regarded correctly by the English as a national shrine and the true Pantheon of England or the Phanteon of the king tomb at Escorial, near Madrid, crypt octagonal 10 m in diameter and a little more hight located below the capilla mayor, decorated with precious marbles and gilded bronze ornaments and containing, in four rows of superimposed niches, many graves Spanish monarchs from Charles-Quint.

The Pantheon in Paris, the former church of Saint Genevieve, the Madeleine church in Paris, which started under Louis XV, was transformed, by order of Napoleon I in the temple of fame dedicated to soldiers of the Grand Army but after the fall of the empire, was completed in this form of ancient temple and restored to its original destination, and finally, the Walhalla temple built by order of King Ludwig I of Bavaria from 1830 to 1842, Donaustauf, near Regensburg (Regensburg), the designs of the architect Léon Klenze, in honor of the great people of Germany and a sanctuary built on the Greek model of the Parthenon in Athens, was designed to contain the busts, in the form of Hermes, which was honored men of Germany, from Arminius, the winner of the Romans in the year 24 AD, to the great writer Goethe, who died in 1832.

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Les Invalides

Les Invalides in Paris, France consists of a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as hospital and retirement home for war veterans, the original purpose of the building. It is also the burial site for several French war hero.
King Louis XIV started the project with the order dated November 24, 1670, as home and hospital for aged and healthy soldiers: the name is a shortened form of the Hopital des Invalides, a hospital for the handicapped. Architect Les Invalides is a Liberal Bruant. The site chosen was the outskirts of town in the 17th century. At the enlarged project was completed in 1676, the river front measured 196 meters and the complex was fifteen pages, the largest to be cour d'Honneur ("court of honor") for military parades.

St. Peter's Basilica
Then felt that the veteran needed a chapel, Jules Hardouin Mansart where help Bruant age, and finish it in 1679 to Bruant design after the architect's death the eldest. The chapel is known as Eglise Saint-Louis des Invalides. Daily attendance is required.
Shortly after the veteran completed chapel, Louis XIV had Mansart construct a separate private royal chapel, often referred to as the Eglise du Dome of the most striking feature (right Ill.). Inspired by St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (left), native to all Baroque dome, this is one victory of French Baroque architecture. Mansart lift drum with an attic level above the main cornice, and employs the column motif pair in his more complicated rhythmic theme | u | | | uu | | u | |. General program is a statue but an integrated, rich but balanced, consistently carried through capping vertical thrust firmly with a dome-less assertive fins and hemispherical. Domed chapel is centrally placed to dominate the court of honor. It was completed in 1708. 
The inside of the dome (illustration, below right) painted by Le Brun's disciple Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716) with a Baroque illusion of space seen from below (with the perspective of su, the Italians call it). The painting was completed in 1705.

Tomb
The most notable tomb at Les Invalides is that of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) in the crypt under Mansart's dome. Napoleon was initially interred in Saint Helena, but King Louis-Philippe arranged for his remains were taken to St. Jerome's Chapel in Paris in 1840. A renovation of Les Invalides took many years, but in 1861 Napoleon was moved to the most prominent location under the dome at Les Invalides. 



Architecture
On the north front of Les Invalides (illustration, left) Hardouin-Mansart chapel dome is large enough to dominate the long facade door is not aligned with the Liberal Bruant under a pedimen curve. To the north of the page (cour d'Honneur), extended by a public esplanade (Esplanade des Invalides) where the embassies of Austria and Finland are neighbors of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, all one grand open space forming the heart of Paris. At its end, the Pont Alexandre III links this axis with the grand urbanistic Petit Palais and Grand Palais. (Pont des Invalides is next, downstream of the river Seine).

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de la bastille





At the same spot once stood the Bastille Fortress that was made by Charles V in the 14th century to protect the east end of Paris during the 100 years War. Of course, it became famous after the war when it turned into a prison and got burnt on 1789 when the French Revolution started.

you must to visit Bastille square late in the evening because the area is full of pubs, clubs, asian restaurants, full of people that go out to have fun. For those who love opera the Opera Bastille is also located there. It was built in 1989 with a capacity of 2700 people. What I recently learned was that the St.Martin Canal runs under the base of the column!!
Not far from this building now, there's a square that contains the former location of the Bastille, Place de la Bastille, spanning three arrondissements in Paris. Big ditch (Fosse) behind the fort has been converted into a marina for boat tours, Bassin de l'Arsenal, to the south, and a covered canal, the Canal Saint Martin, extending north from the marina below the adjacent road vehicle play with the location of the castle . Field where the Bastille once stood within reach of the Bastille Métro station.



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Arc De Triomphe

Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile or commonly known as the Arc de Triomphe (English : Gate of Victory) is a triumph of arch-shaped monument in Paris that stands in the middle area of the Place de l'Étoile, at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. The building was built on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte with the purpose to honor the military service his greatness.
 
Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris that became the background of the urban ensemble in Paris Located on the Chaillot hill right in the middle of a highway intersection configuration of five star-shaped.

The arch from the Neuilly side

The arch from the Champs Élysées side


Construction of this monument has been planned since 1806 by Napoleon after his victory at Austerlitz. The process of completion is the basic foundation of this monument takes workmanship for 2 years, and when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria in 1810, he was able to see this monument formed dr wood construction. The architect of this monument, Jean Chalgrin died in 1811. Work on the construction of this monument followed by Jean-Nicolas Huyot. During the Bourbon restoration in France, the construction of this monument was terminated and not proceed at all until the reign of King Louis-Philippe in the year 1833-36.



Opening hours
From 1 april to 30 september from 10am to 11pm
From 1 october to 31 march from 10am to 10.30pm
Closed on 1st january, 1st may, 8 may (morning), 14 july (morning), 11 november (morning) and on 25 december.

How to get there ?
Metro : lines 1, 2 et 6 station Charles-de Gaulle-Etoile.
RER : line A station Charles-de Gaulle-Etoile.
Bus : lines 22, 30, 31, 52, 73, 92 and Balabus.
 

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Eiffel Tower

 The beauty of place and sight in france also seems tonot be separated from the history of the france state it self. of the many sight in france are not separated from the history the Eiffel Tower and louver museum apparently is still the choice of the tourist to visit. Eiffel Tower is a Tower that has been known through out the world.the tower was built in 1889 and has been visited by 200 milion tourist from around the world. this makse it as a monument the ost visited by people of the world through out history


La Tour Eiffel or the Eiffel tower most rominent build in te city of paris, located on the Grounf Champ de Mars beside the Seine River and was introduced as a symbol of France

  Originally, the tower will be set up in Barcelona, Spain. However, the concerned authorities in Barcelona at that time thought that the making of this tower is a strange thing and will eat the cost. Until finally, Eiffel offers a plan to build this tower on the French. French State and then allow the Eiffel tower to establish this as the entrance to the World Exposition in commemoration of the French Revolution a hundred years. 

The Tower had three levels. A very expensive restaurant that is Jules Verne Restaurant located at level two. There is a bar at the top level, a souvenir shop and later there stored office of Gustave Eiffel. From these levels, especially from the upper level views of Paris can be seen is Extraordinary. An hour before sunset is an incredible sight.

"Metal Lady" is illuminated by- 352 powered 1000 watts proyector that blink every ten minutes and every day after sunset illum inated lamp by 20.000 light and decorative light.


Flashing light of the Eiffel Tower first made to celebrate the coming New Year 2000. But  despite the cost of expensive electricity, Parisians could not have prevented this habit out. Eiffel Tower management company had to rethink  to find ew ways to keep making permanent the Eiffel Towe twinkling like stars every ninght. After more than a year the towe light do not flicker, then the re- opening at 23:20 hours june 21, 2003 the lights were twinkling again
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Opening
From January 1 to June 18: 9:30 am – 18:30 pm (11:00pm via lift)
From June 19 to August 29: 9:00 am – midnight
From August 30 to December 31: 9:30 am – 18:30 pm (11:00pm via lift)
Last admittance 1 hour before closing.


How to get there
METRO : Bir-Hakeim, Trocadéro, Ecole Militaire
RER : Ligne C – Station Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel
BUS : 42,69,72,82,87
TAXI : Station Quai Branly, Pilier Ouest.

  • Elevator: 9:30 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. (Final ascension 11:00 p.m./10:30 p.m. top floor)
  • Stairs: 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Final admission 6:00 p.m.)
Eiffel Tower Admission:
Admission fees to the Eiffel Tower vary depending on how many levels you wish to visit and whether you plan to take the elevator or the stairs. Taking the stairs is always less expensive, but it can be excruciating-- and access to the top of the tower is not available via stairs. 

Best Times to Visit the Eiffel Tower:
The Eiffel Tower is Paris' most-visited attraction, so it's easy to understand why it's preferable to visit when crowds are likely to be a bit thinner than usual:
  • Low season in Paris is October to March. If you can visit during these times, you'll be more likely to avoid long lines and overcrowded observation areas. However, visiting the tower during the cold and wet months of November-February is less likely to be a pleasant experience, especially when overcast skies obstruct magnificent views of the city.

  • Visiting during weekdays rather than weekends and in the early morning or late evening is also a good idea.
Ways to Climb the Eiffel Tower:
  • By stairs: You can access the first and second levels of the tower (187 and 377 ft., respectively) by climbing 1,652 stairs. There is a small admission fee. Visitors with vertigo should abstain.

  • By elevator: Three elevators are available to shuttle you to the first and second levels of the tower. For security reasons, only one or two will be operating on a given day. An additional elevator must be taken from the second level to get to the top of the tower (another 905 ft.). Keep in mind that during peak tourist season (April-September), you may need to wait for a while.



 

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