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Discover the beauty of France.

Paris, city and capital of France, situated in the north-central part of the country. People were living on the site of the present-day city, located along the Seine River some 233 miles (375 km) upstream from the river's mouth on the English Channel (La Manche), by about 7600 bce.

 

Paris is a major European city and a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture. Its 19th-century cityscape is crisscrossed by wide boulevards and the River Seine. Beyond such landmarks as the Eiffel Tower and the 12th-century, Gothic Notre-Dame cathedral, the city is known for its cafe culture and designer boutiques along the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.

 

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.

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Hello Paris, hello famous Eiffel Tower. I was looking forward to meeting you.

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer" (French for "Iron Lady"), it was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair and was initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world.

 

The design of the Eiffel Tower is attributed to Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, two senior engineers working for the Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel. It was envisioned after discussion about a suitable centrepiece for the proposed 1889 Exposition Universelle, a world's fair to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Old Town In Paris, France.

This city is cozy, beautiful and hospitable.

Marvellous time in Paris.

Walks along the Seine River in Paris.

Every summer for the past 16 years, sections of the commuter route have closed down and converted into a temporary riverside park, part of the Paris Plages initiative, which takes vehicles off the roads and transforms the river banks into sandy beaches dotted with deck chairs and umbrellas for city dwellers who can’t escape the humid summer weather

Top view of the Paris.

Eiffel Tower. La Tour Eiffel. Эйфелева башня.

History, key figures, lights, paintings, explore all the secrets of the world's most iconic monument. 

She is more famous than I am,” Eiffel famously once said when speaking of his greatest engineering project. But perhaps he should have mentioned his best purchase was more famous than he was. Because the Eiffel Tower wasn't designed by Gustave Eiffel but by senior engineers working for Eiffel's company.

Although many consider that the person who projected the monument was Gustave Eiffel, in reality, the things are not like that. Two men named Emile Nouguier and Maurice Koechlin designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

 

Although Eiffel was an engineer himself (he himself designed the Gare/ Station at Verdun among other monuments around France), he initially showed little to no interest in the project. He was intrigued enough to allow his engineers to continue designing the project and enlisted the help of senior engineer Stephen Sauvestre to aid them in their project.

Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer and architect. He is famous for co-designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887–1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.

 

Maurice Koechlin was a Franco-Swiss structural engineer from the Koechlin family.

 

Though named after a project of Gustave Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower – symbol of Paris – has its structural concept and form from the responsible chief engineer Maurice Koechlin. Koechlin was an engineer of outstanding ingenuity and well versed in the structural techniques of his time. He possessed therefore the best qualifications for evolving such technically innovative conceptions for which Eiffel and his firm were renowned.

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit viaduct. He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty in New York. After his retirement from engineering, Eiffel focused on research into meteorology and aerodynamics, making significant contributions in both fields.

Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre (26 December 1847 - 18 June 1919) was a French architect. He is notable for being one of the architects contributing to the design of the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.

The Eiffel Tower never fails to impress.

Seine River is one of the famous rivers in Paris.

During the Second World War Hitler ordered to his army to destroy the monument.

Fortunately, this thing never happened and the tower is still standing and is one of the most important attractions of Paris, the capital of France.

I really enjoyed this trip.

Lots of wonderful views.

The Eiffel Tower and the La Défense district.

SIGHTS OF PARIS  

 

Sights for a Walk Along the Seine Left Bank · Notre-Dame: Start with the famous cathedral and try to see if you can catch Quasimodo in the bell tower.

Philharmonie de Paris.

Everything in Paris is beautiful.

Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris.

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.

 

The Musée d’Orsay houses art from the second half of the 19th century. The collections include pieces by famous artists such as Delacroix, Ingres, Rodin, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Monet, Manet, Degas, and Renoir. Neoclassicism, romanticism, impressionism, expressionism, art nouveau, historical paintings, and naturalism are some of the types of art that can be found in the museum. Since its opening, the museum has seen nearly 87 million visitors.

Such a lovely place. Architecture of Paris.

The Louvre museum, home to the "Mona Lisa," is the heart of this lively district that features Hausmann-era boulevards and parks such as the Tuileries and the 17th-century Palais Royal. Fashionistas troop to the designer boutiques and luxury jewelers along chic Rue Saint Honoré and Place Vendôme. Les Halles shopping district has international fashion chains along Rue de Rivoli and in a vast underground mall.

 

Station Temple (Paris Metro). Serving the Place de la Concorde in central Paris, it is located in the 1st arrondissement.

Louvre Museum.

Louvre, the national museum and art gallery of France, housed in part of a large palace in Paris. It is the world’s most-visited art museum, with a collection that spans work from ancient civilizations to the mid-19th century.

 

The Louvre’s painting collection is one of the richest in the world, representing all periods of European art up to the Revolutions of 1848. Works painted after that date that the Louvre once housed were transferred to the Musée d’Orsay upon its opening in 1986. The Louvre’s collection of French paintings from the 15th to the 19th century is unsurpassed in the world, and it also has many masterpieces by Italian Renaissance painters, including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (c. 1503–19), and works by Flemish and Dutch painters of the Baroque period.

Place De La Republique, Paris.

The square was originally called the Place du Château d'Eau, named after a huge fountain designed by Pierre-Simon Girard and built on the site in 1811. Émile de La Bédollière wrote that the water came from la Villette and that the fountain was "superb" in character. In 1867, Gabriel Davioud built a more impressive fountain in the square, which (like the first fountain) was decorated with lions. The square took its current shape as part of Baron Hausmann's vast renovation of Paris.[4] Haussmann also built new barracks on the cities, to garrison troops useful in times of civil unrest.

At the center of the Place de la République is a 31 feet (9.4 m) bronze statue of Marianne, the personification of the French Republic, "holding aloft an olive branch in her right hand and resting her left on a tablet engraved with Droits de l'homme (the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen)." The statue sits atop a monument which is 75 feet (23 m) high. Marianne is surrounded with three statues personifying liberty, equality, and fraternity, the values of the French Republic. These statues also evoke the three medieval theological virtues. Also at the base is a lion guarding a depiction of a ballot box. The monument has been described as "an ordinary one, acceptable to a committee in the 1880s and inoffensively unarresting today."

The monument was created by the brothers Charles and Léopold Morice. Leopold executed the sculptural segments, while Charles executed the architectural segments. The monument was chosen as part of an art competition announced in early 1879 by the Paris City Council, which sought to create a "Monument to the French Republic" in honor of the 90th anniversary of the French Revolution, to be erected on the Place de la République. The Morice statue was chosen by the jury, but a "vociferous minority opinion among jury members claimed precedence for the second prize", the submission of Jules Dalou, who had just returned from exile in England. Dalou's statue, which was completely different in style, impressed the jury so much that it was decided in early 1880 to erect his monument to the Republic on the adjacent Place de la Nation. Two inauguration ceremonies for the Morice monument took place, the first on 14 July 1880 with a gypsum model, and the second on 14 July 1883 with the final version in bronze. The monument replaced the second fountain.

Art.

Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre (Sacre-Coeur). The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris, France, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Sacré-Cœur Basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city.

 

You can reach the Sacré-Coeur from the Anvers metro stop on line 2; from there, you can ride the funicular up the mountain to the basilica. But to truly experience Montmartre's magical atmosphere, climb the neighborhood's winding stone, located next to the funicular. The Sacré-Cœur opens its doors to visitors every day from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., and admission is free.

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris.

Fairytale bliss.

The Hôtel de Soubise is a city mansion entre cour et jardin, located at 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.

 

The Hôtel de Soubise and the Hôtel de Rohan. In 1371, Olivier de Clisson, the successor to the Constable of France Bertrand du Guesclin, started work on building a house in the heart of the Temple district, the present-day Marais, which was being developed at the time. All that remains of this original dwelling is the fortified entrance flanked by two bartizans on what is now the rue des Archives. This is the final trace of 14th-century private architecture still visible in Paris today.

Hôtel de Rohan.

Worth to visit Jardin des Tuileries. Centrally located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde, the Jardin des Tuileries is a free public garden that spans approximately 55 acres. Though it was initially designed solely for the use of the royal family and court, the park was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1991 (as part of the Banks of the Seine) and has been open to the public since the 17th century. The green space holds an important role in France's history. For example, foreign dignitaries once gathered for meetings in the Jardin des Tuileries, and Napoleon and Marie-Louise's wedding procession marched through the gardens on the way to the couple's marriage banquet in the now-defunct Palais des Tuileries.

Tuileries Garden.

Very high quality and good service.

It was the best best best time ever.

Beautiful and romantic !

Great view.

So amazing.

It's a Wonderful Life.

Enjoy life to the fullest.

Unforgettable summer.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Normandy is a region of northern France.

Le Mont - Saint - Michel.

Want a glass of wine sir ?

Let's pour.

French church.

Seine River.

Luxembourg Gardens (Jardin du Luxembourg).

A rainbow zebra crossing in Paris.

Rainbow pedestrian crossings painted on roads in the Marais district of Paris for Gay Pride march will become a permanent feature, the city's mayor has decided after one of them was tagged with homophobic graffiti.

Rainbow Crosswalk in Paris.

Newly-painted Pride crosswalk in Paris.

France is unique. This country house is so beautiful.

Never change to be accepted by others. Stay weird !

City of Love i don't say goodbye.

Since during our trip to France, the COVID-19 pandemic began in the world, we did not manage to visit all the sights. So I say Paris I'll be back.

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