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 Montmartre and the Sacred Heart Church
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The Romano-Byzantine Basilica crowns the Montmartre hill. Its construction began in 1875 and was completed in 1914. For a fun ride, go to the Anvers metro station, walk to "Rue Tardieu" and take the "funiculaire" (a one-car wynch train which takes you almost to the top of the hill). Montmartre itsef used to be a village outside Paris. The hill is famous for its architectural landmarks, its artistic life, and more recently, for 'Amelie'. It counts no less than 7 museums. Entrance is free, except for the crypt and dome (about 5 Euros). |
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| The Palais des Congrès
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A top-notch stopover in the world's star capital!
An exemplary setting for exceptional events, the Palais des Congrès is located at the crossroads of Parisian life. Since its creation by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1974, it has played an important role in the economic life and cultural development of the French capital. Expanded and renovated in 1999, the Palais des Congrès is woven into the texture of Paris urban life, adding shadow and light, stability and movement, symmetry and asymmetry, black-and-white and colour, all balancing each other out according to the "poetry of contrasts".
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| The Arc De Triomphe
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The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly the Place de l'Etoile, at the western end of the Champs-Elysées. It is the linchpin of the historic axis (L'Axe historique)leading from the courtyard of the Louvre Palace, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route leading out of Paris. The monument's iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail and set the tone for public monuments with triumphant nationalistic messages until World War I.
The monument stands over 51 meters (165 feet)in height and is 45 meters wide. It is the second largest triumphal arch in existence.Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus. The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that an early dare devil flew his plane through it. The Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. |
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| The Madeleine
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"La Madeleine", is a church in a commanding position in the 8th district of Paris, in its present form designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's Army.
The site of this edifice, centered at the end of rue Royale, a line-of-sight between Gabriel's twin hotels in the Place de la Concorde, required a suitably monumental end from the time the square was established in 1755, as Place Louis XV. The settlement round the site, called Ville l'Evêque, for it had belonged to the bishop of Paris since the time of Philip II of France, when Bishop Maurice de Sully seized the synagogue that stood on the site from the Jews of Paris in 1182, and duly consecrated it a church dedicated to Mary Magdelene. The site has been annexed to the city of Paris since 1722. |
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| The Opera House/Opera Garnier
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The Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra de Paris as well as the Opéra Garnier, is a 2,200 seat opera house at the northern end of the Avenue de l'Opera in the IXth district of Paris. A grand landmark designed by Charles Garnier in the Neo-Baroque style, it is regarded as one of the architectural masterpieces of its time.
Upon its inauguration in 1875, the opera house was officially named the National Academy of Music - Théâtre de l'Opera. It retained this title until 1978 when it was re-named the Théâtre National de l'Opera de Paris. |
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