Sightseeing + Tours
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| Canal St-Martin Rue Lafayette, (rue du Faubourg du Temple), Paris, 75010 |  |
Long a working-class neighborhood with an edge, the Canal St-Martin is the latest quartier to be reinvented by artists and young bohemians. Built in the early 1800s for industrial transport, the canal is spanned by hump-... more
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| Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris 6 Place du Parvis-de-Notre-Dame, (Quai aux Fleurs), Paris, 75004 | |
Notre-Dame is now viewed as one of the key defining examples of the style which was to become known as Ile-de-France Gothic, by the early nineteenth century few Parisians valued their medieval past very highly. Interest ... more
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| Opera Garnier 8 Rue Scribe, Paris, 75009 | |
All you loyal readers of my Nürnberg page (thanks again to both of you!) will recall that there I talked about the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) and his opera Iphigenie in Aulis, composed in 1774. Here i... more
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| Place des Vosges Quai du Marche Neuf, (Quai de L'horloge), Paris, 75004 | |
Situated in the heart of the Marais, the Place de Vosges is both Paris' oldest square and arguably its most beautiful. Begun in 1605 as residences for courtiers in the service of Henri IV and completed in 1612, with arca... more
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| Cimetiere du Montparnasse 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet, Paris, 75014 | |
In May the trees were all in blossom, and you could hear the wind rustling gently through them. The graves are easy to reach. Relatives, friends, and admirers have added personal touches to the gravestones, including flo... more
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| Chateau de Versailles Avenue de Paris, (place d'Armes), Versailles, 78000 | |
: Versailles is the most famous garden in the world. Yet ‘garden’ is scarcely a fitting designation. The scale is monumental and there is little sense of enclosure. Versailles was designed as a palatial centre ... more
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| Basilique du Sacre-Coeur 35 Rue du Chevalier-de-la-Barre, (Rue de la Bonne), Paris, 75018 | |
(bell tower) loom over Paris like a 12th-century Byzantine church. But it's not that old. After France's 1870 defeat by the Prussians, the basilica was planned as a votive offering to cure France's misfortunes. Rich and ... more
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| Sainte Chapelle 4 Boulevard du Palais, (on Ile de la Cite), Paris, 75001 | |
Cramped spiral stairs take you from the ground-level servants' chapel into the upper storey of the church. Almost modest in size, nearly stark, stone-floored, and without furniture except for a single bench running along... more
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| Parc Monceau 58 Boulevard de Courcelles, Paris, 75008 | |
Although the Parc Monceau is not very large by Paris standards, it is one of the most charming parks in Paris, and only about a half hour's walk from the Place de l'Opera. It is a park of shady walks, of leafy bowers, of... more
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| Tour Montparnasse Rue du Depart, Paris, 75015 | |
As long as you have to put up with such an (imo) ugly architectural lemon as Tour Montparnasse, make lemonade and take the fast elevator (~40 seconds) up to the top for some pix and an awesome view of Paris. This last tr... more
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