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Central Hôtel - hotel Paris
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Eiffel Tower  |
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Set up as 1889 by Gustave Eiffel on the occasion of the World Fair, the speedboat of which she was, the Eiffel Tower, of its 350 metres high, stays the up Paris in the edges of the Seine. |
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Notre Dame Cathedral |
Monument impressing, Notre Dame dominates all the religious architecture of the Ile-de-France. The works of construction begin in 1163 to end 200 years later (in 1345 exactly).
The exhaltation of romantic Victor Hugo, through his novel " Notre Dame de Paris", allowed the whole world to discover the cathedral.
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What strikes generally the guests it is the facade consisted of majestic doors and stained glasses in the form of rosettes, but also these strange statues, among the saints, that we name collectively "gargoyles", and what gives the feeling that they are going to fly away.
To describe facades and the body of the monument would be too exhaustive: meeting on the Island of the Town and contemplate one of the most beautiful cathedrals of France. |
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Champs Elysées |
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In 1804 Napoleon 1st gave a magnificent reception here on the occasion of his marriage to Marie-Louise. From the end of the 19th century the gardens of the Champs-Elysées welcomed walkers who had come to enjoy the leisures offered by the Avenue that had become a showcase for progress. From the Bal Mabille to the Lido, from the Café des Ambassadeurs to Fouquet's, from the Panorama to the theaters walkers can discover the latest evolutions in technology, industry, automobiles or the cinema.
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Montmartre |
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Before the construction of the basilica of the Sacred Heart, in a style Byzantine romano, the hill was a small village situated outside surrounding walls strengthened by Paris.
The basilica is the metaphor of the condemnation of the sins of the inhabitants of Paris: sinned which would have caused the defeat of the French army in front of the Prussia in 1870. |
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Saint Germain des Prés |
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In the 1920's the St Germain quarter was the meeting place for the students, artists and writers of the Left Bank. After the German occupation it was the most fashionable district for jazz musicians, Jean-Paul Sartre and his existentialists, not forgetting Albert Camus and Boris Vian an artist of eclectic talents, a jazz trumpeter, a poet and novelist, who contributed greatly to the image of St Germain. The district became fashionable particularly because of the American Press, flattered at this acknowledgement of jazz, American music, much more appreciated in the City of Light than in the country where it was born. |
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