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Hotel Saphir Grenelle - Paris - The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower

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.

Champs de Mars

The "Champs de Mars" is surrounded with monuments such as the Eiffel Tower and the Military academy. It is decorated with numerous statues and sculptures, and possesses a pond with fountains, a bandstand.

Hotel Saphir Grenelle - Paris - Champs de Mars

Hotel Saphir Grenelle - Paris - Tour Montparnasse
Tour Montparnasse


Inaugurated in 1974, this tower of 210 meters, is second only to the Eiffel Tower. 56 piles, sunk 70 meters underground, support this building combing offices and leisure spaces. At its feet spreads a lively district, which still retains the memories of the Roaring Twenties where, between the Rotonde and the Coupole, French and American artists and writers congregated to enjoy themselves, particularly during prohibition in the United States.

UNESCO

A Specialized Agency of the United Nations, UNESCO works throughout the world for a peace founded on dignity and unity. Member States created the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1946 for the purpose of advancing, through the educational and scientific, cultural and communication relations of the peoples of the world, the objective of international peace and the common welfare of mankind.
Inaugurated in 1958, the international headquarters of UNESCO is the most international building in Paris, both in terms of the membership of the Organization it houses (currently standing at 186 States) and in terms of its construction, for it is the combined work of the American Breuer, the Italian Nervi and the Frenchman Zehrfuss.
Hotel Saphir Grenelle - Paris - UNESCO

Hotel Saphir Grenelle - Paris - Invalides
Invalides

In 1670, King Louis XIV adopted the plans of Libéral Bruant for the construction of a hospital for invalided soldiers, otherwise condemned to begging or theft. The works, the second most significant, after those of Versailles commenced in 1671. The Soldiers church opened in 1677. However, it was not until 1706 that the consecration of the royal church, celebrated for its gilded dome, marked the end of the work. Today the Dome of the Invalides contains the ashes of Napoleon brought back in 1840.