The Pantheon

 

The Pantheon is a neoclassical monument of the Pantheon located on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter. It is surrounded by the Town Hall including the 5th arrondissement, Lycée Henri-IV, the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont Sainte-Geneviève Library and the Faculty of Law. Street Soufflot it draws a perspective to the Luxembourg Gardens.

Originally planned in the eighteenth century for a church to house the shrine of St. Genevieve, now this monument intended to honor great figures who marked the history of France.

The different designs of its construction, decoration, inscriptions and symbols contained therein, to scroll through the slow construction and contrasting the French nation.

This monument is open to the public and managed by the " Centre des monuments nationaux ".

Paris

Visit of Paris

Louvre Museum

The Louvre is one of the largest museums in the world and the largest museum in Paris and its area of 210,000 m2 including 60,600 for the exhibitions. Located in the heart of the city, between the right bank of the Seine and the rue de Rivoli, in the first district, the building is a former royal palace, the Louvre. The equestrian statue of Louis XIV constitutes the starting point of the historic axis, but the palace is not aligned on this axis. The Louvre has a long history of artistic and historic conservation of France from the Capetian kings today.

Universal museum, the Louvre includes a chronology and a wide geographical area, from antiquity to 1848, Western Europe to Iran, through Greece, Egypt and the Middle East. It consists of eight departments: Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Islamic Art, Sculpture, Works of Art, Paintings, Graphic Arts and has 35,000 works in 60,600 m2 of rooms. Works in the museum are varied in nature: paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, archaeological and art among others. Among the most famous pieces of the museum are the Code of Hammurabi, the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, and Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. The Louvre is the most visited museum in the world, with 8.5 million visitors in 2010.

In Paris, several national museums are complementary collections of the Louvre Museum.

Montparnasse Tower

This tower is a skyscraper located in the Necker (15th arrondissement) of Paris. Its height of 209 m or 210 m depending on the source, in fact for a long time the tallest building in France, before the completion of the First Tower in 2011. It was designed by architects Jean Saubot, Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis Hoym Marien.
At its construction, this skyscraper was the tallest office building in Europe and stayed for nearly twenty years, until the construction of the Messeturm in Frankfurt in 1990. The tower has 7200 windows  and 40 000 m2 of facade.

The Sacrée Coeur

The Sacrée Coeur, called the National Vow, at the top of Montmartre, Paris is a major religious building.

Its construction was ordered by a law passed by the National Assembly of 1871 in July 1873 as part of a new "moral order" following the events of the Paris Commune. With more than ten million pilgrims and visitors each year (in 2006), is the second monument of France's most visited after the Effeil Tower.

The Effeil Tower : History in image

Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile often simply called Arc de Triomphe, built from 1808 to 1835 on the orders of Napoleon is located in Paris's 8th arrondissement, on the Place de l'Étoile, at the western end Avenue des Champs-Elysées, 2.2 km from Place de la Concorde. 50 meters high, 45 meters wide and 22 meters deep, it is managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux. The height of the large arch is 29.19 meters and 14.62 meters wide. The small vault, meanwhile, measuring 18.68 m high and 8.44 m wide.

The Place de l'Étoile form a huge roundabout twelve avenues breakthroughs in the nineteenth century under the leadership of Baron Haussmann, then prefect of the Seine. These avenues "radiate" the star around the square, including the Avenue Kleber, Avenue de la Grande Armee, the Avenue de Wagram, and of course, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Paving stones of different colors draw on the floor instead of two stars whose peaks reach for one in the middle of the streets, the other between the avenues.

Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris.

It is located on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris. Its western facade dominates the square of Notre Dame - Jean-Paul II.

The construction is extended over many decades (two centuries), the style is not a complete uniformity: it has characters and early Gothic (sexpartite vaults of the nave) and the Gothic. Two roses that adorn each arm of the transept are among the largest in Europe, measuring 13 meters in diameter each. It was upon its completion one of the largest cathedrals in the West.

After the turmoil of the Revolution, the cathedral has undergone from 1844 to 1864 a major restoration and sometimes controversial led by the architect Viollet-le-Duc, who has incorporated elements and patterns that the monument left by the Middle Ages had never possessed.

Paris, 27th most populous city in the world.

Paris is a set of the most famous cities in the world, by the beauty of it city and its population. It is also famous for its monuments and its art. Every body in the world know this city and want to visit it.

Some practical informations about Paris : 

Country : France

Region : Ile de France

Mayor : Bertrand Delanoë (2008-2014)

Land area : 17,174 . 4 km2  

Population : 12,161,542

Website : http://www.paris.fr

The Eiffel Tower

Effeil Tower by night

The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower 324 meters high, located in Paris, north-west of the park Champ de Mars beside the Seine. Built by Gustave Eiffel and his staff for the Paris Exposition of 1889, and originally called "tower 300 meters," this monument has become the symbol of the French capital, and a major tourist site: it is second site of French cultural paying the most visited in 2011, with 7.1 million visitors, 75% of foreigners in 2011.
At a height of 312 meters behind the Eiffel Tower remained the highest monument in the world for 41 years. The second level of the third floor, sometimes called fourth floor, located at 279.11 m, is the highest observation deck open to the public in the European Union and the highest in Europe, as one of the Ostankino Tower Moscow peaking at 360 m remain closed to the public following the fire in 2000. The height of the tower was increased by several times the installation of many antennas, peaking at 324 m. Used in the past for many scientific experiments, it now serves as a transmitter of radio and television programs.