Louvre Museum, Paris
The Louvre Museum is one of the most important museums of the world by a large number of works of art that has, and the largest in Paris and the third in the world. It is impossible to visit all in one day. Located in district 1 in Cour Napoleon near the Musée d’Orsay.
His collection is impressive, you can not find the large number of pieces, sculptures and paintings have, since many of the rooms have closed because of staff shortages. Also try to restore I could see many sculptures.
All these collections are divided into several rooms, we are including Oriental antiques, Egyptian antiques, antiquities Greek, Etruscan and Roman, Islamic art, sculptures (in this room is a large collection of medieval sculptures, Renaissance and modern), the other rooms are divided between art objects, paintings and graphics (the latter can be seen on request).
The Louvre houses several masterpieces of universal art, which have achieved iconic status and are instantly recognizable anywhere in the world. Among them is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most famous portraits in the world, within the sculpture is the Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace.
If you arrive by public transport to the Louvre is the best option, as you indicated below. But if you come in your own car I remind you that the Louvre has an underground parking. The entrance is on Avenue du General Lemonnier. This park is open from 7:00 h to 23:00 h.
EIFFEL TOWER: The Symbol of Paris
The Eiffel Tower is the undisputed symbol of Paris, France, and even dare to say that in Europe. Is surely the first thing that comes to mind when we think of Paris. And this tower, designed and built in the Roaring Twenties, “gradually took that privileged place that until then disputed the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame and the Louvre.
The Eiffel Tower was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 to be held in commemoration of the centenary of the French Revolution. Gustave Eiffel and his company were the entrepreneurs of such a project starting in 1887 was completed in March 1889, just over two years later. The work generated no little controversy, especially among artists of the time, who thought of the tower as an “iron monster” in the middle of the city of romance.
When talking about technical features, the tower is a huge metal structure weighing about 10,000 tons and its height was originally 300 feet, is now 324 meters, including radio and television antenna was added much later. Employ some 200 workers who joined more than 18,000 pieces of iron with 2 million bolts. The foundation measure 30 meters in depth, due to the proximity to the river and the nature of the subsoil.
It consists of three levels, can be accessed through the first two steps, should be encouragement to join the 1665 steps up! Otherwise you can take the elevator, which normally have long queues … Continue reading
The Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
The Jardin des Tuileries, Catherine de Medici whim, is the oldest garden in town and was the first public garden.
[Jardin des Tuileries]
From the twelfth century this vast space had been occupied by factories “tuiles” (a kind of tiles, from which it derives its name) and orchards. In 1564, Catherine de Medicis had built there a palace, the Tuileries Palace, surrounded by a large garden Florentine style, where fountains adorned with sculptures stood out, a maze, lots of ornamental and fruit trees, lawns, potted flowers, garden and even a vineyard …
Large lavish receptions and parties were held in these gardens, which by then were the queen’s personal gardens and were surrounded by high walls. In 1594 they planted cypress trees and lots of mulberry trees for silkworm rearing. Stables and cages with birds also had their place in this small paradise. Continue reading
The Louvre Museum, Paris
The Louvre Museum is one of the most important and oldest in the world: Its art collections meet all ages and cultures around three hundred thousand pieces….
[The Louvre]
The Louvre Museum is the largest museum in Paris and the third in the world in area, with 160,000 square meters, of which just over 58,000 were devoted to exhibitions. Located on the 1st. District in the heart of Paris, is also one of the oldest museums in the world.
The origins of the Louvre Palace dating back to the Middle Ages.
King Philip Augustus, who reigned for 43 years, from 1180-1223, had endowed the city, then the most important and powerful on the continent, a large protective wall. 1190 saw the need to strengthen this wall with the building of a strong castle, the typical Medieval castle surrounded by trenches with a tower, the Grosse Tour du Louvre, to guard the gates of Paris danger threatened by Anglo-Norman. Continue reading
MOULIN ROUGE: The Most Famous Cabaret In The World
In a special moment in the history of France, a time between two wars, a time when freedom and the will to live filled with the spirit of the Moulin Rouge Parisian born, the world’s most famous cabaret, 6 October 1889, with the help of two big businessmen: Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler.
The place for the implementation of the cabaret was chosen with care, the Montmartre area was “fashionable” neighborhood where they gathered to drink disreputable characters and where they could meet loose women. The Dance of the Moulin Rouge, frequented in the beginning by the local people gradually also attracted aristocrats who attended also by mixing with the lower class. Continue reading
The Place de la Concorde, Paris
Over a thousand heads rolled under the guillotine in the square,
today the largest and most beautiful of Paris.
[Obelisk Place de la Concorde]
Place de la Concorde is the most beautiful square in Paris and larger. Its location offers spectacular views of one of the most attractive areas of the city: To the east, a perspective of the Jardin des Tuileries, the Arc du Carrousel and the Louvre, to the west, the Champs Elysees and the Arc Triumph. La Rue Royale opens north to reach the Church of the Madeleine, and across the Seine, across the Puente de la Concorde, stands the Palais Bourbon, seat of the National Assembly.
The center of the square is dominated by an imposing pink granite obelisk of Luxor over 3300 years old and almost 23 meters high, a gift from Egypt to France. In each of the corners of the square, octagonal, is a statue representing a French city: Brest, Rouen, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lille and Strasbourg. To the north and south of the obelisk, two monumental fountains depicting marine themes complete the square. Continue reading
Travel tip: Avignon
We went today to one of the most picturesque cities in France: Avignon. It is located on the left bank of the Rhone River, about 653 km southeast of Paris and 80 km northwest of Marseille.
In the Middle Ages, this magnificent city in southern France was the seat of the papacy from 1309 until 1377. From then until 1417, the Great Schism provoked papal venues were two. Avignon and Rome, resolved the conflict in favor of the Pope of Rome.
In that past, Avignon, has great artistic treasure that has achieved membership in the list of World Heritage of UNESCO since 1995. Especially the Papal Palace, the largest Gothic buildings of the Middle Ages with over 11,000 square meters. Its walls reach 5 meters in thickness!
It is located on the Place du Palais des Papes, on a hill overlooking the city from the north with the River Rhone at his feet. Continue reading
The town of Vezelay in France
Vezelay is tiny, is located in central France and climbs over the crest of a hill; because that’s how cities were built give the Middle Ages to defend major. Con few hundred inhabitants, has two luxuries that travelers sensitized should not skip.
On one side is the great basilica of Vezelay Square facing spot with his strong Roman and after 700 years attests to the power of faith in a time where nothing was secular. Furthermore, Vezelay has the surrounding landscape, a horizon of valleys and gentle slopes of almost incomparable beauty, whose distance can be seen from anywhere in the city. Continue reading
Visit Paris
Paris really beautiful city, many places we can visit in paris. for instance, paris plage, the Canal du Midi, etc.
Clearly, the beaches, with all the paraphernalia that lead (read loungers, sunbathing, sports activities and idle of all persuasions, etc.) are one of the attributes that increase the attractiveness of a city choosing the fate of our holiday. Most striking is that these beaches are not in coastal cities, like the Paris Plage, located in the heart of the French capital, which, moreover, abounds in all kinds of tourist attractions.
A great option to spend Easter with family or a group of friends is to travel from east to west the southern French countryside aboard a charter boat on a cruise along the Canal du Midi.
The Canal du Midi and Canal du Midi is the waterway that links France Garonne River in Toulouse, the Mediterranean Sea. This is the waterway in Europe’s longest running and is now used for tourism, leisure and even as housing channel recorded a fifth of the French river tourism, even above the Seine.
Hotel de Paris. The designer has achieved a timeless mix between the past the place and its fantastic true story, using the finest materials and sofiticacióin baroque.
