Tips 1 - 10 of 50 Paris Things to Do
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The arch is at the top of a hill in the center of the huge area of the Star - Etual. The area is named so because of 12 largest arteries of city miss. Now it has another name - Charles's de Gaulle Square. Napoleon started to build an arch in 1806 in honour of the Great Army . The construction was finished in 1836. The prototype of an arch was Konstantin's Arch in Rome, but Arc de Triomphe surpassed its sizes and magnificence. It has almost square form - height of 50 meters, width - 45 meters.
Unlike the Roman arch, it has only one flight, width of 15 meters that shelfs could pass under the Arch. Arches is decorated by huge bas-reliefs, each of which represents any fragment of history of France. The bas-relief "Marseillaise" which represents a campaign of volunteers in 1792 is most known. The basic victories of Napoleon are embodied in the top bas-reliefs, and on sculptural boards names of great battles are engraved.
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Address: Place Charles-de-Gaulle Etoile
Directions: Metro Line 1, 2, RER A : Charles-de-Gaulle Etoile
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The Cathedrale is constructed on a place of the Christian basils, that replaced, in turn, an aincient Roman temple. It was started to build in 1163, and by 1200 the facade was finished, and the construction of towers proceeded down to 1245. The Cathedral got its final view almost through two hundred years.
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Address: Place du parvis de Notre Dame , 75004
Directions: Métro: Cité; RER: Châtelet-Les Halles, Saint Michel-Notre Dame
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The destructions caused by time, people, tragedies of wars, within many centuries distorted its initial shape. In days of the French revolution the Cathedral was under threat of pulling down, but it was saved with dedication to the goddess of Reason which cult Robespier entered. In 1804 Napoleon was crowned in the Cathedral , and in 1871 it was nearly lost from a fire.
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Address: Place du parvis de Notre Dame , 75004
Directions: Métro: Cité; RER: Châtelet-Les Halles, Saint Michel-Notre Dame
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One of the most beautiful impression in Paris is Sainte Chapelle!
This chapel was constructed under the order of the Lui of the Ninth (Sacred) for storage of a relic of Passions Dominical - the Crown of thorns. King boughtthis relic in 1239 in Venice where it was brought from Constantinople. The chapel consists of two churches - bottom and top.
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Phone: 01 53 73 78 50
Address: Boulevard du Palais
Directions: Sainte-Chapelle is inside the Palais of Justice on Ile de le Cité-- a few minute walk from Notre Dame. Métro : Cité, Staint-Michel, or Châtelet. RER: Chatelet -Les-Halles, Saint-Michel
Website: http://www.pbase.com/francist/chap&page=all
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The bottom church in height of 7 meters forms the high basis for all design. From enormous windows of the Top church are coming to an end lancet turrets rise upwards.
The abrupt inclined roof finishes with a spike in height of 75 meters. As a whole all design differs ease. Structural elements make impression of a thin embroidery, a graceful lace.
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Phone: 01 53 73 78 50
Address: Boulevard du Palais
Directions: Sainte-Chapelle is inside the Palais of Justice on Ile de le Cité-- a few minute walk from Notre Dame. Métro : Cité, Staint-Michel, or Châtelet. RER: Chatelet -Les-Halles, Saint-Michel
Website: http://www.pbase.com/francist/chap&page=all
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Conciergerie - the severe, majestic building concerns to Phillip the Beautiful's time, that is by the end XIII - to the beginning of XIV centuries. Its name occurs from a word - "the royal dignitary". Since XVI century the building served as the state prison. Then, in days of Revolution, its chambers were occupied by thousand citizens, which spent here last hours before to rise on a guillotine. It was named the most overcrowded "room of expectation of a scaffold".
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Address: 1, quai de l'Horloge , 75001
Directions: Métro: Cité ; RER: Saint Michel-Notre Dame, Châtelet-Les Halles
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On a ground floor there is the Hall of guardsmen with the powerful columns supporting the Gothic arches, and a huge Hall of gendarmerie. This hall once was a royal dining room where simultaneously could have dinner about thousand visitors.
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Address: 1, quai de l'Horloge , 75001
Directions: Métro: Cité ; RER: Saint Michel-Notre Dame, Châtelet-Les Halles
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However any mention of Conciergerie causes times of Revolution in memory. Examining chambers and studying secrets of their device, we as though make a way of those doomed to death of people. Special interest is caused Maria Antoinette's with chamber where the queen contemptuously named "austrian", lead last days before execution. In the morning she cut off the hair and villages in a cart to go on a scaffold where several months ago there was executed her husband.
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Address: 1, quai de l'Horloge , 75001
Directions: Métro: Cité ; RER: Saint Michel-Notre Dame, Châtelet-Les Halles
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The Tower was built in the beginning of XVI century. It is one more bright sample of a "burning" gothic style. There are a lot of windows, alternating niches, spikes and turrets on which sculptures are installed. At the top of the Tower - Sacred Jacque's statue.
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Address: Square de la Tour St-Jacques 75004
Directions: Metro Chatelet
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Hotel de Ville is at the center of the extensive square which served as a place of a public execution during centuries. There is the Municipality of the city now. Earlier, in XVI century there was a building in style of Renaissance at this place. But it burned down in a fire of 1871, during battles which led to falling of the Commune.
The modern building was constructed in the same style later. All the complex with its pavilions topped by domes in the form of truncated pyramids, and with set of the statues placed everywhere, is impressive and original. Really, there are 136 statues at four facades, and at a terrace of a roof - statue of Etienne Marcel - the head of a guild of the Parisian merchants are totaled. He was an instigator of the disorders that shaken Paris in the XIV-th century.
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