paren nyawi's blog: Travelogue:Paris (France)-Dec 2013

Paris is TOP 3 -the most visited cities in the world 2013 by FORBES.COM & TOP 2 as the most-romantic-cities in the world(Ucityguide) & Eiffel Tower is most visited paid monument in the world.

KL- PARIS: DEC 2013

The Eiffel Tower
is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineerGustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it has become both a globalcultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011.The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010.

Moulin Rouge
is a cabaret in Paris, France.
The house was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia.
Moulin Rouge is best known as the spiritual birthplace of the modern form of the can-candance. Originally introduced as a seductive dance by the courtesans who operated from the site, the can-can dance revue evolved into a form of entertainment of its own and led to the introduction of cabarets across Europe. Today, Moulin Rouge is a tourist attraction, offering musical dance entertainment for visitors from around the world. The club's decor still contains much of the romance of fin de siècle France.

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile
is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named Place de l'Étoile), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.It should not be confused with a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre. The Arc de Triomphe (in English: "Triumphal Arch") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and theNapoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.

The Musée d'Orsay
is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French artdating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne,Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.

The Tuileries Garden
is a public garden located between the Louvre Museum and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Created by Catherine de Medicis as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was eventually opened to the public in 1667, and became a public park after the French Revolution. In the 19th and 20th century, it was the place where Parisians celebrated, met, promenaded, and relaxed

Sculpture in the Tuileries Garden

Tuileries Garden

Tuileries Garden panorama

The Louvre or Louvre Museum
is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on theRight Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement(district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet). With more than 9.7 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum.

Paris City Hall
The Paris City Hall (Hotel de Ville) has been at the heart of political and social life in Paris since 1500.
The Paris City Hall is the largest in Europe. Although the city of Paris is relatively small with 2 million people, the Paris City Hall exerts its influence over the 12 million people Paris region.

The Seine River
is a 776 km long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Source-Seine, 30 kilometers northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre(and Honfleur on the left bank).^[1] It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, 120 km (75 mi) from the sea. Over 60% of its length, as far as Burgundy, is negotiable by commercial riverboats and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating;excursion boats offer sightseeing tours of theRive Droite and Rive Gauche within the city of Paris.

Notre-Dame de Paris "Our Lady of Paris",
, is a historic Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France.^[2] The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architectureand among the largest and most well-knownchurch buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.

Love padlocks on the bridge
The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the Seine River. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the "Palais des Arts" under the First Empire).

Orsay Museum, seen from the right bank of the Seine river

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
is a triumphal arch in Paris, located in the Place du Carrousel on the site of the former Tuileries Palace. It was built between 1806 and 1808 to commemorate Napoleon's military victories of the previous year. The more famous Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile nearby was designed in the same year, but it took thirty years to build and is about twice the size