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Citytrip: Paris (France)

Core2Duo 22 February 2007 Travel Tips 7 views No Comment  Print This Post

Paris, an irresistible city with a cosmopolitan mixture of charms: Culture, History, Museums, Kitchen, Shops, Markets, Amusements and savoir-vivre. With worldwide known monuments like: The Eiffel tower, The Arc de Triomphe, Les Invalides and the new Grande Arche de La Défense. With beautiful churches like the gothic Notre Dame, and Saint-Chapelle on the Ile de la Cité, The Sacré-Coeur and the magnificent basilisk of Saint-Denis where almost all of the kings were crowned and buried.

Louvre

Paris counts over 100 museums with unbelievable treasures. The Mona Lisa and the Venus of Milo in the Louvre with the glass pyramids, the impressionists in Musée d’Orsay in the former belle époque station. Museums with themes about the middle ages, Picasso, Rodin and Victor Hugo but also the new Centre Georges Pompidou.
 
The biggest flea market in the world between Porte de Saint-Ouen and Porte de Clignancourt exist of 13 parts. Variegated are also the markets Puces de Vanves, The market at Porte de Montreuil, on the Rue Mouffetard and the Marché d’Aligre.

Galeries Lafayette

If you want to go shopping, visit the large boulevards with department stores like Lafayette, and Le Printemps. The drugstores on the Champs-Elysées, The young fashion designers around Place de Victoires and the Marais, The delicatessen on The Place de la Madeleine, the new underground shopping centre in the Hallewijk.

It’s hard to choose when you are in a city with so many bars, cafés, bistros, brasseries, restaurants and terraces. Bring along a good guide or surprise yourself by a interior or the beautiful view on the city and her inhabitants.
The amusements has famous names such as Lido, Moulin-Rouge, Folies Bergéres, Paradis Latin. The Choices for a jazz club, discos or movie theatre are great.

Champs-Elysées

Paris is a really a town to discover by feet. Walking on the Champs-Elysées, following the Seine river, crossing the Pont Neuf, across the Jardin des Tuileries and Jardin du Luxembourg, to cafés where famous painters, poet writers and novels writers left there marks and the burial places where they rest. Through Montmartre, over the Avenues, the Squares and the nice abodes. There are also other ways to explore the city. Whether you are in the overground subways or on a boat crossing the Seine river, the experience is always the same: It’s hard to resist Paris.

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