ATTRACTIONS OF PARIS

Paris, has an annual 30 million foreign visitors, and so is the most visited city in the world. Paris' sights include monuments and architecture, such as its Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower and neo-classic Haussmannian boulevards and buildings as well as museums, operas and concert halls. There are also more modern attractions such as its suburban Disneyland Paris.

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ATTRACTIONS OF PARIS: Arc de Triomphe, Bateau Mouche, Champs Elysees, Disneyland Paris, Eiffel Tower, Fountains of Paris, Grande Arche, Grand Palais, Les Invalides, Louvre Museum, Medici Fountain, Montmartre, Musee d'Orsay, Notre Dame du Paris, Palais Garnier, Pantheon, Pompidou Centre, Pont Neuf, Pont Royal, Sacre Coeur,

ARC DE TRIOMPHE The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, also known as the Place de l'Étoile. It is located at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. The triumphal arch honours those who fought for France, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars ...

BATEAU MOUCHE Bateaux Mouches are open excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris, France, with a view of the city from along the river Seine. These boats are popular tourist attractions in Paris. Many seat several hundred people, often with an open upper deck and an enclosed lower deck ...

CHAMPS ELYSEES The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is a prestigious avenue in Paris, France. With its cinemas, cafés, luxury specialty shops and clipped horse-chestnut trees, the Avenue des Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world, and one of the most expensive strips of real estate in Europe ...

DISNEYLAND PARIS Disneyland Paris is a holiday and recreation resort in Marne-la-Vallée, a new town in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. The complex is located 32 km from the centre of Paris. Disneyland Paris comprises two theme parks, a retail, dining and entertainment district, and seven Disney-owned hotels ...

EIFFEL TOWER The Eiffel Tower is a 19th century iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris, is the single most visited paid monument in the world ...

FOUNTAINS OF PARIS The Fountains in Paris originally provided drinking water for city residents, and now are decorative features in the city's squares and parks. Paris has more than three hundred fifty fountains, the oldest dating back to the 16th century. The building of monumental fountains was interrupted by the French Revolution ...

GRANDE ARCHE La Grande Arche de la Défense is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense to the west of Paris. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche. A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand ...

GRAND PALAIS The Grand Palais (Big Palace) is a large glass exhibition hall that was built for the Paris Exhibition of 1900. It is located in the 8e arrondissement of Paris, France. Built at the same time as the Petit Palais and the Pont Alexandre III, four architects were involved ...

LES INVALIDES Les Invalides in Paris, France, is a complex of buildings in the city's 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose ...

LOUVRE MUSEUM The Musée du Louvre, or officially the Grand Louvre - in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre - is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris, France and is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement ...

MEDICI FOUNTAIN The Medici Fountain is a monumental fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement in Paris. It was built in about 1630 by Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV of France and regent of King Louis XIII of France. It was moved to its present location and extensively rebuilt in 1864-66 ...

MONTMARTRE Montmartre is a hill (the butte Montmartre) which is 130 meters high, giving its name to the surrounding district, in the north of Paris in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed Basilica of the Sacré Coeur on its summit and as a nightclub district ...

NOTRE DAME DU PARIS Notre Dame de Paris (in English: Our Lady of Paris), also known as Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic, Roman Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the cathedral of the Catholic archdiocese of Paris ...

MUSEE D'ORSAY The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts edifice built between 1898 and 1900. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography ...

PALAIS GARNIER The Palais Garnier, also known as the OpEra de Paris or Opera Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Opera, is a 2,200-seat opera house on the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France, which was the primary home of the Paris Opera from 1875 until 1989. A grand landmark designed by Charles Garnier in the Neo-Baroque style ...

PANTHEON The Pantheon (from Greek, meaning every god) is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris, containing the remains of distinguished French citizens. In 1744, King Louis XV of France suffered from a serious illness and vowed to replace the old church of the Abbey of St Genevieve if he recovered ...

POMPIDOU CENTRE Centre Georges Pompidou (known as the Pompidou Centre) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture. It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information, a vast public library ...

PONT NEUF The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. Its name, which was given to distinguish it from older bridges that were lined on both sides with houses, has remained. Standing by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was the heart of medieval Paris ...

PONT ROYAL The Pont Royal is a bridge crossing the river Seine in Paris. It is the third oldest bridge in Paris, after the Pont Neuf and the Pont Marie. The Pont Royal links the Right Bank by the Pavillon de Flore with the Left Bank of Paris between rue du Bac and the rue de Beaune. The bridge is constructed with five elliptical arches ...

SACRE COEUR The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Coeur Basilica is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris, France. A popular landmark, the basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city ...

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