Districts and Sightseeing in Paris.
There are 20 districts in Paris, their numbers start from Louvre and go spirally clockwise.
From the first to the fifth districts.
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| Tuileries garden |
Tuileries garden (le Jardin des Tuileries); Holy Chapel (la Saint-Chapelle); majestic medieval castle
– La Conciergerie,
a former royal palace and a prison; Zero kilometer (Point zéro), the starting
point of all French roads; Pont-Neuf,
built in the middle of the XVI century; embankment
Orfevres (Quai des Orfèvres); the
Vendome Square (Place Vendôme),
one of the «five royal squares» in Paris; Rivoli’s
Street (Rue de Rivoli), one of the longest and well-known in Paris (3
km.); the Concord Square (Place
de la Concorde), where the Luxor obelisk from Egypt is situated, it is 23 m
height and 250 tons weight.
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| La Conciergerie |
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| Concord Square |
Such
obelisks, which are also called «Cleopatra's Needle», can be found only in two
cities - London and New York. In this square, eight tremendous statues are also
located, depicted cities of France. In this district you may also find famous
and the first department store - La
Samaritainе http://projet.samaritaine.com/, the Vendome Square with
the most expensive jewelry boutiques and a huge underground shopping mall, – Forum les
Halles.
The second
district is the Bourse (Arrondissement de la
Bourse), located on the northern shore of the Seine to the Grands Boulevards,
and founded in the XIX century on the site of the medieval city walls of Paris.
Here you may find Boulevard des Capucines
(Boulevard des Capucines), which is one of the four grands boulevards in Paris;
among the most important historical monuments of the county – Brongniart Palace (1826) (Palais Brongniart), http://www.palaisbrongniart.com/?langue=en.
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| Brongniart Palace |
The Paris
Bourse, is the official stock market which gave the name of the district.
In addition, here is the famous Basilica
of Notre - Dame-des - Victoires (1629-1740); and the largest cinema in
Europe - le Grand Rex (2650 seats). If you want to feel the spirit of this
district, just walk around the boulevard Sebastopol. Where you will find a lot
of shops (with souvenirs, unique jewelry, and the latest fashion clothes) and
beautiful architectural ensembles, this place is known for its majestic
buildings constructed at the beginning of the XX century for large textile
syndicates and most major newspapers and magazines. The architects used new
techniques, when the stone walls of the building, are hidden behind the glass
facade. A remarkable example of such construction can be found at: 124 rue
Reaumur (architect Georges Chedanne, 1905). It will be interesting to visit the
center which has been known historically as a multicultural textile and garment
manufacturing district – Quartier du
Sentier; the Cairo Square (La
Place du Caire), the medieval fortress tower – Tour de Jean sans Peur.
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| Basilica of Notre - Dame-des - Victoires |
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| Marais |
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| Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris |
The fourth district – the Hotel de Ville (Hôtel-de-Ville), is
located on the right bank of the river Seine. Such world-famous sightseeing as:
Paris City Hall, National Center of Art and Culture Georges Pompidou (Centre
national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou) and the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Republic
Square (Place de la République) and Vosges
(Place des Vosges), the oldest town square, Place
de la Bastille (Place de la Bastille) and the Stravinsky Square (Place des Stravinski), the Notre Dame Bridge (Pont Notre -Dame) are situated here. This
district is a real pearl for those, who like art, the most interesting for you
are: Carnival (Carnavalet), where you
will find:
- the Museum of the History of Paris, Picasso Museum (Musée national Picasso), website: www.musee-picasso.fr,
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- the Museum of Art and History of Judaism.
Geographically,
District IV refers to the small island of St. Louis (Ile Saint-Louis), famous
for its bridges: Marie (1635), St. Louis (connects St. Louis and the Cité)
Turnel, Louis -Philippe and Sully. The construction of bridges refers to the
XVI-XIX centuries.
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| Paris City Hall |
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| Sorbonne University |
