PARIS i love
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France,situated on the
Seine River in the north of the country.french is the main language
spoken there & its also the fashion capital.
Tourism
List of tourist attractions in Paris
List of parks and gardens in Paris
The Arc de Triomphe - monument at the center of the Place de l'Étoile, commemorating the victories of France and honoring those who died in battle
The Conciergerie - located on the Île de la Cité; a medieval building which was formerly used as a prison where some prominent members of the ancien régime stayed before their death during the French Revolution
The Eiffel Tower - a construction of Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Universal Exposition
The Grand Palais - a large glass exhibition hall built for the 1900 Paris Exhibition
Les Invalides - complex containing museums and monuments relating to the military history of France
The Palais Garnier - Paris's central opera house, built in the later Second Empire period
The Panthéon - church and tomb of a number of France's most famed men and women
Place des Vosges - square in the Marais districte
Place Vendôme
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Tourism
Greater Paris (the city plus surrounding departments) received 22,4
million visitors in 2014, making it one of the world's top tourist
destinations. The largest numbers of foreign tourists in 2014 came from
the United States (2.74 million), the U.K., Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain
and China (532,000). Arrivals from the U.K, Germany, Russia and Japan
dropped from 2013, while arrivals from the Near and Middle East grew by
twenty percent.In 2014, visitors to Paris spent $17 billion (€13.58
billion), the third-highest sum globally after London and New York. In
2012, according to the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau, 263,212
salaried workers in the city of Paris, or 18.4 percent of the total
number, were engaged in tourism-related sectors: hotels, catering,
transport and leisure.
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| The Eiffel Tower, under construction in August 1888, | startled Parisians and the world with its modernity. |
List of tourist attractions in Paris
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| arc de triomphe |
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| louvre museum |
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| sacre coeur |
List of museums in Paris
Centre Georges-Pompidou - 20th-century modern art museum, hosting the Paris Museum of Modern Art
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie - a hands-on science museum that attracts over two million visitors yearly
The Louvre - one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument
Musée des Arts et Métiers - Museum of Arts and Crafts that houses
the collection of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
(National Conservatory of Arts and Industry), which was founded in 1794
as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and
inventions
Musée d'Orsay - 19th-century paintings, one of the largest Impressionist exhibits, housed in a former rail station
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle - National Museum of Natural History
Parc de la Villette - hosting the Cité des Sciences et de
l'Industrie, a science museum, and the Cité de la Musique, which houses
various musical institutes, a museum, and a concert hall
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| a pic taken from Eiffel Tower as full 360-degree view (river flowing from north-east to south-west, right to left) |
The Arc de Triomphe - monument at the center of the Place de l'Étoile, commemorating the victories of France and honoring those who died in battle
The Conciergerie - located on the Île de la Cité; a medieval building which was formerly used as a prison where some prominent members of the ancien régime stayed before their death during the French Revolution
The Eiffel Tower - a construction of Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Universal Exposition
The Grand Palais - a large glass exhibition hall built for the 1900 Paris Exhibition
Les Invalides - complex containing museums and monuments relating to the military history of France
The Palais Garnier - Paris's central opera house, built in the later Second Empire period
The Panthéon - church and tomb of a number of France's most famed men and women
Place des Vosges - square in the Marais districte
Place Vendôme
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