Hundreds of Pictures of Paris , France with map for tourists including : Tour Eiffel, Notre Dame, Louvres, Montmartre, Champs-Elysees, Place de la Concorde, Pompidou, Les Invalides, Père Lachaise, Les Halles.

A week end in the heart of Paris, France.

September 2005

Paris : Five years had already passed since my last trip to Paris and thanks to a very cheap special offer with the Thalys high speed train I was once again back in the French capital for a long three day week-end. The difference though this time is that I was for the first time equipped with a digital camera and a rather huge memory card which both combined held the potential for about 500 high quality pictures. A few days later and countless kilometers walked around Paris I had documented quite a large portion of the city that i can gladly share with you now.

Now to begin your journey through the streets of Paris you can either :

1. Start from the beginning and follow me throughout my entire 3 day journey which ammount to 450 pictured of Paris here

2. Go right to the links of your choice for pictures of places of interest in Paris found below

• Direct links to places of interest

	Eiffel tower : The Eiffel tower(French for : Tour Eiffel) is a puddled iron tower built on the Champ de Mars, beside the River Seine, in Paris, France. It is the most famous Paris landmark and is used as a symbol of the city. At the time of its construction in 1889 it was the tallest building in the world, and remained so until 1930. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, it is a premier tourist destination, with over 5.5 million visitors per year. The tower stands 324 meters (1,063 feet) high, including the antenna.

	Notre Dame of Paris : Notre Dame of Paris (French for Our Lady of Paris, meaning the church in Paris dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus), often known simply as Notre Dame in English, is a gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. While a major tourist destination, it is still used as a Roman Catholic cathedral (archbishopric of Paris). Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered the finest example of French gothic architecture. Notre Dame de Paris was one of the first gothic cathedrals, and was built throughout the Gothic period. Its sculptures and stained glass show the heavy influence of naturalism, giving them a warm human look that was lacking from earlier Romanesque designs.

	Louvres : The The Louvres museum (Musée du Louvre) in Paris, France, is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. The building, a former royal palace, lies in the centre of Paris, between the Seine river and the Rue de Rivoli. Its central courtyard, now occupied by the Louvre glass pyramid, lies in the axis of the Champs-Élysées, and thus forms the nucleus from which the Axe historique springs. Part of the royal Palace of the Louvre was first opened to the public as a museum on November 8, 1793, during the French Revolution.The first royal "Castle of the Louvre" on this site was founded by Philippe II in 1190, as a fortress to defend Paris on its west against Viking attacks. In the 14th century, Charles V turned it into a palace, but Francois I and Henri II tore it down to build a real palace; the foundations of the original fortress tower are now under the Salle des Cariatides (Room of the Caryatids).

	Basilica of the Sacré coeur : A Parisian Roman Catholic church and landmark, crowning the butte Montmartre ('Montmartre hill'), the highest point in Paris and one of its most visited monuments.The nineteenth century church was designed by the architect Paul Abadie (who died in 1884, when only the foundations had been laid), upon a tender, in the Romano-Byzantine architectural style. Its foundation stone was laid in 1875, and was built with the direct involvement of the Third French Republic, marking the foundation of the new French state whose constitutional laws were enacted that year. It was built, as the contemporaries put it, "pour expier les crimes des communards" (to atone for the communards' crimes) and is therefore a very controversial monument. It also was intended as a public monument to mark the memory of the many French citizens who lost their lives in the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1871.

	Centre Georges Pompidou : The Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971 – 1977) is a building in the Beaubourg area of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais. Designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, it houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information, a vast public library, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne. Some of the art movements represented are Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. The museum has 50,000 works of art (including painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography), of which 1,500 to 2,000 are on public display.Because of its location, the Centre is known locally as The beaubourg. The Centre's brutalist architecture may have been an inspiration for the similarly-named Borg cube.
	Champs-Elysees : The Champs-Élysées is a broad avenue in the French capital Paris. With its cinemas, cafés, and luxury specialty shops, the Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets in the world. The name refers to the Elysian Fields, the kingdom of the dead in Greek mythology. The avenue runs 3 km through the 8th arrondissement in northwestern Paris, from the Place de la Concorde in the east, with its obelisk, to the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, location of the Arc de Triomphe. The Champs-Élysées form part of the line of the Axe historique.. One of the principal tourist destinations in Paris, the lower part of the Champs-Élysées is bordered by green space and by such buildings as the Théâtre Marigny and the Grand Palais. The Élysée Palace is a little bit to the north, not on the avenue itself.

	Place de la Concorde : The Place de la Concorde seen from the Pont de la Concorde; in front, the Obelisk, behind, the Rue Royale and the Church of the Madeleine; on the left, the Hôtel de Crillon.The Place de la Concorde is one of the major squares in PariDuring the French Revolution the statue of King Louis XV was torn down and the area renamed Place de la révolution. In a grim reminder to the nobility of a gruesome past, when the "Place des Grèves" was a site where the nobility and members of the bourgeoisie were entertained watching convicted criminals being dismembered alive, the new revolutionary government erected the guillotine there. The first notable to be executed at the Place de la Révolution was King Louis XVI, on January 21, 1793. Other important people guillotined there, often in front of cheering crowds, were Queen Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame du Barry, Danton, Lavoisier, and Robespierre. The guillotine was most active during the "Great Terror", in the summer of 1794, when in a single month more than 1,300 people were executed.

	Les Invalides : Les invalides in Paris, France consists of a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to France's military history, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose. It is also the burial site for some of France's war heroes.King Louis XIV initiated the project by an order dated November 24, 1670, as a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers: the name is a shortened form of hôpital des invalides, the hospital for invalids. The architect of Les Invalides was Liberal Bruant. The selected site was suburban in the 17th century. By the time the enlarged project was completed in 1676, the river front measured 196 meters and the complex had fifteen courtyards, the largest being the cour d'honneur ("court of honor") for military parades.

	Père Lachaise : Les invalides in Paris, France consists of a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to France's military history, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose. It is also the burial site for some of France's war heroes.King Louis XIV initiated the project by an order dated November 24, 1670, as a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers: the name is a shortened form of hôpital des invalides, the hospital for invalids. The architect of Les Invalides was Liberal Bruant. The selected site was suburban in the 17th century. By the time the enlarged project was completed in 1676, the river front measured 196 meters and the complex had fifteen courtyards, the largest being the cour d'honneur ("court of honor") for military parades.

	Les Halles : Les Halles is an area of Paris, France, located in the 1er arrondissement. It is named for the large central wholesale marketplace, which was demolished in 1971, to be replaced with an underground modern shopping precinct, the Forum des Halles It is notable in that the open air center area is below street level, like a pit and contains sculpture, fountains, and mosaics. Beneath this lies the underground station Châtelet-Les-Halles, central hub of Paris's express metro system, the RER. Les Halles was the central Market in Paris. In 1183, King Philippe II Auguste enlarged the marketplace in Paris and built a shelter for the merchants, who came from all over to sell their wares. Known as Les Halles, in the 1850's they built the massive glass and iron buildings that Les Halles is known for. Les Halles was known as the "stomach of Paris".
	Town Hall of Paris : The Hotel de Ville (City hall) in Paris, France, is Paris city hall and is located in the place de l'Hôtel de Ville (formerly the place de Grève) in the City's IVe arrondissement. It serves multiple functions, housing the local administration, the Mayor of Paris (since 1977), and also being a venue for large receptions. The original Hôtel de Ville, started in 1533 with funding by King Francis I, and completed in 1628 under Louis XIII, was designed by Dominique de Cortone and Pierre Chambiges. It was set on fire by some extremists during the Paris Commune of 1871, and burnt entirely. The current building was designed by the architects Théodore Ballu and Pierre Deperthes, and replaced the earlier Hôtel de Ville on the same site. The rebuilt Hôtel de Ville is from the outside a perfect copy of the building that stood before 1871, using the stone shell that had survived the fire, while the inside was rebuilt in a new design, with ceremonial rooms lavishly decorated in the 1880s style.

	Trocadero : In the Battle of Trocadero, Trocadero being a fortified position on the Bay of Cádiz in the south of Spain, was captured on August 31, 1823, by French forces led by the duc d'Angoulême. The goal was to intervene against the liberal Spanish who were rebelling against the autocracy of Ferdinand VII. Trocadero restored the autocratic Spanish Bourbon Ferdinand to the throne of Spain, in an action that defined the Restauration. The name "trocadero" means an emporium or place of trade. The event was considered worthy of commemoration in Paris. The Place du Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement, is located on the hill of Chaillot bordering the Seine river. The "Seizieme" which connected Paris to the Bois de Boulogne remains the city's smartest district. For the 1878 international exposition, the Palais du Trocadéro was built here. Its purposes included the holding of meetings of international organizations during the fair. The palace's form was that of a large concert hall with two wings and two towers; its style was a mixture of historical ones, generally called "Moorish" but with some Byzantine elements.

	Gardens of the Tuileries : Louis XIV resided at the Tuileries Palace while Versailles was under construction. His garden designer André Le Notre laid out parterres for the Tuileries in 1664, but when the king left, the building was virtually abandoned; it was used only as a theater, and its gardens became a fashionable resort of Parisians. During the French Revolution, Louis XVI and his family were forced to return from Versailles to the Tuileries under house arrest, starting in October 1789. They tried to escape on the evening of June 20, 1791, but were captured at Varennes and were returned to the Tuileries. The Tuileries were later stormed on August 10, 1792 by the Paris mob, who overwhelmed and massacred the Swiss Guards; the royal family fled through the gardens and took refuge with the Legislative Assembly.

	Canal Saint-Martin : Stretching over 5km from the Square Flemaître (Rue du Faubourg du Temple) to the Rue Lafayette and the charming pool of La Villette, this canal enables boats to take a shortcut between the loops of the Seine. Since its creation in 1825, the canal has been made famous by authors and film directors. Tourists in Paris love sitting on the banks to watch the barges go by. Not to be missed if you are in the region !

	The Military school of Paris : Building of the École Militaire (French for military school) is a vast complex of buildings housing various military teaching facilities located in Paris, France southeast of the Champ-de-Mars. The École Militaire was founded by Louis XV for the military education of impoverished gentlemen of the nobility. Napoléon Bonaparte studied there. nowadays it hosts the Collège Inter armées de Defense (Cross-service Defense College) the Institut des Hautes Études de la Défense Nationale IHEDN which is the Institute of High Studies of National Defense.

	Arch of Triumph : The Arc de triomphe (french for: Arch of Triumph) is a monument in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place de l'Étoile, at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. It is the linch-pin of the historic axis (L'Axe historique) leading from the courtyard of the Louvre Palace, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route leading out of Paris. Its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain-mail and set the tone for public monuments with triumphant nationalistic messages until World War I. The monument stands over 50 metres (165 feet) in height and is 45 metres wide. It is the second largest triumphal arch in existence (North Korea built a slightly larger Arch of Triumph in 1982 for the 70th birthday of Kim Il-Sung); the Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that an early dare-devil flew his plane through it.

	Place de la Bastille : The Place de la bastille is a square in Paris, where the Bastille prison stood until it was stormed and subsequently torn down between July 14, 1789 and July 14, 1790 during the French Revolution. The square straddles 3 arrondissements of Paris, namely the 4th, 11th and 12th. At the centre of the square is the July Column (Colonne de juillet) which commemorates the events of the July Revolution (1830). On the square there is also the Opera Bastille and the Bastille metro station. The square is a popular venue for Parisians and tourists, and it is often home to concerts and other such events. The area northeast of bastille has a lively night life, with many cafés, bars, night clubs, and concert halls.

	Saint-Gervais : St-Gervais-et-St-Protais is a Paris church in 4. Arrondissement, on the back Paris city halls. In the same place in the years 1212-1420 a predecessor church was built. That gothical building of churches, a dreischiffige Basilika with transverse house and deeply aligning handling choir, was established starting from 1494. The choir was finished in the year 1540 and the arms of the transverse ship in the style of the Renaissance in the year 1578. The main ship with a length of approx.. 76 m around the year 1600 one completed. Nave and choir have as beautifully valid lategothical stellar vaults. Noteworthy however above all those is only 1616-21 established front of the church. It delighted of Salomon de Brosse (1571-1626), the architect of the palace you Luxembourg, and marks the beginning of the Style classique. This French kind of play of the baroque keeps firm at the arrangement thought the Renaissance

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