Paris, the city, and capital of France, situated in the north-central part of the country. People were living on the site of the present-day city, located along the Seine River some 233 miles (375 km) upstream from the river’s mouth on the English Channel (La Manche), by about 7600 BCE. The modern city has spread from the island (the Île de la Cité) and far beyond both banks of the Seine. Paris occupies a central position in the rich agricultural region known as the Paris Basin, and it constitutes one of eight départements of the Île-de-France administrative region.
A major European city and a global center for art, gastronomy, fashion, and art.
Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo, and Geneva. Air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle airport(the second busiest airport in Europe) and Paris–Orly Airport.
Landmarks like The Eiffel Tower, Louvre Museum, and the Gothic Notre Dame Cathedral are frequently visited, but most of all when city lights are illuminated, Paris turns into a city of love. Best place to be if one becomes engaged to be married.
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4 Best Places to visit
1.Louvre Museum
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Louvre Museum or French Musée du Louvre, official name Great Louvre or French Grand Louvre, national museum and art gallery of France, housed in part of a large palace in Paris that was built on the right-bank site of the 12th-century fortress of Philip Augustus.
The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as the Louvre castle in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum.
World’s largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France, and is best known for being the home of the Mona Lisa.
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2. Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in Toulouse France.
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If you are on a religious pilgrimage, I would suggest that you come to see this place with so much history behind it. I am standing right in front of the Main Chapelle of Our Lady of Lourdes Church and the Grotto where the miracle happens ( carrying with me a jug of miracle water for drinking for a long journey) in the year 1858.
A young 14-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous collecting firewoods with her sister and friend to buy some bread. After taking off her shoes to wade through the water near the Grotto of Massabeille came a dazzling light, and a white figure.” She was dressed all in white, apart from the blue belt fastened around her waist and the golden yellow roses, one on each foot, the colour of her rosary and claimed that the lady is Virgin Mary.
There were 18 apparitions that occurred before the end of the year and the Bernadette was asked by the Virgin Mary for a chapel be built on the site of the vision and told the girl to drink the water from a fountain that the girl was digging into the earth. The girl was subjected to criticism and denied her vision and mistreated.
After years of mistreatment, she was allowed to enter the convent and there she spent the rest of her life in prayer and seclusion. She died of Ill Health at the age of 35. In 1933 she was canonized as St. Bernadette by the Roman Catholic Church.
Today, millions travel to Lourdes to visit St. Bernadettes Grotto, whose waters supposedly have curative powers.
3.Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower represents a part of national heritage. The symbol of France and Paris for decades. In 1889, In commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the French Revolution, a competition was organized to build on the Champ-de-Mars an iron tower with a square base,125 meters wide, and 300 meters high. There were 107 proposals, and Gustave Eiffel’s was chosen. He was supported by Architect Maurice Sauvestre and Engineers by his side. It was constructed in 1887-1889 as the entrance to the 1889 Worlds Fair.
Nicknamed by the local as “La Dame de Fer“, French for , “The Iron Lady”.
There were a lot of concern regarding the building of the tower as it is a threat against the nature of Paris and it will disfigure the city’s appearance. The opposition nicknamed the tower as the, “SKELETON OF BEFFROI” a tower that will destroy the elegance of the city.
It had been established that the licensing rights of the tower would only be good for 20 years followed by destruction.
Gustave Eiffel so determined to save the tower went out of his way to prove its scientific utility as the “Radio Communication Tower for military use and Radiotelegraphy Communication” to make it more permanent and away from destruction. It served many purpose in the First World War. The tower was wind resistance.
The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated on March 31, 1889. Gustave Eiffel climbed the 1,710 steps to the top of the tower to place the tricolored French Flag at its summit. At the time the Tower was 312 meters high.
The tower has 3 levels for visitors, and restaurants on the first and second levels and the highest is the observation deck.
The list of 72 names of French Engineers, Scientists, and Mathematicians on the Eiffel Tower was engraved by Gustave Eiffel in recognition on their contributions to the construction of the tower.
4. Notre-Dame De Paris
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Notre-Dame de Paris, a 850 year old cathedral church in Paris. The most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages and distinguished for its size, antiquity, and architectural interest. It lies on the eastern end of the Ile de la Cite and was built on the ruins of two earlier churches.
It was constructed in 1163 and completed by 1260 under Bishop Maurice de Sully. Relics that are preserved at Notre-Dame are, Crown of Thorns, sliver of the true cross and a nail of the true cross.
The relics was taken by French King Louis IX and housed it at Sainte-Chapelle when it was built in 1242-48 to preserve and protect the Crown of Thorns and the rests of the artifacts that goes with it.
At present it is still under construction when a fire engulfed the cathedral on April 15,2015. The construction was put on hold due to the pandemic and the group of architects, engineers, and all the those involved in rebuilding the cathedral are patiently waiting to go back to work and hoping that it will be completed before 2024 according to President Emmanuel Macron.
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I would love to go here wirh my love one. Hoping one day we can travel in Europe. This blog post is very helpful for me who don’t have idea about Europe. Keep posting informative and creative blogs. Loveeee ittttt.
Thank you so much, Kurt. It is helpful when someone makes a comment about our destinations which will make me more creative and will strive more to make my posts engaging.
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Pilar