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Eiffel Tower Paris

1075 Reviews The Eiffel Tower (French: la Tour Eiffel) is a monument in Paris and one of the most visited attractions in France. He stands on the left bank of the Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The...

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The Hall of Mirrors ( La Galerie des Glaces ) Versailles

49 Reviews The Hall of Mirrors is by far the most impressive of the rooms in the Versailles Palace. The principal feature of this famous hall is the seventeen mirror-clad arches that reflect the seventeen...

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Montmartre - Sacré Coeur Paris

717 Reviews We were surprised how few people had paid the Euro5 entry fee (2008 price) to climb up the narrow and steep spiral staircases to the dome of the Sacré Coeur Basilica. It's possible to walk all round...

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Basins, fountains and statues Versailles

79 Reviews Are you still thinking what I mentioned earlier? Yes, the Sun King was green with ENVY at one point in his life and it was one of those things that led to the creation of Versailles... The King had...

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Louvre Paris

927 Reviews It is not clearly why, but Frenchmen "guessed" to make an entrance to the museum of the glass pyramid which is situated in a court yard. Such "innovation" offered and won a competition an American...

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Gardens Versailles

74 Reviews The park was stretched at 1700 hectares and amazes with its regularity and reasonableness. A geometrical lay-out of the area around the palace symbolized representation of the monarch about himself...

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Notre Dame de Paris Paris

856 Reviews The last architect of the Cathedral - Viollet-le-Duc gave vent to his imagination in the middle of the XIX-th century. He created the irreal world of chimeras - the demons looking ironically and...

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Grand Trianon castle Versailles

26 Reviews Louis XIV particularly liked the Trianon and would stay there in the summer for short “holidays” close to the castle of Versailles but away from the strict obligations of the royal court. He occupied...

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Arc de Triomphe Paris

592 Reviews The Arc de Triomphe or the Triumphal Arch, a triumphal arch and one of the famous landmark of Paris, in the 8th arrondissement. The building stands on the Place Charles de Gaulle, one of the busiest...

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Hameau de la reine Versailles

16 Reviews The Kingdom of Marie Antoinette occupies only a small part of the area covered by the gardens of Versailles , in the far right corner. open daily except on public holidays and days with official...

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Latin Quarter Paris

95 Reviews "Rive gauche", the left bank, is slightly different from the other side, dominated by students and cultural activities. Of course, shopping is the "cultural activity" for many people (no, I'm not...

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Petit Trianon castle Versailles

16 Reviews It was not without emotion that I pushed my head in the entry (one does not go further) of the theatre of Marie-Antoinette. This simple building located at a hundred meters of the palace of the Petit...

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Versailles Paris

266 Reviews It's one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in that time period. The chateau is ornate and the designs and gardens exemplified symmetry and precision. The history of this edifice is...

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The Palace of Versailles Versailles

48 Reviews The palace has two floors. On the ground floor there are dophin apartments - royal children. On the second floor there are main apartments, and also apartments of the king and the queen. Besides in...

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Champs Elysées Paris

227 Reviews Well-known av des Champs-Elysees begins to the east from place de la Concorde. Now it is the central highway of Paris. That means "paradise fields " as elisium means in Greek "paradise". The...

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Grands Appartements du Roi et de la Reine Versailles

12 Reviews When visiting the drawing-rooms of Venus, Abundance, Diane and Mars one can imagine going back a few centuries and attend one of the evening receptions which Louis XIV offered to the Court in his...

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Disneyland Paris Paris

195 Reviews We first thought we wouldn´t go to Disneyland, that we are too old for that. But then at the tourist info I started to read about it and noticed that there is that new thing, the Disneyland studios....

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Saint-Louis cathedral Versailles

6 Reviews Interesting to see a burial Memorial and bust inside the church, of JULES HARDOUIN MANSART, b.1646 - 1708, a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque...

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Musée d'Orsay Paris

316 Reviews Given my well documented love of railway stations and enjoyment of 'popular' (some would venture 'middlebrow') art, there was never really any doubt that I was going to enjoy the Musée d'Orsay. What I...

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Galeries de l'Histoire de France Versailles

3 Reviews The HALL of BATTLES is the largest room of the palace with 120 m of length and 13 m width. Under Louis XIV this South wing consisted of princely apartments on the first floor and apartments for...

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Dômes - Hôtel des Invalides Paris

270 Reviews The Hotel of Invalides was constructed in classical style in 1679-1709. Its dome decorated by a gold ornament with a graceful small lamp at a spike in height of 107 m. The ashes of Napoleon...

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Galeries du XVIIe siècle Versailles

3 Reviews It is by the entrance of the "Cour Royale" to the northern wing that the traditional visit of the castle of Versailles begins. The 17th c. galleries are the part of the Palace circuit coloured in blue...

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Jardins du Luxembourg Paris

145 Reviews in FRench but the dates and hours can be read i think, from the Senate site official jardin du luxembourg, as I worked off montparnasse go there everymonth now. You will be able to see the closing...

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Sainte-Chapelle Paris

156 Reviews One of the most beautiful impression in Paris is Sainte Chapelle! This chapel was constructed under the order of the Lui of the Ninth (Sacred) for storage of a relic of Passions Dominical - the Crown...

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La Défense Paris

135 Reviews magical area with a huge shopping center, lots of restos and bar ,a gorgeous modern arche, and great views over the other arc and the Champs-Elysées. line 1 metro takes you there and out, plus bus 73...

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Poissy: Villa Savoye

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What can I say about this house . . . visiting it made me remember why once I decided to become architect! As introduction I could say that the visit of this “machine à habiter” is a must for any architect or architecture lover. The villa was built between 1928 and 1931 as the weekend home of the Savoye family, a couple of bankers who gave the architect total freedom to express himself. With this villa Le Corbusier broke with traditional architecture and settled the five points of New Architecture: -stilts, creating a “box in the air” -roof gardens: the flat roof becomes a usable terrace where plants can be planted-open plan: thanks to reinforced concrete and stilts you can have huge free spaces-free-floating façade: free of the load-bearing structure architect is more free to design façades-horizontal window, thanks to non load bearing façades Another concept applied to this house is...

Provins: underground town

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People say that in Provins there is the high town, the down town . . . and the underground town. And it is true because there are km and km of subterranean galleries, vaulted halls and even crypts! In Provins all houses have two parts: the upper part with its façade and the underground part consisted most of the times of a vaulted hall. The underground passages are mainly from the XIIIth century and they are so vast that have been divided into three categories: -the civil passages used for people’s communication or shelter-the military passages used as warehouses-as sheets and woollen clothes warehouses when Provins was an important centre of production of these goodsA fourth category has been recently discovered and it seems to be older than the other three ones and it is full of inscriptions and strange symbols of unknown meaning. Maybe these corridors were meeting places for strange...

Provins: town of Medieval Fairs

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Provins is a smiling Medieval town 70km at the south east of Paris well known for its medieval fairs. It was the capital of the Counts of Champagne and thanks to their protection and it strategic position the town became one of the main places to do business in the Medieval Europe during the XIIth and XIIIth centuries. The urban layout was designed for this purpose and you still can see it. Also interesting are its fortifications which are 1200 metres long and have 22 towers. From the Tour César (XIIth century), for example, you will have gorgeous views over the town (pictures 2 and 3).Provins has 58 “buildings” registered on the French inventory of Historical Buildings so the town can keep you busy for a whole day or more. I enjoyed especially La Grange aux Dîmes a typical house-museum from the XIIIth century where different objects and mannequins show you how was life and customs in...

Auvers sur Oise: Musée de l'Absynthe

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The story of this museum begins with the curiosity of a woman who found a “strange spoon” in a flea market. The seller told her about the absinthe, “that drink that makes people crazy!” A passion was born and she started to collect anything related with this drink. The absinthe was at the beginning a good health elixir but soon became a “pleasure drink” with many adepts. In Paris it was especially drunk in bourgeois cafés. This alcoholic drink (72º) , this “fée verte” (green fairy) became also the muse of some writers and artists like Rimbaud, Verlaine, Gauguin, Van Gogh or Toulouse Lautrec, who used to mix it with cognac calling this particular cocktail “des tremblements de terre!” :-))) During the absinthe’s height it was produced everywhere in France and any village had its own distillery. But later, when people discovered its consequences, it is crazy to see through all the...

Spend Nights at Moret-sur-Loing

by hquittner

Moret is an interesting and typical small French town with a number of sites to explore and restful atmosphere. There are modest but good stress freel accommodations, which makes it good base from which to use a car to visit Fontainbleau and Vaux-le-Vicomte which are nearby. We have enjoyed it and have several Tips on Moret.

At Ecouen Visit the Chateau & Renaissance Museum

by hquittner

The National Musee de la Renaissance is situated in the Chateau d'Ecouen. It is only 8 miles from Charles de Gaule Airport by the D104 (the Francilien). As a way to start a driving tour of Burgundy, and before jet-lag hit, we visited the Chateau and the museum which is installed in We spent two hours doing this and would have had lunch there as well before going onward (but this was long ago and the restaurant did not exist then). It can be easily accessed from Paris. Read our pages about it.

Provins Is a Walled Town Near Paris

by hquittner

Although Provins can be reached by rail from the Gare de l'Est in a little over 1 hour, we enjoyed itmuch more by staying there overnight (actually two nights). It is an easy drive from either de Gaulle or Orly Airports and makes for a fine place to unwind after a long flight or a last day/night before departing for home. There are many Tips about it under its site.

Visit the Palace at Fontainebleau

by hquittner

Fontainebleau town (pop.20K) is 60 km SE of Paris (Seine-et-Marne, #77). There are 3 ways to visit the Palace there: 1) by commercial tours from Paris, 2) independently by SCNF from the Gare de Lyon. They sell a combination ticket which includes round-trip and connecting bus through town to the chateau plus admission to chateau and grounds. 3) By car as part of a sightseeing tour outside of Paris. There are several places to stay in or near Fontainebleau. On one trip we chose a small hotel in the tiny town of Recloses, in the forest. We stayed 2 nights , giving opportunities to see the Forest and nearby sights like Vaux-le-Vicomte and towns like Melun and Nemours. When you visit the Palace be sure to get a free audioguide (1 1/2 hours duration).

Consider the Chateau de Malmaison

by hquittner

If you are a Napoleon enthusiast, this is an ideal adventure. f not, this is still a fine chateau to visit for it is meticulously furnished with authentic early 19C original pieces as Josephine (and Napoleon) actually placed them. It is readily reached by the RER (ligne A) to Grande Arche-Defense station, There you take Bus 258 to the "Chateau" stop. Do not go by RER to the Ruell-Malmaison stop as there is no bus to the Chateau, but only a 1 km walk.

Ways to Visit Versailles

by hquittner

The most visited site in the Ile-de-France after Paris and the Disney enterprise, is Versailles for its palace. Although commercial tours give easy and rapid access, you should visit the site slowly and in depth. (We have done so many times). You can reach it easily by RER and bring a museum pass to avoid the lines. We know people who have stayed in the town overnight (pop.>100K!) and visited when the crowd level was declining. We have arrived there in early morning by car after arriving at Orly airport, en route to our jet-lag night in Chartres (other towns in the Ile could also be used in this way).

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Q: My husband and I will be visiting South West France in late November to see art and architecture. We are flying in and out of...

A: We love Carcassonne, the restored castle. Just south of it is an abbey at St. Hilaire that is also nice. Carcassonne has a train station but I think you'd need to take a...

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