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8 Places To See in Paris

Places To See in Paris

Looking for the best places to see in France? Here we have listed the most exclusive and the top listed from the list. Check for below and check how you like it.

1. Louvre Museum

Louvre Museum

We are starting with one of the must-visit collections, the romantic Paris gracefully presents its visitors. Louvre Museum, where the heart and the art of the nation are perfectly blended with each and preserved and presented in the finest way.

Louvre Museum is not just the best in France but has earned timeless recognition and admiration for the incredible masterpieces showcase in the museum, which makes Louvre Museum one of the largest and the most outstanding museums in the world.

The museum is located allowing the visitors to enjoy the scenic views produced by the great Seine River. Louvre Museum is a museum which has been made by converting a baroque-style palace.

The building is formerly recognized as a fortress built in 1190 and later developed as a palace in the 16th century. And so as the museum is also sharing a fascinating history beneath the walls.

2. Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

The iconic tower is admired and loved all across the world as the center to celebrate romance, which has made Eiffel Tower a dream lay on most travelers’ bucket lists. Eiffel Tower is undoubtfully, a paradise for lovers. Beholding the magnificent tower and sipping a fine wine or tasting the warmth of a freshly made coffee cup has become a universal dream.

Offering a wide range of cozy hotels, mouth-watering restaurants that cook the best local and international dishes, hot coffee shops, tempting bars, and unforgettable experiences served around the Eiffel Tower has made Paris one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world.

Eiffel Tower is where desire, discord, art, history, and perception meet. It keeps continuing to impress the world with its sophistication by allowing it to celebrate vanity and entity at the same time.

3. Arc de Triomphe

Arc de Triomphe

Another prestige experience that Paris is ready to offer you. Arc de Triomphe is an inspiring highlight to discover during the stay of your most awaited holiday. it’s also known worldwide as one of the best commemorative monuments in the world.

Arc de Triomphe stands as the identity of a great civilization. The basement of Arc de Triomphe is founded in the year 1806 and from henceforth there are several innovations, renovations, restoring and reimbursements that have taken place it has taken more than 30 years to construct the monument.

For its beauty, historical and cultural significance, aesthetic values, and many more Arc de Triomphe has become a monument of immortality by standing in its majesty and connecting the history and the modernity of the country.

4. Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris also known as Our Lady of Paris is also another graceful representation of art, architecture, and perception of the Parisian history that makes the place one of the top listed places to visit in Paris.

The symbolic construction date back around the year 1154, and Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is still celebrating the antiquity and craftmanship of this beautiful edifice. It has taken more than 2 centuries to complete the religious structure adorned with Gothic interior features.

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is located right at the city center, offering convenient access for the travelers to reach it in less duration of time.

5. Musée d’Orsay

Musée d'Orsay

Musée d’Orsay is another worth visiting world-famous museum that is located based in Paris. The museum is also located on the left side of the banks of the river Seine.

One of the most fascinating facts about Musée d’Orsay is, it has built in the former railway complex of Gare d’Orsay, which is known as a Beaux-Arts railway station built-in during the period of 1898 and 1900.

The Museum of Musée d’Orsay has earned a timeless value and popularity for its showcase of valuable art pieces belonging to the French art period dating between the years of 1848 to 1914. The collection is inclusive of arts, sculptures, furniture, and photography.

Surely you would love to explore the masterpieces designed by the famous artists of Berthe Morisot, Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh.

6. Luxembourg Gardens

Luxembourg Gardens

What makes Paris a recognized romantic space is the world is not just for its ultimate presentation of art, craft, history, culture, literature, universities, sophisticated modernity, and so on. Paris has also a great venue to refresh your thoughts and vibe while celebrating romanticism.

The next from the list is the lovable Luxembourg Gardens, which is mind soothing space located right in Paris. Apart from its beauty, the Luxembourg Gardens is sharing some historic values forming the garden in the year 1612, and it was designed by Marie de’ Medici. The garden is belonging to the Palace of Luxembourg, and at the moment the palace belongs to French Senat.

The palace and the garden complex were created by Marie de’ Medici for resembling the childhood memories she had in Florence back then. So as architecture and interior features are almost influenced by Italy designing’s.

7. Sainte-Chapelle

Sainte-Chapelle

Sainte-Chapelle is such a mind-blowing attraction that is based in Paris, and tourists would not skip visiting. Located at the heart of Paris known as  Ile de la Cité, Sainte-Chapelle is revered all across the world for preserving and presenting the relics related to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which makes this beautiful place Christian artifacts.

At Sainte-Chapelle you can witness the holly Crown of Thornes and also a piece of the True Cross. The enchanting is easily accessible from any part of Paris.

8. Tuileries Garden

Tuileries Garden

Here we are escorting you again to another famous garden based in Paris. The garden shares a great amount of historic and cultural values besides the spontaneous tranquility the garden produces.

Tuileries Garden has relandscaped by the famous gardener of King Louis XIV, André Le Nôtre in the year 1664, from where the authenticity of traditional French gardens is implied.

The garden belonged to an old tile factory in which Queen Catherine de Medici built the Palais des Tuileries in the year of1564. Tuileries Garden has been identified as a perfect spot to relax in Paris or to enjoy a stroll.

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