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Paris Monuments and Museums :
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Champs Elysees
The triumphal avenue aiming toward the Arc de Triomphe.
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Arc de Triomphe.
This arch was built in memory of Napoléon's Great Army at the top of the Champs-Elysées.
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La Defense.
The 21 st century skyscrapers business district erected outside the western city-limits of Paris was recently enriched by the spectacular Grande Arche.
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Latin Quarter - Saint Germain des Pres.
The intellectual and new fashion district.
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Notre Dame.
The major french religious building, masterpiece of gothic architecture.
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Le Louvre.
Louvre Museum, antiquity to 18th century, 1st museum world wide.
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Saint Sulpice Church.
The Church of Saint Sulpice, the famous location of the Da Vinci Code.
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Orsay Museum.
Orsay Museum, 19th century arts
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Beaubourg, Centre Georges Pompidou.
Not far from Les Halles, the Centre Beaubourg or better known as the Pompidou Center,created alot of mixed feelings with its radical architectural design.
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Bastille Quarter & Bastille Opera.
Landmark of the French Revolution better known today as a hip district hosting the new opéra.
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Eiffel Tower.
The Paris' landmark : in 1889 Gustave Eiffel gave the French flag a 300 m (984 ft.) pole to commemorate the revolution centenary.
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La Concorde.
This vast and elegant symbol of reconciliation after the revolution displays the 3000 years old Luxor's obelisk.
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Place des Vosges/Le Marais.
A famous early 17th century square with some of the most beautiful parisian apartments in the middle of a middle-age district.
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La Madeleine.
Neo-Greek temple ordered by Napoleon in homage to its Great Army, today a rich catholic parish.
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Opera.
Two operas : the original one built by Garnier in 1875 & Opera Bastille from 1989.
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Montmartre/Sacre Coeur
Basilica built to the glory of the "Holy Heart of Jesus" to redeem the Nation's sins after the 1870 bloodshed of the Commune of Paris overlooks Paris from the Montmartre hill.
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Montparnasse
The famous district in the left bank, location of the only parisian skyscaper and the train station.
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Disneyland Paris
The first leisure/theme park of Europe.
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Versailles.
The Sun-king palace in Versailles is half an hour by train from Paris.
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