Have you been to the Moulin Rouge?

When you arrive in Paris and want to enjoy some relaxation, you will want to stop at Moulin Rouge. The nightclub is where everyone goes to dance and enjoy the atmosphere. The home of the Cancan, Moulin Rouge is a spectacular place to see dinner shows or shows without a dinner. The enjoyment of a holiday in Paris starts as soon as you step off the plane. You will have plenty of time for sightseeing after a day of rest from a long flight. If you want to sit and enjoy some quite, you will enjoy the Jardin du Luxembourg Park. It is a park with so many statues and the Medici fountain.

Two places you want to make sure you have time to see are Montparnasse Tower and Montmartre Hill. The hill sits high above the city and you can see for miles. You can visit Sacre-Coeur church and read about the history of the church, which is fascinating. Standing at the top of the stairs and looking down on Paris is amazing. The view of the Eiffel Tower is incredible from this viewpoint. The tower offers another incredible view of Paris. You can take the lift to the fifty-sixth floor and glaze at the area below. There is a terrace on the rooftop for those who want more views of the city of Paris.

How did Paris look in 1739

A detail from one of the 21 plates in Michel Turgot's large-format atlas Plan de Paris (Paris, 1739), Louis Bretez, cartographer. Notre Dame cathedral appears at upper left. The Seine is alive with boats. An axonometric view, this is fine draftsmanship for a man without a helicopter. "It is one of the great city views and shows the primacy of French cartography in the period," says Tom Conley, professor of Romance languages and literatures. Conley teaches that the advent of widely available maps — which rapidly became the basis of statehood, of the management of property, of taxation — revolutionized the way people formed mental images of space.

How much do you know about the Eiffel Tower?

I guess the Eiffel Tower is the most recognized landmark in Paris. I thought you might enjoy seeing this webcam view of the Eiffel Tower from morning to night. It's from YouTube of course.
How much do you really know about the Eiffel Tower?
"...the tower was the greatest affront not only to the architecture of Paris, but also to the eye of the Parisian, for whom its structural logic and revolutionary aesthetic language were incomprehensible.

"Essentially, the structure of the Eiffel Tower—which was a far-ranging extrapolation of Eiffel's spidery, wrought-iron bridge pylons—could not have been more simple: four immense, tapering, curved, lattice-girder piers that meet asymptotically. These piers rise from an immensely broad square base—125 meters on a side—and are laced together at two levels by connecting girders to form an integral unity of great stability..."

— Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p485.

Details

Built for the 1889 International Exhibition, Paris, the centenary celebration of the French Revolution. On the Av. Gustave Eiffel, by the river Seine.

300 m (985 ft) tall.
source: www.greatbuildings.com

Welcome to Paris: City of Light!

Ah Paris! The City of Light! Paris has always been one of my favorite cities...ever since I went there in my early 20's I've thought of it as the most romantic city in the world. I've tried to get back at least once a decade since then and even though something has always changed, the most wonderful aspects of it remain. From the Eiffel Tower to Versailles, from the Champs Elysees to the Louvre and Tuillerie Gardens, Paris is simply a fabulous city, full of history, full of modern marvels like the addition to the Louvre! This blog is intended to enlighten you about Paris and also offer some insight into the luxurious side of Paris. Even if you can't go in style this year, it's fun to dream! Oui, oui!