Visiting Paris!
If you plan to visit Paris you should know this…
Everyone knows Eiffel Tower specially if you plan to visit Paris. The less known but also famous shopping avenue Champs Élysées with Arc du Triumph built by Napoleon.
Paris is also full of interesting hidden gems, in this city with 12 million people are living there. Now this city attracts around 42 million visitors from around the world every year.
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The Statue of Liberty in Paris
Paris has a copy of the statue of liberty, that looks exactly like the one in New York city except that it’s much smaller. It’s located in All. des Cygnes, 75015 an artificial island in a walking distance from Eiffel Tower.
This statue was given by American community to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. There are more statues of Liberty in Paris, they are in Musée D’Orsay, Jardin du Luxembourg, Musée des Arts et Métiers.
By the way and speaking about Liberty take a sneak peek to the Flame of Liberty. Below the flame of Liberty is the tunnel where Princess Diana died.
A different way to visit Paris streets
Drive around Paris in unique vehicles, have this super authentic experience and rent a retro car tour. You can also see Paris from a side-car just rent it.
These are some cool ways to see the city. You can easily visit the city on taxi, Metro, bus, electric scooter but her charms are best found on foot.
The iconic Eiffel Tower
See the Gustave Eiffel’s secret apartment in the Eiffel Tower, there is a small secret apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower. This apartment built by Gustave Eiffel to entertain the science elite like his friend Thomas Edison.
Some say it was also to make some Parisians jealous. You can see Eiffel’s cozy apartment if you take a tour to the top of the Eiffel tower. To get there you have 328 steps to the first floor and 1665 to the top if you don’t use the lift.
The Eiffel tower has 2,5 million rivets, it was built in 1889 and since it was erected had a quarter of a billion visitors.
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Feel like shopping or maybe Window shopping? Paris has a lot of shopping’s besides the shops in Champs Élysées.
Visit Galeries Lafayette a 750 square feet department store with impressive dome stretching over four floors. Most of the stores space is dedicated to fashion but you will find plenty of other items too.
The store fronts are special interesting during the Christmas season when they create unique Christmas theme displays. You can also visit Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville located close to the Notre Dame Cathedral to see more shop’s when you visit Paris
The unusual cafes and Bar’s in Paris.
You can visit Bar Lavomatic where you literally enter the washing machine to go to the bar.
Visit unusual bars and cafes, Paris is famous for good food, sweet pastries and interesting and unusual bars.
Other unusual bars in Paris that you might want to visit are Little Red Door Paris, La Recyclerie, Le Comptoir Général, Le Dernier Bar Avant, La Fin du Monde.
Visit unusual bars and cafes, Paris is famous for good food, sweet pastries and interesting and unusual bars. You can visit Bar Lavomatic where you literally enter the washing machine to go to the bar.
Other unusual bars in Paris that you might want to visit are Little Red Door Paris, La Recyclerie, Le Comptoir Général, Le Dernier Bar Avant, La Fin du Monde.
Art and culture in the capital of France.
Go to cool small and unusual museums and galleries. Paris is home to many small museums, art galleries and ateliers that you hardly find anywhere else in the World.
You can visit the Artists Studio at Rue de Rivoli 59 an art collective in a former squat with 30 artist studios and an exhibition space. Don’t forget to visit Le atelier de Lumières is a digital art museum. Located in a former foundry where you can experience art through light using video projectors.
The World’s greatest treasure of Art.
The Louvre is the world’s largest art Museum and quite spectacular inside, you can buy the tickets online so you can skip the line.
This museum has 10 million visitors a year and 5000 years of history under one roof.
It’s too vast to explore with 380 thousand objects there’s no way you are going to see it in one day.
Take you best shot and see the most famous like Leonard DaVinci, Michael Angelo and Egyptian antiquities.
Crowds have been visiting Le Louvre since it opened in 1793. The most popular attraction is the Mona Lisa.
More museums in Paris
Not far from Louvre stands the Centre Pompidou displaying the largest modern art collection in Europe.
If you like perfume visit the Musée du Parfum Fragonard. On the other side, Paris also features a sewer’s Museum witch is currently close for renovation.
There are many other interesting places to visit such as Museum Of Montmartre, Museum of the History of Medicine, Hotel de Cluny and Les Caves du Louvre.
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Try delicious French Pastry, Paris and France are known for its delicious pastry. Have a taste and try the famous macaron at Laduree or other famous pastry shop.
If you want to try a Crepe order one at City Crepe Cafe at 19 Av. de Fontainebleau, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Navigate in the water’s of Sena River
Get on board and go around the canals in Paris, very beautiful at night.
Many people think that canals are only located in Venice or Amsterdam, but they would be surprised because Paris is full of canals too.
You will find many bars, restaurants and other attractions along the canal.
Take some photos to the art walls in Paris
Visit beautiful Parisian streets. Paris is full of amazingly beautiful streets, markets and neighborhoods offering an insight to culture and Parisian art.
Each street offers a completely different experience. Paris is a romantic city so for example visit Au Vieux Paris D’Arcole also known as the Romantic Street.
For an amazing graffiti colection walk from D’Oberkampf to Ménilmontant there are graffiti’s everywhere. You can also see graffiti art in Rue des Rosieres, Rue Lepic, Quai D’Orsay, Rue Cler and Rue Montorgueil.
The Catacombs of Paris
This one will shiver up your spine and take you underground for a bone shilling experience in the Catacombs of Paris beneath the city streets.
It’s a dark experience. As you descend the temperature goes down and you will see 6 millions human remains in the walls.
The remains were put there to save space. At that time there were so many cemeteries in Paris that were somewhat over crowded.
Takes you about one hour to visit the Catacombs of Paris and the circuit has about 1.5 kilometer.
The Market street in Paris
One of the best Market streets in Paris is Rue Cler, it’s 10 minutes away from flame of liberty where you can hunt for a nice wine and cheese.
Pere Lachaise
While in Paris you might be interested to go to Pere Lachaise cemetery and visit the graves of famous people like Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wild and other world greatest minds for whom now Paris is now their forever home.
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Oh! I almost forgot, remember to taste Paris bread, the best Baguette in Paris.
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