THE BEST TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN PARIS

There are so many the best tourist attractions that you can visit while in Paris such as the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, Pantheon, and others. Paris is also one of the cities in the world that has a lot of famous buildings and became an icon of the French national capital for many centuries. As we know that Paris is also well known as one of the most romantic and elegant city in the world.

No matter whether you are a traveler who has excess funds or only have limited funds to do the traveling, you are entitled to enjoy the best tourist attractions in Paris. Ranging from iconic monuments and world-class museums, to exciting bistro and luxurious stores, you can still enjoy the beauty and the best tourist attractions in Paris, even for those of you who just want to enjoy a relaxing time and sit in the garden. Therefore, I will share some information about the best tourist places in Paris that can be a list of your destination in Paris.

Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower or La Tour Eiffel is the symbol of Paris. Many traveler states that "someone is said to have been to Paris if they had held the body of the Eiffel Tower". Therefore, approximately six million people climbed to the top of this most famous tower in the world in every year for the sake of enjoying the spectacular scenery, uniqueness and romance of the Eiffel tower.

 

Eiffel Tower

The tower was designed and built by Gustave Eiffel who reviled by critics when was built in 1889. With a height of 312 meters, the tower was once the tallest building in the world before surpassed by the Empire State Building in New York in 1931. Although it looks fragile, weight of Eiffel Tower reached 10,100 metric tons, is very stable and never sways more than 7 cm when exposed to strong winds. And more information about Eiffel you can see The Romance Of Eiffel

Louvre Museum

Louvre Museum or Musee du Louvre is the largest museum in the world. The Louvre Museum has lots of collection of antiques and the best works of art in the world. Even the number of collections of this flagship Museum of Paris reaches 1848 items and also contains about 35,000 other precious objects. And one of the most famous collections in the world is the MONA LISA, the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

Louvre

Louvre building was built by King Philippe-Aguste in 1190, but the king who first inhabited the Louvre was Charles V (1364-1380). Then Francois I make this building a castle with a Renaissance style and start the royal art collection with 12 paintings from Italy in the 16th century. In 1793 Louvre opened to the public by the revolutionaries. And napoleon make this building became a museum. In Louvre And Her Most Beautiful Collections, you can see all collections of Louvre Museum.

Musee d'Orsay

Orsay museum or the Musee d'Orsay is one of the leading art galleries in the world. This museum building is located in the former railway station building. If you are a fan of art and even more about the painting, the d'Orsay museum should not miss because you can enjoy the paintings of some of the world famous artists such as Claude Monet and Van Gogh. And a lot of people come to Paris just to visit the Museum d'Orsay.

Orsay Museum - Musee d'Orsay

Lot of beautiful works of art from 1848-1914 and includes collection of Impressionist works in Orsay Museum. This building of the former train station was built in 1900 and used until 1939. And in 1977 the station was used as the magnificent Musee d'Orsay.

Sacre-Coeur

Sacre-Coeur is the most beautiful Basilica in Paris. Built with charming architecture and coupled with a white dome, the Basilica gives shades a calm and peaceful. You can visit this place in Montmartre. Yard and the terrace in front of the Basilica Sacre-Coeur in Paris offers magnificent views.

Sacre-Coeur

Sacre-Coeur was built to commemorate the 58,000 French soldiers were killed in the France-Prussian war in 1870 to 1871. Basilica construction was completed in 1923 and the pastors prayed for the spirits of victims of war for 24 hours. Although the interior is not as nice as other churches in Paris, but the scenery around Sacre-Coer is very beautiful, especially at Sunset. And in Paris, just a few places that can match the beauty of the scenery at the Sacre-Coeur.

Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame is a magnificent Gothic Cathedral themed located in Paris. This Gothic Cathedral was built on the former site of Gallo-Roman temple and completed in 1345. Besides offering a beautiful view of architecture, Notre-Dame is also a church that represents French art and history, and is the geographical center of this Napoleon’s country.

Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame Cathedral is located on the Ile de la Cite. The workers took about 170 years to build this cathedral after the placement of the first stone by Pope Alexander III in 1163. Notre-Dame designed by Reverend Maurice de Sully and restored by an architect named Viollet-le-Duc in 1841-1864 because the building was nearly destroyed during the revolution. In the cathedral there is also the largest organ in France.

Arc de Triomphe

A little talk about Napoleon, the Arc de Triomphe is a gateway for Napoleon’s victory in the battle. This building stands majestically at the end of the Champs-Elysees. As we know, the Arc de Triomphe is also one of the most famous icon of Paris with the Eiffel Tower.

 

Arc de Triomphe

Arc de Triomphe construction began in 1806 and completed in 1836. This 50 meter tall gate become gate in Napoleon's funeral procession on the way to the cemetery at Les Invalides. For those of you who will be visiting this gateway, you should visit the Arc de Triomphe on December 2, when the sunlight is shining on the Champs-Elysees and the Arch.

Pantheon

At first, the Pantheon was built as a church. But then it turned into cemetery building. Although the cemetery building, Pantheon does not give the impression like a haunted cemetery in general, so this place to be one of the best tourist attractions in Paris. Lot of great and famous French figures buried in the Pantheon as Louis Braille was the inventor of braille letters, Voltaire who is an author, Victor Hugo, and many more.

 

Pantheon

Actually, the Pantheon was built as an expression of joy that Louis XV recovered from gout in 1744 and dedicated to Santa Genevieve. Designed to look like the Pantheon in Rome, but after 1790 the result looks more like St. Paul Cathedral which is in London. At the time of the Revolution, the church became a mausoleum for meritorious figure for Paris. But then Napoleon changed back into the Church in 1806. Pantheon had experienced secularization, then be back into the church building before became a public building in 1855.

Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou is a building with a theme of contemporary art. In this building there are a museum of modern art known as the Musee National d'Art Moderne which you can visit. Moreover, in this building there is a sophisticated research facilities, theaters, bookstores, libraries and performance space.

Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou building was design and built by architect named Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. The opening of this building makes everyone surprised because it was made in reverse by placing colored light pipes on the outside of the building. And the building was designed as cross-cultural art venue that you should visit.

Hotel des Invalides

Basically, Hotel des Invalides is an a military area building used as a residence for the French soldiers which wounded in the late 17th century. And now, this charming place to be one of the best tourist attractions in Paris that you must visit. You can enjoy the atmosphere around the building and historic objects in wartime. You can also see the dome of the Church of Hotel des Invalides which made ​​of gold luster that looks different among the ranks of the roof in Paris.

 

Hotel des Invalides

Louis XIV build this building in 1671 and 1678. At the location of the Hotel des Invalides there is the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte who is the France's greatest warrior of all time. Napoleon's body was buried just under the golden dome of the Church Dome. At this area of Hotel des Invalides you can visit the Musee de I'Armee which is a military museum.

Sainte-Chapelle

For those of you who love the history of the antique and medieval art, Sainte-Chappell could become your first tourist destination. At the time of King Louis IX, this church was built to store relic collected during the Crusades. Sainte-Chapelle is a medieval church which is also called the "Gateway to the Heaven".

Sainte-Chapelle

A Gothic masterpiece built by St. Louis (1214-1270) was completed in 1248. This church has a very beautiful architectural design. With 15 stained glass soar as high as 15 meters toward the concave roof with many stars on it, making the Church become most beautiful church in Paris. Sainte-Chapelle was damaged during the French Revolution and restored in the 19th century. And you can take advantage of religious tourism in one of this best tourist attractions in Paris.

That was some of the best tourist attractions in Paris that could be used as a reference your traveling destination. Besides those places, Paris also offers several other types of tourism you should enjoy such culinary and shopping. And hopefully I can give a little information about the other interesting tourist attractions in the next articles. OK, thus my reviews of the best tourist attractions in Paris. May be useful for those of you who have an interest in traveling. See you in the next. Have A Nice Traveling!