PARIS - TOP SIGHTS
| 01 Eiffel Tower & Trocadero
Paris' most iconic landmark, it is an attraction that all first time visitors find themselves drawn too. The tower has three viewing platfoms for terrific views! Close by is the Trocadero popular with tourists for its spectacular unobstructed views of the Eiffel Tower.
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| 02 Arc de Triomphe & Champs-Elysées The Arc de Triomphe is another Paris landmark - commissioned by Napoleon to celebrate his victories in battle. Champs-Élysées is considered the greatest boulevard in Paris!
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| 03 Notre Dame de Paris Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the most famous buildings in France, and possibly the most famous cathedral in the world, having been immortalised by Victor Hugo's novel 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame.'
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| 04 Sacré-Coeur basilica The five onion-domed white Romanesque-Byzantine Basilica of the Sacred Heart stands upon the Montmartre Hill, the highest point in the city. From the church's steps are great views of the city
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| 05 Centre George Pompidou One of the most recognisable buildings in Paris, has been called the 'inside-out building'.
The building's functional parts - pipes, ducts, escalators, steel supporting frame, which would normally remain hidden from view, run along the outside of the building highlighted in bright primary colours.
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| 06 Place De la Concorde The largest square in Paris and has an infamous bloody history. A guillotine once stood here where King Louis XVI lost his head, as did his Queen, Marie Antoinette. In 1836 King Louis-Philippe erected a 3200 years old Egyptian obelisk where the guillotine had formally stood in honour of those killed.
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| 07 Panthéon It was in the Pantheon in 1851 that Léon Foucault performed his famous experiment that proved the Earth rotates on its orbit. The crypt is where many of France's national heroes are buried, including Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Marie Curie, Jean Moulin and many more
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08 Hotel Des Invalides
(Napoleon's Tomb) Hotel des Invalides was built between 1670 - 1676 by King Louis XIV as a residence for sick and injured soldiers.
Today, the complex of buildings contain monuments, museums and mausoleums relating to French military history, including the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose remains where interned here in 1861.
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| 09 Saint-Sulpice Church Saint-Sulpice is the second largest Church in Paris. Building of the church started in 1646. Its neo-classical facade, modelled on St Paul's cathedral in London, was added in 1732. The church is also famed because of Dan Brown's novel "The Da-Vinci Code". The novel claims that the brass line inlaid on the floor of the church is a 'Rose Line,' that was part of an ancient Pagan temple dedicated to the goddess Isis, which today has connections with a secret occult society,
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| 10 Sainte-Chapelle Recognised as one of the great masterpieces of the 'Rayonnante' (radiant) style of French Gothic architecture. The chapel's dazzling display of colours is reflected through the 50ft high stained glass windows.
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