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City of light and dreams, Paris, like most large cities, is a collection of villages or small towns that have their history, their perfumes, their charm and their way of life. Difficulty in walking at Les Halles, to imagine the atmosphere of the rue Mouffetard, one of the rue Lepic, or the Butte-aux-Cailles. Stroll avenues in streets, walking the banks of the Seine without predefined program, and enjoy the majesty of the capital.

Thousands of views and monuments
At the center of the Paris Basin, between the confluence of the Marne, the Oise and the Seine, the city is located on a bend of the river and has two islands (the City to the west and St. Louis to the east ) derives its historic heart. Thirty bridges allow the passage from one bank to another as the magnificent Alexandre III bridge or Pont de l’Alma. But two other rivers through the capital: the Bièvre completely underground and the Canal Saint-Martin 4.5 km long.

The quays of the Seine, the Pont de Sully bridge of Bir Hakeim, is one of the most beautiful urban river and are also listed on the inventory of the world heritage of Unesco. These include, from east to west: the Louvre, the Invalides, the Pont Alexandre-III, the Grand Palais, the Musée du quai Branly, the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadero. The Gothic art has its place in the city, on the Ile de la Cite, the cathedral dear to Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, or the Sainte Chapelle. The classical period brought some treasures like the church of the Sorbonne, the Louvre museum or the Invalides. It was in the nineteenth century and the holding of the exhibition of 1900 that many monuments were built in the capital, the Arc de Triomphe, the covered passageways, the opera Garnier and the famous Iron Lady or the Tour Eiffel .
Other buildings are scattered in different neighborhoods in a more contemporary style as the French National Library, Art Center George Pompidou and the Tour Montparnasse.

The districts of Paris
They are no less than 80 districts that make up the city of Paris, which include among others, the Bastille and its famous column, the Champs-Elysees or the most beautiful avenue in the world, the Latin Quarter and its famous restaurants, without forget the old swamp became Forum des Halles, or neighborhood growing around the Palais Omnisports de Bercy and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The heart of the city
If the two major timber (Boulogne and Vincennes) to delineate the city a natural border with the periphery, small hills inland, as the Buttes Chaumont, Montmartre, Belleville and the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, vegetation and provide relief to the city.
This need for freshness and greenery led mayors to install parks and gardens in number. The historic garden of the Tuileries, that of plants, first public park, and the Luxembourg are facing competition from newer places like the Park Monceau and the Parc de la Villette.
The cemeteries are all places of the many cultural references. If the father Lachaise is the most visited neighborhoods of Montparnasse, Montmartre or Passy house necropolises equally spectacular and rewarding.

Well knows city historical
The celebrity of the city of the tenth century when it was a crossroads of trade routes and river land in the heart of a rich agricultural region. Castles, abbeys and mansions appeared at that time.
But his position did that grow from the capital of education and the arts in the twelfth century, then the city of the Christian world in the fourteenth century or first European political power and capital of arts and pleasures in the nineteenth century.
Today it appears as one of the world capitals of luxury and fashion, but also a focal point for international transport an attractive and economically.

A rich culturally city
Saint-Germain-des-Prés, like the Place du Tertre, was a longtime area artists, with Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre at Café de Flore.
Cultural places are diverse and spread across the capital with many museums (Orsay, Carnavalet, … Pantheon), places of entertainment world famous (Olympia, Bobino, the Comédie Française …) or innovative festivals (Nuit Blanche , Paris Plages, the Salon de l’agriculture …)