Category Archives: Architecture

Guide Tour of Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France

The Hôtel de Ville is the city hall of Paris, France, standing on the Place de l’Hôtel-de-Ville – Esplanade de la Libération in the 4th arrondissement. It has been the headquarters of the municipality of Paris since 1357. It serves multiple functions, housing the local government council, since 1977 the…

Guide Tour of Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France

Architecture and Decoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, France

The construction of the Cathedral began in the middle of the 12th century and was spread over two hundred years. It is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture in France. The cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. Several of its…

Architecture and Decoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, France

Reconstruction progress of Notre-Dame de Paris 2019-2022

The Notre-Dame de Paris spire fell on April 15, 2019, after a fire destroyed the centuries-old landmark. On the night of the fire, Macron said that the cathedral would be rebuilt, and launched an international fundraising campaign. The goal, according to French president Emmanuel Macron, is to have the church…

Reconstruction progress of Notre-Dame de Paris 2019-2022

Haussmann’s renovation of Paris

Haussmann’s renovation of Paris was a vast public works program commissioned by Emperor Napoléon III and directed by his prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870. It included the demolition of medieval neighborhoods that were deemed overcrowded and unhealthy by officials at the time; the building of…

Haussmann’s renovation of Paris

Guide Tour of Printemps Haussmann, Paris, France

Printemps Haussmann is a department store owned by the Printemps Group located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and where the main fashion, beauty and home decoration brands are distributed. They are distributed by theme in the store’s three buildings (27 levels and 45,500 m² in total). The facades and…

Guide Tour of Printemps Haussmann, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Panthéon, Paris, France

The Panthéon is a monument in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, atop the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the centre of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after it. It was conceived by Louis XV as a grand neo-classical church honouring St. Geneviève, the…

Guide Tour of Panthéon, Paris, France

Train Stations in Paris, France

France has one of the most developed railway systems in the world. The railway system is convenient, safe and economical. Paris has a significant number of railway stations, stemming both from the history of the development of French railways and from the needs to serve the city finely. These large-scale…

Train Stations in Paris, France

Guide Tour of Paris La Défense, Ile-de-France, France

La Défense is a major business district located three kilometres west of the city limits of Paris. La Défense bringing together the skills of development, management, animation and promotion of the territory. The Paris La Défense teams are working on the development and modernization of the district, by setting up…

Guide Tour of Paris La Défense, Ile-de-France, France

Guide Tour of Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

The National School of Fine Arts of Paris is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. Beaux-Arts de Paris, descendant of the Royal Academies of Painting and Sculpture, is both a…

Guide Tour of Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

Guide Tour of Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

The Musée d’Orsay is a museum in Paris, multidisciplinary museum exhibiting the richest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings in the world in the former Gare d’Orsay in Paris. Its collections present Western art from 1848 to 1914, in all its diversity: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic art, photography, architecture,…

Guide Tour of Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

Guide Tour of Les Invalides, Paris, France

Les Invalides (formally the Hôtel national des Invalides) is a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans. This immense architectural complex, designed by…

Guide Tour of Les Invalides, Paris, France

Guide Tour of the Hôtel de la Marine, Paris, France

The hôtel de la Marine is an historic building located on place de la Concorde in Paris, to the east of rue Royale. The Hôtel de la Marine is an iconic monument on Place de la Concorde and a fine architectural ensemble that Ange-Jacques Gabriel, the king’s chief architect, made…

Guide Tour of the Hôtel de la Marine, Paris, France

Guide Tour of the Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris, France

The Musée Jacquemart-André is a private museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André (1833–1894) and Nélie Jacquemart (1841–1912) to display the art they collected during their lives. Owned by the Institut de France, it…

Guide Tour of the Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris, France

Architecture of the Garnier Palace, National Opera of Paris, France

The Opéra Garnier, most well known as the National Opera of Paris, is a theatrical and architectural work of art. The Opéra aims to be an academy of music, choreography and lyric poetry; it is a major element of the heritage of the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It was built…

Architecture of the Garnier Palace, National Opera of Paris, France

Guide Tour of Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Paris, France

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, located at the top of the Montmartre hill, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris, France, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Sacré-Cœur Basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the…

Guide Tour of Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Paris, France

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