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Paris Green Side
Paris has over 3,000 hectares of green space, not less than 455 gardens and parks. This is due to the tree as the greenest city in Europe. Wide forest with smaller field with numerous local parks and gardens over time is Geography Green perfectly with the hand through the urban landscape.
Paris Gardens
In Paris, the tradition of the garden lies at the heart of planning for the historic environment and timeline. Important buildings, official (Senate, Palais-Royal), culture (the Louvre) or scientific (Natural History Museum), present their green extension for perfect correlation between the nature and use. Jardin du Palais Royal, Paris 1 Jardin des Plantes, Paris 5e. Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris 6E. Jardin d’Acclimation, Paris 16ème.
Parks
For those who enjoy a large scale plant in the French capital to some beautiful parks, spread over several hectares and punctuation the urban landscape with splashes of most vegetables. The field of sport among its various layouts and facilities. Something for everyone. Parc André-Citroën, Paris 15ème. Parc Monceau, Paris 17ème. Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris 19 Century. Parc de la Villette, Paris 19th Century. Parc de Belleville, Paris 20
The wood of Paris
The Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes are two absolute favorite, the city dwellers to relax. Families will find many activities for children on the playground nestled in the trees. Cyclists are followed by increasingly large distances. The joggers and riders in search of fresh air to maintain an extensive network of hiking and horseback riding. Bois de Vincennes, Paris 12e. Bois de Boulogne, Paris 16.
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Touring Paris
The sixteenth arrondissement is located on the right bank of the Seine in western Paris. This arrondissement hosts the famous chestnut tree-lined Avenue Foch, the widest street in Paris, and many, many messages. If you get the idea that they are receiving one of the richest corners of the city, you are right. Its area is 6.3 square miles (16.3 km ²), but if you (excluding falls in the Bois de Boulogne the size in half to 3 square miles about 7.8 square kilometers). The population is just over hundertsechzigtausend and the district is home to more than one hundred thousand jobs. It is the only district, two zip codes, both deserve to be the exclusive.
Passy is located in the northern district. There was once a village, and Benjamin Franklin served as a home for many years. This is where he in 1782 a pamphlet “A Project for Perpetual Peace” that presented his vision of a lasting peace in Europe published. Who, despite his inability to predict the future, honored a Parisian Franklin Street. You can to visit the Cimetière de Passy (Passy Cemetery) burial grounds for the painter Edouard Manet and the composer Claude Debussy. This is the only cemetery in Paris to have a heated waiting room. This is probably why he was once “the place” in Paris to be buried. If you are sure to see the retaining wall memorial to soldiers who died in World War II Passy, another site of interest is the house where lived the famous writer Honoré de Balzac, and wrote.
The Parc des Princes Park (Princes) is a stadium with only a little less than fifty thousand seats. He is the national stadium of France until the higher levels of France was involved in the way the Saint-Denis. The stadium was in 1972 by the rover Taillibert, who also designed the Montreal Olympic Stadium for the Olympic 1976 Games. The Parc des Princes was a group of space for the name of the royal family during the eighteenth century, but the country is in chaos. There is something to contribute to this site Stadiums) (stadia for purists, the largest party in 1897 and the second in 1932. Until 1967 the Parc marked the end of the race was the Tour de France as the world’s most popular. The plan is implemented, in order to increase the number of seats in a large hundertvierzehntausend.
River Seine
The Seine is probably one of the best known rivers in France, and even made more popular as a tourist attraction in the city of Paris.
From the trunk Parisii when first established fishing villages along the coast, in waters of the Seine, still the heart and soul of Paris, and although the river is not now as a trade route, it is widely used for on a houseboat.
However, the ships can do down the river Seine at Le Havre, Rouen, about 120 km, although river boats which can be up and down the Seine River cruise navigating around 560 km and stretches from Dijon in the Alps. However, because the river flows slowly, makes the product for easy navigation and a very pleasant trip for those on a cruise.
When Paris prospered through the river trade in the Roman period, the channels have been established to link other major rivers such as Loire and Rhine. After the locks have been installed the eighteen hundreds, to make life much easier when the water level fluctuates considerably, especially in the Paris region, which is now very strict now.
If you’re cruising the Seine, one can not help but notice the many bridges span that the river, with some of them several centuries, one in particular, the Pont-Neuf his first stone, who was by King Henry III in 1578th However, the latest addition in 1996 was built to accommodate more traffic, especially for the new football stadium built for the FIFA World Cup.