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.
Lycée Janson de Sailly is generally regarded as one of the best high school (high school-around) in France. It is the largest such institution in France, with 3200 pupils aged 11-20. Discovered the founder, a Parisian lawyer named Mr. Janson de Sailly that her husband had a friend who disowned him and left his entire fortune to the state. Chauvinism has insisted that the money is used, which are creating a secondary school for women only received great, but the girl at last. The school was in the 1880s, when built the school first Republican in France but in the end draws many students from the Parisian society.
Janson’s motto is Pour la Patrie, through the book and the sword (for the fatherland, for the book and the sword). Many of his students pursued a military career, often in colonies. 1944 joined hundreds of Free French forces fought German divisions in Alsace, and entered Germany with Patton’s forces in 1945. Janson, students often in the position of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in France, the equivalent of Ivy League schools.
The Musée Guimet (Guimet Museum) boasts one of the largest collections of Asian art outside Asia. It also has a wonderful collection of coins from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. The Museum of forgery (forgery Museum) in 1951 by the Union of Manufacturers, created an organization of producers. It currently has several hundred articles, the coupling of each original piece with its counterfeit. Marmottan Monet Museum is a collection of one hundred Impressionist works by Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
The Trocadero is located on the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. The French won the Battle of Trocadero in 1823 protecting the autocratic Spanish King Ferdinand VII. Forty next year, they honored this victory by renaming the square called Place du Roi de Rome (ie, the Place du Roi de Rome). The following year, the Palais du Trocadero (Palais du Trocadero) on the site that celebrates a declaration on the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War, the palace was built as the culmination of a hall built together in mixed swamp and Byzantine style with huge aquarium that occupies the lower level. For the Exposition Internationale (World’s Fair) of 1937, the old Palais du Trocadéro was demolished and replaced by modern Palais de Chaillot. The complex includes several museums: the National Museum of Marine) (Naval Museum, the Ethnological Museum of Man (Museum of Mankind) and the National Museum of French Monuments (National Museum of French Monuments) and the National Theater of Chaillot (Chaillot National Theater) . The Palais de Chaillot, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The park was renamed the “Square of Human Rights (Esplanade of Human Rights). And since then, human rights …
Of course, would not be Paris without sampling fine French wine and eating. In my article I Love French Wine and Food – A province of Bandol, I analyze such a wine and suggested a trial’s start menu: with eggplant caviar (Egglant) extract. For your second course Poisson aux Herbes de Provence (Fish treated with herbs de provence). And as dessert indulge yourself Tarte aux Noix (Walnut and honey and almonds). Your Parisian sommelier (wine manager) is pleased to recommend suitable wines to accompany each course.