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18 de dezembro de 2014

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Musée de l’Orangerie & Jardin des Tuileries

The Jardin des Tuileries is a garden located between the Louvre Museum & the Place de la Concorde. It was created by Catherine de Medicis as the garden of the Tuileries Palace. In the 19th and 20th century, it was the place where Parisians celebrated, met, promenaded & relaxed Our first contact with the Musée du Louvre was actually kinda funny: we were walking in our first day in Paris looking for some place to have a picnic, saw that huge palace & had no idea what it was. We  ...

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Sainte-Chapelle

La Sainte-Chapelle is a royal medieval Gothic chapel, marked by its sense of weightlessness & strong vertical emphasis. The interior is filled by the stained glass windows {including the famous rose window with flamboyant tracery} & every inch of the remaining wall surface is also richly coloured & decorated. After visiting the Panthéon, we started the Gothic tour: the Sainte-Chapelle & Notre-Dame. On the Saint-Chapelle we first entered the lower chapel & we  ...

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La Seine & Pont des Arts

La Seine is an extense river in the north of France & bifurcates the city of Paris into left & right banks {rive gauche & rive droite}. The beauty of the river not only captures our current imaginations: it has mesmerized & seduced since pre-medieval times; it has inspired many artists, as Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Georges-Pierre Seurat & many others. There are 37 bridges within Paris, as the Pont Neuf, Pont des Arts & Pont Alexandre III. Pont des Arts The Pont  ...

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Arc De Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought & died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories & generals inscribed on its inner & outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. We visited the Arc on our  ...

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