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Eiffel Tower
Come and discover the Eiffel Tower in a unique upward journey in the world, where emotions carry you away. From the forecourt to the summit, you will discover multiple sensations: on all floors, an extraordinary and unique view of Paris, the thrills of the incredible glass floor on the 1st floor, the incredible ascent by the stairs or by the elevators, the unspeakable sensation of amazement caused by the tons of iron hanging over you when you are on the forecourt. The vertigo that grips you when you come out of the elevator at the top, when you see the walkers of the Champs-de-Mars and the traffic of cars along the Trocadero! And whether it is day or evening, whether in summer or in winter, the Eiffel Tower experience is renewed!
Sacré Cœur
The Basilica of Sacré Cœur of Montmartre, located at the top of the Montmartre hill, in the Clignancourt district of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, is a major Parisian religious building, “sanctuary of Eucharistic adoration and Divine Mercy” and property of the Archdiocese of Paris. The construction of this church, a monument both political and cultural, follows the post-war period of 1870. It is declared of public utility by a law voted on July 24, 1873 by the National Assembly of 1871; the building was officially completed in 1923. The desire to build this basilica is part of the context of sacral recharging and its construction took place within the framework of the establishment of a “moral order” following the events of the Paris Commune, of which Montmartre was one of the highlights. Its location at an altitude of 130 m near one of the highest points in Paris, and its dome which rises to 83 meters, make it visible from afar. With nearly eleven million pilgrims and visitors per year, it is the second most visited religious monument in Paris after Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral.
Madeleine Church
The Church of the Madeleine is located on the Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It is a perfect illustration of the neoclassical architectural style with its octostyle portico. Its construction took 85 years due to political unrest in France at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The political changes of the time made it modify several times the destination and the plans. Designed by Napoleon I as a Greek temple dedicated to the glory of his Great Army in 1806, the building was almost transformed in 1837 into a railway station, the first in Paris, before becoming a church in 1845. Under the pediment, the inscription in Latin “D.O.M.” SVB. INVOC. S. M. MAGDALENAE” (“Domino Optimo Maximo sub invocatione Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae”) means “To the most good and great God, under the invocation of Saint Mary Magdalene”. The building is 108 meters long, 43 meters wide, 30 meters high and is surrounded by 52 Corinthian columns.
Notre Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, commonly known as Notre-Dame, is one of the most iconic monuments in Paris and France. It is located on the Ile de la Cité and is a Catholic place of worship, seat of the Archdiocese of Paris, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
The cathedral inspires many artistic works, in particular Victor Hugo’s novel Notre-Dame de Paris published in 1831 and which in turn partly influences its history. At the beginning of the 21st century, Notre-Dame was visited each year by some 13 to 14 million people. The building, also a minor basilica, is thus the most visited monument in Europe and one of the most visited in the world until 2019.
Grand Palais
The Grand Palais is a Parisian monument located on the edge of the Champs-Élysées, opposite the Petit Palais, from which it is separated by the avenue Winston-Churchill, in the 8th arrondissement. Its 77,000 m2 regularly host trade fairs and exhibitions.
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Opera Bastille
The Opéra Bastille is a modern opera hall located on the Place de la Bastille in Paris. It was designed by Carlos Ott and inaugurated in 1989 on the occasion of the bicentenary festivities of the Revolution as part of the major works for Paris. Along with the Opéra Garnier, it is one of the two halls that make up the Opéra de Paris, a French public institution whose mission is to stage the performance of lyrical or ballet performances of high artistic quality. With its 2,745 seats, the great hall of the Opéra Bastille is one of the largest in the world in terms of capacity. In comparison, the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall can accommodate 2,679 people seated and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow can accommodate 1,720. It also corresponds to more than two-thirds of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, which has 3,800 seats.
Champs Elysées
Avenue des Champs-Élysées (often abbreviated Champs-Élysées, sometimes Les Champs) is a thoroughfare in Paris. Almost two kilometers long and following the historic axis of the city, it is a central thoroughfare linking Place de la Concorde to Place Charles-de-Gaulle in the 8th arrondissement. A major tourist site, it is often said to be the most beautiful avenue in the capital and is known in France as the “most beautiful avenue in the world.
Montparnasse Tower
The Montparnasse tower is the tallest skyscraper in intramural Paris, located in the Necker district (15th arrondissement) of Paris. Its height of 209 m (or 210 m depending on the sources) made it the tallest building in France for nearly forty years, until the completion, at La Défense in 2011, of the First Tower. Inaugurated in 1973, it was designed by architects Jean Saubot, Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis de Hoÿm de Marien.
Montmartre
Montmartre is a district of the 18th arrondissement of Paris dominated by the Sacré-Coeur basilica. Since the 19th century, it has hosted many artists such as Picasso or Modigliani and has become the symbol of rural and independent life within the megalopolis itself.
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Opera Garnier
The Opéra Garnier, or Palais Garnier, is a national theater which 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 and of the capital. It is located on Place de l’Opéra, at the northern end of Avenue de l’Opéra and at the crossroads of many roads.
This opera was called “Opéra de Paris” until 1989, when the opening of the Opéra Bastille, also the Opéra de Paris, influenced its name. It is now referred to by the sole name of its architect: “Opéra Garnier” or “Palais Garnier”. The two opera houses are now grouped together within the public establishment of an industrial and commercial nature “Opéra national de Paris”, a French public institution whose mission is to implement the representation of high quality opera or ballet performances. artistic. The Opéra Garnier has been listed as a historical monument since October 16, 1923.
Place Vendôme
Place Vendôme (initially “Place des Conquêtes, renamed “Place Louis-le-Grand from 1699”), is a square in Paris, located in the 1st arrondissement. Along with Place des Victoires, Place de la Concorde, Place des Vosges and Place Dauphine, it is one of the city’s five royal squares. Its architecture is due to the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart who designed, in 1699, a strict urban plan with which the owners of the buildings must comply. A large part of the facades is classified as a historical monument. In its center is the Vendôme column built in 1810, knocked down by the Communards, then rebuilt.
Louvre Museum
The Louvre Museum is a museum located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
A prefiguration of this was imagined in 1775-1776 by the Comte d’Angiviller, Director General of the King’s Buildings, as a place for the presentation of masterpieces from the Crown collection. This museum was only inaugurated in 1793 under the name of Central Museum of the Arts of the Republic in the Louvre Palace, a former royal residence located in the center of Paris, and it is today the largest museum in art and antiques in the world. Its exhibition area is 72,735 m2.
At the end of 2019, the Louvre kept more than 500,000 works, of which more than 36,000 were on display. They present Western art from the Middle Ages to 1848, that of the ancient civilizations that preceded and influenced it (Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman), the arts of the first Christians and of Islam.
In 2018, with approximately 10.2 million annual visitors, the Louvre is the most visited museum in the world. It is the most visited paying cultural site in France. Among his most famous plays are The Mona Lisa, The Venus de Milo, The Crouching Scribe, The Victory of Samothrace and The Code of Hammurabi.
Orsay Museum
The Musée d’Orsay (officially “public establishment of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie – Valéry Giscard d’Estaing” since 2021) is a French national museum inaugurated in 1986.
Located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris along the left bank of the Seine, overlooking the Édouard-Glissant promenade, it is housed in the former Gare d’Orsay, built by Victor Laloux from 1898 to 1900 and converted into a museum. by decision of the President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Its collections present Western art from 1848 to 1914, in all its diversity: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic art, photography, architecture, etc. It is one of the largest museums in Europe for this period.
The museum has the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the world, with nearly 1,100 paintings in total out of more than 3,650 in its possession. The public can see masterpieces of painting and sculpture there, such as Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and l’Olympia by Édouard Manet, a proof of La Petite Danseuse de fourteen ans by Degas, L’Origine du world, A Burial at Ornans, The Painter’s Studio by Courbet, The Card Players by Cézanne or even five paintings from the Series of Rouen Cathedrals by Monet and Bal du moulin de la Galette by Renoir.
Temporary monographic or thematic exhibitions periodically concerning the work of an artist, a current or a question of art history are often set up. An auditorium hosts various events, concerts, cinema, shadow theatre, conferences and symposiums and shows specifically intended for young audiences.
Museum of human
The Musée de l’Homme is a French national museum established since 1937 in the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, whose vocation is to present the human race in its anthropological, historical and cultural diversity. It is a department of the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), under the joint supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy.
Heir to a prestigious history and very popular with the public, the Musée de l’Homme initially presented the human race in its evolutionary, anthropological and ethnographic aspects (with, consequently, cultural, ethnobotanical and ethnozoological aspects). Jacques Chirac, then Head of State, wanted to create a new museum at the Quai Branly, and to this end had the ethnographic collections of the Musée de l’Homme transferred there, which closed for six years of renovation work in 2009. Another part of the collections joins the MuCEM. The work involves 96.6 million euros of investment by the Ministries of Higher Education and Research (95%) and Culture (5%). The reopening to the public took place in 2015 after the opening by Cécile Aufaure, curator of the Museum, Évelyne Heyer, curator of the exhibition and Bruno David, president of the Museum, in the presence of the Head of State on that date: François Hollande.
Tokyo Palace
The Palais de Tokyo (Tokyo Palace) is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arronsissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to the City of Paris, and hosts the Musée d’art moderne de Paris (Paris’ Museum of Modern Art). The western wing belongs to the French state and since 2002, has hosted the Palais de Tokyo / Site de création contemporaine, the largest museum in France dedicated to temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.
The building is separated from the River Seine by the Avenue de New-York, which was formerly named Quai Debilly and later Avenue de Tokio (from 1918 to 1945). The name Palais de Tokyo derives from the name of this street.
Pantheon-Sorbonne
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, also known as Paris 1 or Panthéon-Sorbonne University, is a public research university located in Paris. It was created in 1971 from two faculties of the historic University of Paris– colloquially referred to as the Sorbonne – after the May 1968 protests, which resulted in the division of one of the world’s oldest universities. Most of the economics professors (35 out of 41) of the Faculty of Law and economics of Paris preferred to found the multidisciplinary Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University with professors of the faculty of humanities of Paris and a few professors of law.
Panthéon-Sorbonne has three main domains: Economic and Management Sciences, Human Sciences, and Legal and Political Sciences; comprising several subjects such as: Economics, Law, Philosophy, Geography, Humanities, Cinema, Plastic arts, Art history, Political Sciences, Mathematics, Management, and Social Sciences.
Pantheon-Sorbonne’s headquarters is located on the Place du Panthéon in the Latin Quarter, an area in the 5th and the 6th arrondissements of Paris. The university also occupies part of the historical Sorbonne campus. The current name of the university refers to these two symbolic buildings: the Sorbonne and the Panthéon (Saint-Jacques part).Overall, its campus includes over 25 buildings in Paris, such as the Centre Pierre Mendès France (“Tolbiac”), the Maison des Sciences Économiques, among others.
Invalides Army Museum
The Musée de l’Armée was created in 1905 with the merger of the Musée d’Artillerie and the Musée Historique de l’Armée. The Musée de l’artillerie (Museum of Artillery – “artillerie” meaning all things related to weapons) was founded in 1795 in the aftermath of the French revolution, and expanded under Napoléon. It was moved into the Hôtel des invalides in 1871, immediately following the Franco-Prussian war and the proclamation of the Third republic. Another institution called the Musée historique de l’Armée (Historical Museum of the Army) was created in 1896 following the Paris world fair. The two institutions merged in 1905 within the space of the former Musée de l’Artillerie. Today, it holds 500,000 artifacts, including weapons, armour, artillery, uniforms, emblems and paintings, exhibited in an area of 12,000 m2. The permanent collections are organised into “historical collections”, representing a chronological tour from ancient times through the end of the second World War.
Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum
The Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, is a museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel to feature the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum collection comprises more than a million objects (ethnographic objects, photographs, documents, etc.), of which 3,500 are on display at any given time, in both permanent and temporary thematic exhibits. A selection of objects from the museum is also displayed in the Pavillon des Sessions of the Louvre.
The Quai Branly Museum opened in 2006; it is the newest of the major museums in Paris and received 1.15 million visitors in 2016. It is jointly administered by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and serves as both a museum and as a center for research.
The museum has been the subject of controversy, with some calling for the repatriation of its collections that were acquired through colonial conquest.
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile ( ’Triumphal Arch of the Star’) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Elysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l’Étoile—the étoile or “star” of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues. The location of the arc and the plaza is shared between three arrondissements, 16th (south and west), 17th (north), and 8th (east). The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolution and Napoléonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the unknown soldier from the first World War.
Luxembourg Garden
The Jardin du Luxembourg , known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Creation of the garden began in 1612 when Marie de Madicis, the widow of King Henry IV, constructed the Luxembourg palace as her new residence. The garden today is owned by the French senate, which meets in the Palace. It covers 23 hectares (56.8 acres) and is known for its lawns, tree-lined promenades, tennis courts, flowerbeds, model sailboats on its octagonal Grand Bassin, as well as picturesque Medici Fountain, built in 1620.
The name Luxembourg comes from the Latin Mons Lucotitius, the name of the hill where the garden is located.
Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries in Paris, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris’s ancient stones quarries. Extending south from the Barrière d’Enfer (“Gate of Hell”) former city gate, this ossuary was created as part of the effort to eliminate the city’s overflowing cemeteries. Preparation work began shortly after a 1774 series of basement wall collapses around the Holy Innocents’ Cemetery added a sense of urgency to the cemetery-eliminating measure, and from 1786, nightly processions of covered wagons transferred remains from most of Paris’s cemeteries to a mine shaft opened near the Rue de la Tombe-Issoire.
The ossuary remained largely forgotten until it became a novelty-place for concerts and other private events in the early 19th century; after further renovations and the construction of accesses around Place Denfert-Rochereau, it was opened to public visitation from 1874. Since 2013, the Catacombs have numbered among the fourteen City of Paris Museums managed by Paris Musées. Although the ossuary comprises only a small section of the underground mines of Paris, Parisians currently often refer to the entire tunnel network as the catacombs.
La Grande Arche de la Defense
La Grande Arche de la Défense; “The Great Arch of the Defense”), originally called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and building in the business district of La Défense and in the commune of Puteaux, to the west of Paris. It is usually known as the Arche de la Défense or simply as La Grande Arche. A 110-metre-high (360 ft) cube, La Grande Arche is part of the perspective from the Louvre to Arc de Triomphe, and was one of the Grands Projets of François Mitterrand. The distance from La Grande Arche to Arc de Triomphe is 4 km (2+1⁄2 miles).
Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 19 kilometers (12 mi) west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. About 15,000,000 people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Versailles every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world.
Louis XIII built a simple hunting lodge on the site of the Palace of Versailles in 1623. With his passing came Louis XIV who expanded the château into the beginnings of a palace that went through several changes and phases from 1661 to 1715. It was a favorite residence for both kings, and in 1682, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government to Versailles, making the palace the de facto capital of France. This state of affairs was continued by Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, who primarily made interior alterations to the palace, but in 1789 the royal family and capital of France returned to Paris. For the rest of the French Revolution, the Palace of Versailles was largely abandoned and emptied of its contents, and the population of the surrounding city plummeted.
Napoleon I, following his coronation, used Versailles as a summer residence from 1810 to 1814, but did not restore it. Following the Bourbon Restoration, when the king was returned to the throne, he resided in Paris and it was not until the 1830s that meaningful repairs were made to the palace. A museum of French history was installed within it, replacing the apartments of the southern wing.
The palace and park were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 for its importance as the center of power, art, and science in France during the 17th and 18th centuries. The French Ministry of Culture has placed the palace, its gardens, and some of its subsidiary structures on its list of culturally significant monuments.
Palace of Fontainebleau
Palace of Fontainebleau or Château de Fontainebleau, located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal palaces. The medieval castle and subsequent palace served as a residence for the French monarchs from Louis VII to Napoleon III. Francis I and Napoleon were the monarchs who had the most influence on the palace as it stands today. It became a national museum in 1927 and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 for its unique architecture and historical importance.
Château de Chantilly
The Château de Chantilly is a historic French château located in the town of Chantilly, Oise, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Paris. The site comprises two attached buildings: the Petit Château, built around 1560 for Anne de Montmorency and the Grand Château, which was destroyed during the French Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s. It is owned by the Institut de France, which received it from Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale.
A historic monument since 1988, it is open to the public. The château’s art gallery, the Musée Condé, houses one of France’s finest collections of paintings. It specialises in French paintings and book illuminations of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Disneyland Paris
Disneyland Paris is an entertainment resort in Chessy, 32 km (20 miles) east of Paris. It encompasses two theme parks, resort hotels, Disney Nature Resorts, a shopping, dining and entertainment complex, and a golf course. Disneyland Park is the original theme park of the complex, opening in 1992. A second theme park, Walt Disney Studios Park, opened in 2002. Disneyland Paris celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2022; by then 320 million people had visited, making it the most visited theme park in Europe. It is the second Disney park outside the United States, following the opening of the Tokyo Disney Resort in 1983, and the largest. Disneyland Paris is also the only Disney resort outside of the United States to be completely owned by The Walt Disney Company. It includes 7 hotels: Santa Fe, Hotel Cheyenne, Sequoia Lodge, Newport Bay Club, Hotel New York – the Art of Marvel, The Disneyland Hotel, and Davy Crockett Ranch.
Asterix Park
Parc Astérix is a theme park in France based on the comic book series Asterix by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny. There are approximately 2.3 million visitors to Parc Astérix each year, making it France’s second largest theme park, after Disneyland Paris, which attracts approximately 14 million visitors each year.
It is especially renowned in France for its large variety of roller coasters, which exceeds the amount of most other parks in the Hexagon. Park Astérix has begun incorporating rides and themes from historic cultures like the Gauls, the Romans, Ancient Greece and recently Ancient Egypt, but always in the visual style of the related comic books, and most usually reusing characters, scenes and sounds from the Astérix media.
Jardin d'acclimatation
Opened on 6 October 1860 by Napoléon III and Empress Eugénie, this Paris zoo was originally known as Jardin Zoologique d’Acclimatation, where plants and animals from the colonies could acclimatise to France’s weather conditions. It was directed by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, son of the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, until his death in 1861. During the Siege of Paris (1870–1871), many of the animals in the zoo were cooked and served by chef Alexandre Étienne Choron due to wartime deprivation. From 1877 until 1912, the Jardin Zoologique d’Acclimatation was converted to l’Acclimatation Anthropologique. In mid-colonialism, the curiosity of Parisians was attracted to the customs and lifestyles of foreign peoples. Nubians, Bushmen, Zulus, and many other African peoples were “exhibited” in a human zoo. The exhibitions were a huge success. The number of visitors to the Jardin doubled, reaching the million mark.
In 1931, around 100 other New Caledonian Kanaks, were put on display at the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris, and then sold to another zoo. From 1931 on, the last anthropological exhibition was closed down and since then the zoo – now the Jardin d’Acclimatation – has become a family-oriented leisure park, focusing on children’s activities. Among the attractions are many fair-like activities, including mini-rollercoasters, swing rides, and a collection of farm animals and birds.
Palais de la porte dorée
The Palais de la Porte Dorée ( literally Palace of the Golden Gate) is an exhibit hall located on the edge of the Bois de Vincennes at 293, avenue Daumesnil, 12th arrondissement of Paris. It now houses the Musée de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, as well as a tropical aquarium in its cellar.
The building was constructed for the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931 to designs by French architect Albert Laprade, Léon Jaussely and Léon Bazin. It provides 16,000 m2 of exhibition and office space. External bas-reliefs (1200 m2) by sculptor Alfred Janniot portray ships, oceans, and wildlife including antelopes, elephants, zebras, and snakes. The building’s bas-reliefs and interior frescoes present an idealized version of colonialism that ignores colonialism’s negative impacts. The building is considered a landmark of Art Deco architecture.
The Palais de la Porte Dorée has housed a succession of ethnological museums, starting with the colonial exhibition of 1931, which was renamed in 1935 the Musée de la France d’Outre-mer, then in 1960 the Musée des Arts africains et océaniens, and finally in 1990 the Musée national des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. In 2003 these collections were merged into the Musée du quai Branly, and in its place the building now houses the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration.
The building’s cellar is home to the Dorée Tropical Aquarium (French: Aquarium du palais de la Porte Dorée), which contains about 5,000 animals representing 350 species in a variety of tanks ranging from 100 to 370,000 L (26 to 97,744 US gal) in size.
Bateaux Mouches
Enjoy a unique and unforgettable experience in Paris on the Bateaux Mouches.
A river trip on the Seine which will take you around the main monuments of Paris with breathtaking views.
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Grévin Museum
The Grévin Museum is a private wax museum, inaugurated on June 5, 1882, owned by Grévin & Cie, located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, and in which are grouped reproductions in wax of famous people. Also part of the visit to the museum are the Grévin theater (theatre) and the Palais des Mirages (attraction using the principle of optical illusion). The Salle de la Coupole and the Salle des Colonnes have very beautiful Baroque style decorations dating from 1882.
It has no less than two hundred wax figures ranging from Albert Einstein to Mahatma Gandhi via Michael Jackson or Alfred Hitchcock. Many scenes from the history of France are reconstructed there, such as the captivity of Louis XVI in the Temple or Joan of Arc at the stake.
Regularly, new personalities are removed or enter the Grévin museum.
Pompidou Center
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (English: National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
It houses the Bibliothèque publique d’information (Public Information Library), a vast public library; the Musée National d’Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe; and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. Because of its location, the centre is known locally as Beaubourg. It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
The centre had 3.1 million visitors in 2022, a large increase from 2021 but still below 2019 levels, due to closings caused by the COVID pandemic. It has had over 180 million visitors since 1977 and more than 5,209,678 visitors in 2013, including 3,746,899 for the museum.
The sculpture Horizontal by Alexander Calder, a free-standing mobile that is 7.6 m (25 ft) tall, was placed in front of the Centre Pompidou in 2012.
Claude Monet Foundation
The Claude Monet Foundation is a nonprofit organisation that runs and preserves the house and gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, France, where Monet lived and painted for 43 years. Monet was inspired by his gardens, and spent years transforming them, planting thousands of flowers. He believed that it was important to surround himself with nature and paint outdoors. He created many paintings of his house and gardens, especially of water lilies in the pond, the Japanese bridge, and a weeping willow tree.
With a total of 530,000 visitors in 2010, it is the second most visited tourist site in Normandy after the island of Mont Saint-Michel. The house and gardens have been recognised as among the Maisons des Illustres, and a Jardin Remarquable, rewarding their outstanding qualities. The estate was classified as a monument historique in 1976.
Monet’s paintings of the gardens, especially the sites’ pond with water lilies, are exhibited in dozens of major collections.
