Paris travel guide

May 31, 2009
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 Visit the Eiffel Tower , the symbol of Paris—at 317m (1,040 ft.). It can be seen over the
rooftops for miles, though of course it’s also fun to pay to go up its lacy iron framework,
at least to the second landing, for a panoramic view. The same is true of the
Arc de Triomphe, that grand Napoleonic boast in sculpture-laden stone at the western
end of the Champs-Elysées, plopped in the middle of an impossibly frenetic
traffic hub. (If you want to go inside, cross via the underground passage.) The Gothic
cathedral of Notre Dame is best appreciated from outdoors, across the
Seine, where you can admire its flying buttresses and sprouting gargoyles. Or you
can simply roam Paris’s great formal gardens,full of flowers and statuary and
strolling Parisians of all ages—the Jardin des Tuileries on the Right Bank by the
Louvre , and the Jardin du Luxembourg on the Left Bank, where you’ll also
find the city’s best playground.

And then there are atmospheric neighborhoods to ramble around. On the Right Bank, the narrow streets of Le Marais
feature trendy bistros and boutiques amidst 17th-century aristocratic mansions,and Montmartre, the turn-of-thecentury
artists’ quarter (think La Boheme), offers hilltop vistas from the Byzantine-style white basilica of Sacré-Coeur, place St-Pierre.

If you want to visit Paris night ,you can visit such storied bohemian neighborhoods as the Latin Quarter, so named by Rabelais because students and professors from the nearby Sorbonne conversed in Latin on the streets; Montparnasse, where expatriate artists like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and James Joyce enjoyed a cafe lifestyle; and St-Germain-des-Prés, the postwar haunt of Sartre and Camus.

Kids are also fascinated by the French Revolution, so we had to visit place de la Bastille (the ancient prison stormed by the mob on July 14, 1789, is gone, but they like the column topped by a winged God of Liberty in the square); the Conciergerie prison, 1 quai de l’Horloge
where Marie Antoinette awaited her trial and beheading; and, at the eastern end of the Champs-Elysées, place de la Concorde,
formerly known as Place de la Révolution, where the guillotine sliced off heads daily in front of bloodthirsty
crowds. Your tastes may be different—but in Paris, there’s something for everyone.

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