The Eiffel Tower
This construction with a height of 350m, was erected in 1889 by Gustave Eiffel on the occasion of the World Fair, where she was the major showpiece. It is situated on the riverbank of the Seine in Paris.
Notre Dame Cathedral
This impressing monument dominates all the religious architecture of the Ile-de-France. The construction work began in 1163 and was finished in 1345.
The exhaltation of the romantic Victor Hugo, through his novel "Notre Dame de Paris", allowed the whole world to discover the cathedral.
What generally strikes the majority of the visitors is the facade, which consists of majestic doors and the stained glass in the form of rosettes, but also the strange statues of the gargoyles amongst the saints, which seem to be able to away any time.
To describe the facades and the body of the monument would be too extensive to mention here. You should go to the Ile de la Cité and contemplate one of the most beautiful cathedrals of France.
Montmartre
When we think of Montmartre, we immediately think of the numerous artists attracted by the pitoresque site, which are omnipresent since the end of the 19th century.
From an ethymological point of view, Montmartre indicates the "mountain of the martyrs". Before the costruction of the basilica of the Sacré Coeur, in a Byzantine-Romanesque style, the hill was a small village situated on the outside of the townwall which protected Paris.
The basilica is the metaphor of the condemnation of the sins of the inhabitants of Paris: these sins would have caused the defeat of the French army in front of the Prussians in 1870.
The Arch of Triumph
This edifice is situated on the Place de l'Etoile, in the form of vault. Napoleon himself instructed the construction of this structure, because he wished to have a monument to commemorate the glory of the French army. The names of his victories can still be read, engraved in the stone of the monument.
The Arc de Triomphe also contains the grave of the unknown soldier, the symbol of thousands of soldiers killed on the front during the First World War. Since 1923, every November 11th, the Flame of the Memory on the grave of the unknown soldier is symbolically relit by war veterans and soldiers.