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VISITING PARIS

THE POMPIDOU CENTRE

Located in the heart of Paris, in the Marais
district, this multi-disciplinary venue
unveils its unique, timeless architecture
and resolutely modern architecture,
offering the visitor the most beautiful view
of the capital. From the upper levels, one
can enjoy a 360° view of the city of light
and its most famous monuments such
as Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the
Sacré-Coeur. Behind its mesh of coloured
pipes, the building of 6 levels offers a
number of spaces dedicated to culture
and art, including the largest museum of
modern and contemporary art in Europe. A romantic walk on the Pont-Neuf, a thrill
With more than 65,000 works, it houses the at the Catacombs or a touch of the exotic
masterpieces of the masters of modern at the Mosque, Paris is also a mixture of
art - Picasso, Kandinsky, Matisse, Chagall, atmospheres and cultures! Unmissable or
Léger, Miro, Dali, Dubuffet, Klein... - and unusual, all these monuments will tell you
major artists of the contemporary scene - the story of a capital that is 2,000 years
Buren, Boltanski, Opalka, Twombly, Hantaï, old...
Tallon, Widmer, Garouste...
THE EIFFEL TOWER
THE MUSÉE GRÉVIN
Inaugurated by Gustave Eiffel during
Created in 1900 by Eugène Hénard for the Universal Exhibition, this great lady
the Paris World Fair, the Grévin is a wax dominates Paris from the top of its 324
museum with no less than 300 wax figures meters height. For more than 120 years, it
ranging from Albert Einstein, Mahatma has overlooked the banks of the Seine river
Gandhi, Michael Jackson or Alfred and the Champ-de-Mars with its metallic
Hitchcock. Many scenes from the history grace. At nightfall, it sparkles with all its
of France, such as the captivity of Louis lights to mark the passage of the hours.
XVI in the Temple or Joan of of Arc at the This masterpiece of mechanical art has
stake. It also features the great events of inspired many artists, poets, painters,
the 20th century with the first man on the writers, film makers.
moon or the fall of the Berlin Wall...
MONUMENTS

Paris is famous all over the world for the
beauty and the number of its monuments.
Towers, churches, palaces, arches, bridges
or fountains... It is an extraordinary
collection of landmarks to go back in time.
Paris would not be Paris without the Eiffel
Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, Notre-Dame
and the Sacré-Coeur. And every evening,
a special magic takes hold of the city
when all these splendid architectures are
illuminated!

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