Presentation on the topic I want to go to Paris. Paris city, capital of France; the administrative center of the Île de France region. Paris is the city of my dreams… - presentation. Arc de Triomphe on Carousel Square
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The Eiffel Tower is the most recognizable architectural landmark of Paris, world famous as a symbol of France, named after its designer Gustave Eiffel and is a place of pilgrimage for tourists. The designer himself called it simply - a 300-meter tower.
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The Pantheon is a building located in the Latin Quarter, which was originally built as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, but after numerous changes it became the burial place of famous people. It is one of the first neoclassical buildings with a façade modeled on that of the Pantheon in Rome, crowned with a small dome.
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Currently, the Sorbonne is called the historic University of Paris, which is located in the central region of Ile-de-France and is perhaps the most famous university in continental Europe. Today, the Sorbonne is a powerful institution, consisting of 13 universities located throughout Paris, with their own specialization and their faculties, and at the same time the authority of the Sorbonne as a whole.
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The Louvre in Paris is the most famous museum in the capital of France, the most popular museum in the world, and at the same time the third largest. The Louvre is located on the right bank of the Seine River in the 1st municipal district of Paris, where in the building of the Louvre Palace on an area of 60.6 thousand square meters. exhibited about 35 thousand items created in the period from the 6th millennium BC. e. until the 19th century A.D. e.
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Aqua Boulevard is located in the southwest of Paris and covers an area of 7,000 square meters. The construction of the water park began in 1986. It was planned to invest 280 million francs, however, in fact, the construction took 450 million. Three years later, the complex was built, which became the largest water park in Europe.
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Disneyland Paris is a grand complex of amusement parks. Disneyland has two theme parks. The first is the classic Disneyland Park. The second - Walt Disney Studios Park - the "kitchen" of the film industry.
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Catacombs of Paris - the famous Parisian underground ossuaries, burial places of skeletons. Organized in the renovated part of the city's extensive network of underground tunnels and artificial caves at the end of the 18th century, they have become an attractive place for tourists. The official name of the catacombs is "Municipal Ossuaries". 45-minute excursions are organized here, and you should take care of warm clothes - the temperature in the catacombs is 14 degrees above zero.
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The Champ de Mars is a famous park in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, wedged between the Eiffel Tower from the northwest and the Military School from the southwest. It is located in the western part of the city on the left bank of the Seine. This park got its name in honor of the ancient Roman Field of Mars.
The Notre Dame Cathedral was built on the Ile de la Cité on the initiative of the Parisian bishop Maurice de Sully. Its construction began in the XII century. and lasted 170 years. The interior of the cathedral amazes with the scope of spaces. The Cathedral is the Heavenly Jerusalem on earth and at the same time a model of the divine universe...
One of the most famous symbols of Paris. It was built with the money of pious French Catholics after a series of national failures. When laying the first stone (June 16, 1875), a bronze medallion “France Presents the Basilica of Montmartre to Christ”, a box with French medals, and a parchment with the minutes of the founding ceremony of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica were placed in the ground of the hill. From the foot of the dome, where 237 steps of stairs lead (on the left side of the cathedral), an amazing panorama of Paris opens up.
At the beginning of the 19th century, on the right bank of the Seine, the Stock Exchange building was built - another example of the lush and cold Napoleonic Empire style, imitating ancient architecture in everything. The stock exchange is a place for trading in shares, bonds of external and internal loans, as well as gold and currency
Place Vendôme was built up at the end of the reign of Louis XIV on the site of the possessions of the Duke of Vendôme. The project was developed by the famous architect Jean Hardouin-Mansart and provided for the classic scheme of the “royal” square: elegant mansions forming a closed rectangle, and an equestrian statue of the monarch in the center.
The name of the avenue is borrowed from Greek mythology. The Champs Elysees, or Elysium, are the “Islands of the Blessed”, where heroes live who have received immortality from the gods. In 1616, at the direction of Marie de Medici, three avenues with elms were laid on the square, and in 1667, under the direction of the landscape architect Le Nôtre, a walking area was arranged. The Champs Elysees is a traditional site for military parades held here on July 14 (Bastille Day) and November 11 (the end of the First World War).
The Elysee Palace is the Parisian residence of the head of the French Republic. The President's personal office is located in the Golden Salon. The chef at the Champs Elysees maintains a menu card file to avoid repeating dishes for visitors who dine here not for the first time. According to the protocol, lunch should not last more than one hour and five minutes.
Once upon a time, French President Georges Pompidou dreamed: “I want a cultural center to be built in Paris - both a museum and a creative workshop, where the plastic arts would coexist with music, cinema, books and audiovisual studies ...” In 1969, it was announced international competition for the design of the largest cultural center in Europe. The Georges Pompidou National Center for the Arts was inaugurated on January 31, 1977. On the cobbled square in front of the center, as if in medieval times, street actors, musicians and acrobats perform.
Island of the City - "the beginning of all beginnings", the cradle of the French capital. During the Carolingian era, the city was attacked by the Normans six times, and each time the inhabitants took refuge on the island, where they erected fortress walls. In 1607, the Pont Neuf was thrown across the Seine, and later four more bridges were built. In April 1962, the Memorial to those killed in the Nazi camps was opened on the eastern tip of the island.
A giant ball whose mirrored surface reflects the Parisian sky and the surrounding landscape. This is a panoramic cinema "Geode" with a huge screen area of 1000 square meters. Today, this building is considered the most perfect spherical structure in the world. When filming and showing films, the latest Omnimax technology (based on the fisheye principle) is used. During the demonstration of the film, the 70 mm wide film does not move in the vertical direction, but in the horizontal direction. The image on the screen is ten times larger than in a conventional cinema. Many shots were taken from a helicopter and create the effect of presence, sometimes reaching dizziness.
On both sides of the obelisk, Gittorf installed two fountains 9 meters high, imitating the fountains of St. Peter in Rome. The fountains are decorated with statues of Triton, Nereid and other mythical characters, as well as eighteen rostral columns. In the evenings, the fountains are illuminated. Recently completed work on the capital restoration of fountains.
March 31, 1889: grand opening of the tower; delivery of the Order of the Legion of Honor to engineer Gustave Eiffel At the same time, people can be on the tower. In addition to serving tourists, the tower is used for radio and television broadcasting, as well as a meteorological service station.
Built in the years On the walls of the arch are engraved the names of 128 battles won by the republican and imperial armies, as well as the names of 658 French commanders. The arch is surrounded by one hundred granite pedestals (in honor of the "hundred days" of Napoleon's reign), interconnected by cast-iron chains. The inscription on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier: "Here lies a French soldier who gave his life for the Motherland."
The idea of such placement of animals, when their freedom is imitated, belongs to the German Karl Hagenbeck, who created the zoo in Hamburg in 1907. The success of the exhibition's zoological park led to the idea of creating a larger park with stylized enclosures that mimic wildlife - the natural habitat of each animal. Currently, the zoo contains about 1200 animals. The territory of the zoo is 14.5 hectares.
When, in June 1955, the news about the world's first Disneyland appeared, few could have predicted that in the near future its name would become a household name, associated by people all over the world with a happy childhood and the fulfillment of cherished desires. This is where amazing adventures begin and miracles happen. Here everyone finds something exciting for themselves. The attractions and scenarios of Disneyland are unique, its concept is different from any other entertainment venue in the world.
Asterix is the most Gallic of all the amusement parks, built thanks to the amazing popularity of characters from famous French comics and cartoons about the Romans and the ancestors of the French - the Gauls. The unique world of fairy tale characters opened its doors in May 1989. Equipped with the latest technology, today it is the second largest amusement park in France.
The Louvre in Paris, France, is one of the most famous and most visited art museums in the world. The Louvre collection contains almost exhibits
In 1981, the movement of high-speed trains was opened in France, the first in this respect among European countries. Trains of the TGV family began to run on a new high-speed line specially built for passenger transportation (currently such lines are designated as LGV) Paris Lyon (Fig. 2) at first with a maximum speed of 260 km/h, later it was increased to 270 km/h.
Paris has always been known to the world as a fashion capital that attracts for elegant and beautiful clothes, unique and original, haute couture. The term "Haute Couture" literally translated from French means "high sewing". But now this term means the production of the highest class clothes outside the assembly line and is translated as “high fashion”. Haute Couture Weeks are held in Paris annually in January and in July usually in the Croiselle du Louvre complex. The richest and most famous people in the world, who can afford a dress from 100 thousand dollars or more, consider it their duty to attend haute couture shows. Collections are flying fast. When we say haute couture, we only mean Paris. It is French legislation that thoroughly establishes what genuine High Fashion is and who can be called the name "Couture", couturier.
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Project "Let's open the world to each other" Nomination "I'll show you this city" PARIS Completed by: Ivan Smirnov, CLIO team, school No. 185, Nizhny Novgorodslide 2
ISLAND OF CITES Paris originated on the island of Cite in the middle of the Seine. In the 3rd century BC. a tribe of the Parisians settled here. In 52, the settlement was captured by the Romans, and in the 5th century by the Franks. The city, called Lutetia, developed and became a crossroads of important trade routes. Gradually, the name Lutetia disappeared from use, it was replaced by the name "city of the Parisians", which soon transformed into Paris. Over time, the city went beyond the island of the City, people settled on the banks of the Seine, occupied the hills closest to it. Now, from the medieval buildings of the eastern part of the Cité, only the Cathedral of Notre Dame has survived.
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CATHEDRAL OF NOTHER OF PARIS The foundation stone of the cathedral was laid in 1163 by King Louis VII and Pope Alexander III. Before that, on the site of the cathedral there was an ancient Roman temple of the 1st century, later - a Christian basilica. The construction of Notre Dame Cathedral continued until 1345. History has not preserved the name of the first architect of the cathedral. It is only known that the Parisian bishop Maurice de Sully took part in the drafting of the project. The building came to us in an unfinished state. Two of its 70-meter towers were to be crowned with spiers.
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The cathedral is a five-aisled basilica (length 130 m, width 105 m, vault height 35 m). The entrance overlooks the central high nave, the choir and the altar. The cathedral houses the largest organ in France (master Clicquot, 18th century, 7800 pipes)
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STAINED GLASS "ROSES" Of the interior decorations of the 13th century in Notre Dame Cathedral, only the stained glass windows of the "rose" - a round window (10 meters in diameter) of the southern portal of the central facade - have been preserved. The stained glass window is dedicated to the theme of "blessed eternity": around Jesus Christ are the apostles, saints and angels of paradise.
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SQUARE OF JOHN XXIII Behind the southern facade of the Cathedral of Notre Dame is the square of John XXIII. On the site of the square, at first there was a construction waste dump, then, from the 17th century, the residence of the archbishop. In 1831, the building was demolished, the prefect of the Seine, Rambuteau, bought the wasteland, planted trees and flowers there and decorated it with a fountain of the virgin (1845).
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CONCIERGERY Conciergerie is part of the royal castle of the Capet era (14th century). The two towers of the castle - Caesar and Silver - are framed on both sides by facades of the 17th century. From the Middle Ages, the hall of warriors, the hall of armed guards, kitchen services, and the courtyard have been preserved in the castle
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NEW BRIDGE The new bridge connects the western part of the Ile de la Cité with both banks of the Seine. Contrary to its name, it is the oldest surviving bridge in Paris. The first stone was laid on May 31, 1578. Construction completed in 1606. The bridge project belonged to the outstanding architect Androuet du Cerso. The bridge was so strong that it was never rebuilt.
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Equestrian STATUE OF HENRY IV In 1614, a statue of Henry IV was erected near the New Bridge. During the French Revolution, the statue was removed from the pedestal, but in 1818 it was restored by the sculptor Lemo.
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SACRET-CORE BASILICA When Prussian troops besieged Paris in 1870, two French Catholics, Alexandre Leganti and Roo de Fleury, swore that if France won the war, they would build a church and dedicate it to the Sacred Heart of Christ. France lost, but Paris escaped occupation. In 1875, the construction of the basilica began with donations from the people. The project was designed by the architect Abadi. The consecration of the temple took place in 1919. The basilica was built in neo-Byzantine style from white sandstone. The interior is richly decorated with marble sculpture, stained glass windows and mosaics.
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THE CATHEDRAL OF THE HOUSE OF THE INVALID Frequent wars led to the fact that in the middle of the 17th century in France there were many retired soldiers with disabilities who were forced to beg. In 1670, Louis XIV decided to build a house and a temple for them. The Cathedral of the Les Invalides (architect Aardouin-Mansart) is an example of architectural elegance and symmetry. The facade is decorated with a double colonnade. The huge dome, entwined with golden garlands and flowers, is crowned with a gilded lantern with a spire. Napoleon Bonaparte is buried in the crypt of the cathedral.
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PANTHEON In 1744, seriously ill Louis XV vowed to build a temple in honor of the patroness of Paris, Saint Genevieve. The consecration of the church took place in 1790. During the French Revolution, the church was turned into the Pantheon - the tomb of great people. The architecture of the building is an example of classicism. The vaults of the building support the columns of the Corinthian order. There are no window openings in the walls. They are replaced by marufle canvases pasted on stone walls. The painting cycle created by Puvis de Chavannes and Laurent is dedicated to Saint Genevieve.
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In the 20th century, 4 sculptural groups were installed at the supports of the dome of the Pantheon (counterclockwise): “Jean-Jacques Rousseau” (Bartolome, 1912), “To the glory of the generals of the revolution” (Gask, 1925), “To orators and publicists of the Restoration era” (Marquest , 1919), Diderot and the Encyclopedists (Treroir, 1925) and The National Convention (Sicard, 1924)
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FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM Attached to the light dome of the Pantheon is a working replica of the Foucault's pendulum, with which the physicist Léon Foucault showed in 1851 that the Earth rotates. Anyone can verify that this is actually the case.
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PALEI ROYAL The palace was built in the 17th century by order of Cardinal Richelieu. After his death, the palace passed into the possession of King Louis XIII. When Anna of Austria settled here, the palace became known as the Royal Palace (Palais Royal). The architectural ensemble of the Palais-Royal consists of the palace itself, which today houses the Council of State, and galleries that frame the inner garden on three sides, planned by Louis XIV himself.
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SQUARE OF CONSENT The place for the square was chosen by Louis XV, and the project was developed by J.-A. Gabriel. The construction of the square was completed in 1779. The square acquired its modern look in 1836, when the architect Hitorf installed the Luxor obelisk in its center - a gift from the Egyptian Pasha Mahmet Ali.
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Tuileries In the 16th century, the site of the garden was a landfill, and the clay mined here was used to make tiles - in French "tuile", from which the name Tuileries originated. By order of Catherine de Medici, a garden was laid out on this site, which became the first public place for outdoor walks.
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TRIUMPHAL ARCH IN THE CAROUSEL SQUARE The triumphal arch was erected at the beginning of the 19th century in honor of the victories of Napoleon. It is decorated with bas-reliefs depicting the most famous episodes of the Napoleonic wars. The triumphal arch served as a solemn entrance to the residence of the emperor - the Tuileries Palace. An equestrian group was installed on the arch, removed by order of Napoleon from the portal of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice. In 1815, the sculpture was returned to Italy, and the arch was crowned with a bronze quadriga with a statue of Peace.
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LOUVR The palace complex of the Louvre has evolved over many centuries. At the end of the 12th century, King Philip-Augustus built a castle that protected the approaches to the island of Cité. The fortress was called the Louvre (from leovar - fortification) In the 14th century, fortress walls were erected around the city and the castle lost its defensive function. Under Charles V, it was rebuilt and turned into a royal residence. In the 16th century, a significant part of the building was demolished and a new palace was built on the vacant site, which was constantly expanded over time.
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Until recently, the museum's exposition occupied only the right wing of the palace, the Old Louvre and the Square Court. In 1981, a decision was made to create the Grand Louvre. The Ministry of Finance, which occupied the left wing of the palace, moved to another building, the area of the museum expanded significantly. There was a problem of creating a single central entrance. According to the project of the architect Yeo Ming Lei, a glass pyramid was built in the courtyard of the Louvre, connecting all departments of the museum with underground passages. It housed a hall, cash desks, wardrobe, shops where you can buy catalogs, souvenirs, books.
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MUSEUM OF THE LOUVRE As a museum, the Louvre opened in 1793. The basis of the exposition was the collections of the French kings. Currently, the Louvre Museum holds more than 25,000 works of art. The museum is divided into 7 departments: Ancient East and Islamic art, Ancient Egypt, ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman art, arts and crafts, European painting (1200-1850), European sculpture (1100-1850), graphics. The gems of the Louvre collection are Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo and Nike of Samothrace. Venus de Milo
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THE CHURCH OF SAINT-EUSTACHE The church of Saint-Eustache was built in the middle of the 18th century with money raised by the merchants of the nearby market. It is one of the last Gothic churches in Paris. The originality of the temple lies in the combination of Gothic vaults with Renaissance forms of the facade and columns. Moliere, Cardinal Richelieu, Madame Pompadour were baptized in this church. Here, Berlioz and Liszt performed their works on the church organ. Among the artistic treasures of the church are paintings by Rubens and sculptures by Pigalle.
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PALACE OF JUSTICE In ancient times, the palace of the Roman governors stood on this site, and in the 13th century, during the Capetian dynasty, a fortified castle was built, which served as the residence of the first French kings. At the end of the 14th century, the Louvre became the royal palace, and the Parisian parliament was housed in the old residence. After the French Revolution, the building became known as the Palace of Justice. Now it houses the highest court of France - the Court of Cassation.
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SAINT-CHAPELLE The ensemble of the Palace of Justice includes the chapel of Saint-Chapelle (Holy Chapel), built in the 13th century by order of Louis IX to store a relic - the crown of thorns of Jesus Christ. Saint-Chapelle consists of two chapels, one above the other. The lower one was intended for courtiers. At the top there was a service for the royal family. The chapel is crowned with a 75-meter spire. The openwork rose on the façade dates from the 15th century. The stained-glass windows of the 13th century have been preserved in the lancet windows - 1134 scenes on biblical subjects.
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Field of Mars The field of Mars was created at the end of the 18th century as a training ground for students of the Military School and named after the god of war. The first horse races in Paris (1780), the first experiments on aerostatics (1783), the first attempt to rise in a balloon (1784) took place here. In 1889, the Champ de Mars was chosen as the site for the construction of the Eiffel Tower. At the beginning of the 20th century, a beautiful park was laid out here.
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EIFFEL TOWER Symbol of Paris and France, the famous Eiffel Tower was built by the engineer Gustave Eiffel in 1889 as an exhibit of the World Industrial Exhibition. The 324-meter tower has 3 observation decks: at a height of 57, 115 and 276 m. On days of excellent visibility, from the top observation deck, the view can cover a space with a radius of up to 70 km.
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Attractions: 1. Eiffel Tower. 2. Louvre. 3. Versailles. 4. Cinema "Geode".
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Paris is at the crossroads of trade routes and rivers, in the heart of a rich agricultural region. It was one of the main cities of France in the 10th century, with a royal palace, rich abbeys and cathedrals. In the 12th century, Paris became one of the first centers in Europe for education and the arts. Throughout its existence, Paris has always been at the center of events that marked the history of France.
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Paris, already a city of the Franks, for some time was only a modest residence, first of the Merovingian, and then of the Carolingian kings. It turned into a true capital in 987, when Hugh Capet founded a new dynasty and gave the city a status that it retained throughout the history of France. At the end of the Middle Ages, the city had about 200 thousand inhabitants. Starting from the reign of Francis I, during which the first pavilions of the Louvre were built, and until the French Revolution, the city grew relatively slowly.
Only since the 16th century, the capital of France has been constantly growing and developing again. The Fronde forced the kings to move the residence outside the city, but Paris continues to expand and build up.
Paris in the Middle Ages
In the XVIII century, Paris becomes a recognized trendsetter, entertainment center.
The storming of the Bastille in July 1789 became one of the main actions of the Parisians during the First French Revolution, and the Parisians also played far from the last roles in the subsequent Second and Third Revolutions.
During the era of the French Revolution, the architecture of the city practically did not change. Due to the emigration of their owners, many mansions were abandoned, churches were closed.
In the 1990s and the first decade of the 20th century, also known as the Belle Epoque, France experienced an unprecedented rise and economic development.
After the October Revolution, Paris is the capital of Russian emigration. In the late 1960s - early. 1970s work on the reconstruction of the city is expanding. New buildings with modern architectural forms are changing the traditional face of Paris.
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And today Paris retains all its importance, triumphant grandeur and charm, despite the fact that its face is being changed by construction projects such as Beaubourg and the ambitious Grands Projects building program carried out during the presidency of François Mitterrand. In addition to the Grand Arch of Defense and the Opéra Bastille, Mitterrand's projects included the renovation of the Louvre by the architect Pei, the La Villette complex on the northeastern outskirts of the city, and in the southeast, the Bibliothèque de France, which was equipped with state-of-the-art computers.
The capital of France today
The Eiffel Tower is the most recognizable architectural landmark of Paris, world famous as a symbol of France, named after its designer Gustave Eiffel. Eiffel himself called it simply - a 300-meter tower. In 2006, 6,719,200 people visited the tower, and in its entire history until December 31, 2007, 236,445,812 people. That is, the tower is the most visited and most photographed landmark in the world. This symbol of Paris was conceived as a temporary structure - the tower served as the entrance arch of the Paris World Exhibition in 1889. From the planned demolition (20 years after the exhibition), the tower was saved by radio antennas installed at the very top - this was the era of the introduction of radio.
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The Louvre is one of the largest museums in the world The museum is located in the center of Paris, on the right bank of the Seine, on Rue Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement of the capital.
The building of the museum is an ancient royal palace. The equestrian statue of Louis XIV marks the starting point of the so-called historical axis of Paris, but the palace is not aligned with it.
The Louvre is one of the oldest museums with a rich history of collecting art and historical relics of France, from the time of the Capetian dynasty to the present day.
Everything was collected in the Louvre, this museum can be called universal. His collections cover vast geographic and temporal spaces: from Western Europe to Iran through Greece, Egypt and the Middle East; from antiquity to 1848. European art of the latest period of time - from 1848 to the present day - is presented at the Musee d'Orsay and the Center Georges Pompidou, and Asian art is exhibited at the Guimet Museum. The art of Africa, America and Oceania is on display at the Quai Branly Museum.
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Presentation on the topic: “My beloved Paris” Completed by: student of Group 09-SMOS-23 Yulia Kostiv Checked by: Isaeva I. Yu.slide 2
www.themegallery.com Company Logo Paris is the capital of France, the most important economic and cultural center of the country, located in the northern part of central France, in the Ile-de-France region on the banks of the Seine River. In addition, Paris is of great international importance - the headquarters of UNESCO, the OECD and the International Chamber of Commerce are located here. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Throughout the existence of France, Paris has been a treasure of the nation, fraught with centuries-old culture and incredible charm. More than 27 million tourists come to Paris every year to get to know this amazing city better. If you ask the locals to tell you a few facts about their city, the dialogue is usually limited to the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomphe, wonderful local cuisine and modern fashion. However, we want to tell you about the lesser-known details of Paris, which are sometimes not even known to the inhabitants of the French capital themselves. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Many people have been dreaming of Paris since their early childhood. The dream comes true, but, what is most interesting, most of all, the rest in France is remembered not by the beautiful architecture, not by French dishes and not by fashionable shops, but by such a seemingly banal mode of transport as the subway. The reason for this was the following episode: Russian tourists, who descended for the first time into the "Paris subway", could not get into the subway car. The train stopped, but the doors did not open in front of them; after standing for a while, the train moved on. The amazed girls found out only by the example of the next train and the French, who were accustomed to what was happening, that in the Paris metro, passengers themselves must open and close the doors in the cars. In addition, the Paris metro (very shallow) does not announce stations, and there are no metro employees at the turnstiles - such a self-service system. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Don't be surprised if a Frenchman you turn to for help on one of the streets of Paris answers your simple and understandable question in English in French. The French are very jealous of their language, to such an extent that in 1994 a special law was passed that regulates the rules for the use of English words. French linguists even deliberately introduced a number of new terms and concepts to replace those whose appearance was due to new foreign scientific developments and technology. Parisians are more than confident that their native language is no worse than English and quite often pretend that they do not know English words and expressions. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Traders on the Champs Elysees often make Russian tourists smile. Groups of energetic African Americans, hung with small eiffel turrets and headscarves, literally stick around tourists from all sides. As soon as they understand what country you come from, they begin to guess your name: “Julia? Kate! Marina?!" The gendarmes on bicycles disperse the merchants - a rather unusual and even strange picture. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo The fountain in front of the Eiffel Tower can be considered an unofficial place for swimming and relaxing on the grass under the sun in hot weather. This is a place for pleasant meetings and no less pleasant new acquaintances, people are friendly and open for communication. Company Logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Add your Title Text n here Text in here A loaf under the arm of passers-by is already an old tradition and one of the symbols of France. After all, a baguette (baguette) - a long soft loaf of flour, yeast, salt and water is an invention of the French. In France, in general, an unusual number of shops selling bread and various floury sweets. The most popular of the flour products are called croque-monsieur (croque-monsieur) and croque-madame (croque-madame). The first is two long baked baguette halves, pre-buttered and lined with ham and cheese. Croque Madame is different in that its filling is complemented by a flirtatious egg yolk. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo The following unusual fact from Paris is not for aesthetes. The thing is that Parisians are crazy about dogs, which are more numerous in the city than children and can appear with them in many public places, including in a number of restaurants. The four-legged friends of man in Paris number in excess of half a million. Of course, this is one of the reasons why you need to walk the streets of the French capital with caution. In addition to dog excrement, it is quite normal to find streams of soapy water under your feet - this is a consequence of the work to clean up the city. One of the special machines for such work is codenamed "motorcycle vacuum cleaner". company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Translucent polyethylene bins are the norm in Paris, despite the fact that they can hardly be called a decoration of the city. The replacement for this unsightly design was due to several explosions organized by terrorists in 1995, when explosive devices were thrown into garbage cans. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo In Paris you can drink water straight from the tap. Residents of the French capital are extremely proud of the water treatment and sewerage system in their city. There is even an unusual Sewers Museum in Paris. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo And now a little digression into history... Not everyone had and still likes the unusual structure of Paris - the Eiffel Tower, which is emphasized the main attraction when you choose tours to Paris. Many consider this symbol of France to be a real ugliness, one of these many was the famous writer Guy de Maupassant. Meanwhile, he regularly dined at the restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, which caused amazement among those around him. Once he was asked: “Why do you dine in the tower, do you hate it ?!” In response, the writer called the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower "the only place where this nightmare is not visible." company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo The Paris metro is the 6th busiest in the world. In 2010, 1.48 billion passengers traveled on the Paris subway, and despite the fact that this is 10 million less than the New York subway, in 2011 the situation will undoubtedly change in favor of the Paris subway. In addition, the Paris underground public transport system is one of the oldest in Europe, second only to London and Budapest. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Paris' Highest and Lowest Temperatures The record for the city's hottest temperature was set on July 28, 1948, when the thermometer rose to 40.4 degrees Celsius. On the coldest and frostiest days, the screens of shopping malls displayed a figure of -23.9 degrees. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Your Text Paris is turning into a cycling city A few decades ago, Paris was a car city with polluted air, but in the late 90s things began to change for the better. To date, the city has more than 440 kilometers of bicycle paths. It is planned that by 2014 this figure will increase to 700 kilometers. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Paris has the largest number of fashionable restaurants Paris is home to all the restaurants that feature their names on the front pages of the most famous print publications. Despite the fact that this fact is not a secret for local residents, visiting tourists are always surprised by the variety of places where you can have a romantic dinner with your loved one or have fun with a large group of friends. company logo
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www.themegallery.com Company Logo Add our Title Add Your Title The Eiffel Tower is not allowed to be photographed at night Yes, we were not mistaken. At least without special permission from the tower management. Back in 1990, a French court ruled that all lights on the Eiffel Tower were protected by copyright. Therefore, do not rush to post photos of Paris at night on your blog - you are breaking the law of France. According to the French, all night photos of the tower posted on the Internet were officially authorized by the administration. company logo
