The "To Do when in Paris" Top Ten

Here are 10 things you absolutely do when you go to Paris:

1) take a crack at Montmartre Place du Tertre after looking at the view from Sacré-Coeur, dancers, jugglers and before you make a portrait from one of dozens of artists that are in place;

 

2) walk to the Champs-Elysees avenue Geoge V, rue Saint-Honoré and the Place Vendome to view the shop windows of Paris's most luxurious making jokes about how many clothes, bags, shoes and watches tens of thousands of euro could buy but you do not like that much;

The Paris Museum Pass

How and where to buy it?

There are many ways:

• paying it via the internet or can re ceverlo to your home within 10 days (plus pay € 9.50 for postage) or withdraw from the Tourist Office in Paris (without charge) at 25, rue des Pyramides;
• at the airports of Orly and Roissy Charles de Gaulle (in the 6 areas of tourist information);
• directly in the 26 monuments and museums;
• at railway stations Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est and Gare du Lyon (in the space tourist information);
• in the 4 FNAC stores.

How much does it cost?

• 2 days: 32 €
• 4 days: 48 €
• 6 days: 64 €

The summit of the Eiffel Tower Reopens

After several days of closing on the third level of the Eiffel Tower tomorrow, November 17, 2010, will reopen to the public again.

From November 3 the third floor is in fact closed for work for about two weeks and could not accommodate the thousands of visitors who daily flock to admire the city of Paris from about 300 feet high.
These days there we had to "accept" then stop, 200 meters below the second level without being able to visit the reconstruction of 'office of Gustave Eiffel portrait with her daughter and Thomas Edison, and the reconstruction of the' Office of Engineers that designed the Eiffel Tower with Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier.

Palace of Versailles

A few miles from the center of Paris, the famous Palace of Versailles, is just half an hour by train.

To get there you need only buy a ticket for € 3.05 one way with the RER train: take the RER C direction Versailles Rive Gauche at which stops you get off and walk a few hundred meters to the entrance of the Palace (a short walk compared to those who walk in the gardens!).

The Sainte Chapelle

The masterpiece of the most famous' Gothic architecture was built in 1242 in the Palais de la Cité to hold the Crown of Thorns brought by Jesus. Unfortunately, the Palais de la Cité, there are only reached the Sainte Chapelle and the Conciergerie and in its place there is now a courthouse.

Rue de Ménilmontant

A special mention to Rue de Ménilmontant, a street in Paris is rather special for this city.
It is indeed one of the steepest streets of Paris. If you happen to have to go in the highest part of the street, or east to the outskirts of Paris, I advise you not to get off at Metro Ménilmontant otherwise you had to make a nice climb! Choose rather to catch up with the two bus lines, 96 and 26. ( MAP )

The Pere Lachaise Cemetery

Being able to "see" so many celebrity all at once is not as easy as Père Lachaise. Certainly not see in the flesh ... but you can be spiritually close to your myths.
Reach the most famous cemetery in France is easy, there is a Metro station that bears his name (lines 2 and 3) just 250 meters from the main entrance, and another Metro station (Philippe Auguste, line 2) to 100 meters from the entrance. By bus you can get directly to the main lines 61 and 69.

The numbers of this large monument:

• 44 hectares in size;
• 1804 years of official opening;
• 70,000 graves;
• 5,300 trees.

Admission is free and on entering the atmosphere is ... cemetery! :-O Who would have thought it? In reality it's very popular with people who go there just to walk in peace, and of course many tourists with maps and GPS to find the person buried here. So do not expect a real morgue ...
These tools are required not to get lost and find a safe way in all the graves of people you want to visit.
It 's a great place and if you take shortcuts between the graves do not be surprised if you are in areas quite gruesome (it's also easy to see open graves for the trees that have had the upper hand).
Among the most famous people buried here:

1. Guillaume APOLLINAIRE (poet);
2. Honoré de BALZAC (writer);
3. Maria CALLAS (vocals);
4. Luigi CHERUBINI (musician);
5. Frédéric CHOPIN (composer);
6. Auguste COMTE (philosopher);
7. Jacques Louis DAVID (painter);
8. Eugène DELACROIX (painter);
9. Max ERNST (painter);
10. Louis GAY-LUSSAC (scientist);
11. Georges HAUSSMANN (prefect of the Seine);
12. ELOISA e ABELARDO (legendary lovers);
13. Jean de LA FONTAINE (writer);
14. Amedeo MODIGLIANI (painter);
15. MOLIERE (writer, actor);
16. Gaspard MONGE (mathematics);
17. Jim MORRISON (vocals);
18. Edith PIAF (singer);
19. Marcel PROUST (writer);
20. Gioacchino ROSSINI (composer);
21. Oscar WILDE (writer).

Obviously, the most visited grave is that of ... Jim Morrison, always full of flowers and even surrounded by barricades.
The second most sought after is that instead of Oscar Wild, and I recommend it to carry lipstick with you when you go to visit because it is a must ... baciarla. kiss her. In fact you will find thousands of lipstick kisses scattered over the grave!

The Passages Couverts and the Galeries

When you're around Paris to do some 'shopping do not stop to look at the shop windows that look out on the roads. There are in fact, in this dream city, passages and galleries hard to find unless you go with the intention of entering it.

They are the grandfathers and grandmothers of the modern shopping center, which now fill our city all go back to the early nineteenth century, an era in which the number of crossings in Paris reached a number of 150 (at today there are still about twenty ), and nearly all are located on the Right Bank (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 9th and 10th arrondissements).

The Arc de Triomphe - l'Etoile

A colossal monument, that's the impression one gets from seeing him around!
It seems rather small when seen from the Place de La Concorde, located at the opposite end of the famous Champs-Élysées.
To you to judge numbers:

• 55 meters high (almost like a palace of 18 floors!);
• 45 meters wide;
• 2.2 km from Place de la Concorde;

Built by Napoleon I to the day after the battle of Asterlitz is located in a fairly peripheral to the heart of Paris, the center of a large roundabout where fewer than 12 major roads converge, and for this reason called the 'Etoile (from can be distinguished in red on the road, just a giant star to 12 points).

The Stade de France, the tour

Is it possible to visit the Stade de France? Certamente!! Certainly! And the visit organized not only limited to the stands or field of play but also to all the hidden parts and usually inaccessible to the simple result of the hundreds of events that take place here.
Here the numbers:

• 81,338 spectators in configuration football / rugby;
• 70,000 spectators at athletic configuration;
• 1998 the year of opening;
• 46 meters height at which it has great coverage;
• € 346 million development cost (excluding fees).

To get there, as well as numerous bus lines that have their stop a few feet away, you can make good use of the RER line B and get off at La Plaine-Stade de France, but this is just 800 meters from the stadium and it is therefore

The Eiffel Tower from the Sacre-Coeur, where is it?

The typical application crowned with amazement of those who reach the terrace of Paris (the Butte de Montmartre) is:
But where is the Eiffel Tower??? :-O :-O
Well, the tower has not been stolen, they have not moved as she reaches the Basilica, but Paris is at our feet. But even though you are on the highest point of the city (without having to climb up a building) just do not see, it seems absurd!
Simply there are trees and buildings that lie Montmartre!
To see it from here you must remove a few dozen yards down the street:
When you are on the road between the two panoramic terraces, or at the Rue du Cardinal Dubois, head to the funicular and walk along the sidewalk after less than 100 meters (almost at the corner, and where the street changes name to Rue Saint-ELEUTHERE) You can find chinks between the railings, trees and buildings through which the tower will magically visible! ( SEE MAP )
 

From here you can sbizarrirvi to make many beautiful photos, very beautiful as you have rooftops and trees for use as natural settings.

Needless to say, for a better view of the whole of Paris (and also here, including the Eiffel Tower) you can climb the dome of the Basilica of Sacre-Coeur.

The Cité Internationale Universitaire

The CIUP is a 'French association which provides accommodation to foreign students and researchers studying in the' Ile de France. It 's a perfect place then for those who come here in Paris, Erasmus, but you must register and apply for candidacy to get an accommodation here long before you leave.
A bit 'of numbers to better understand:

• 5,600 beds;
• 141 nationalities;
• 200,000 students will be hosted in its 80 year history;
• 34 acres for expansion;
• 40 maisons (including 2 outside the Cité).

I can assure you that even if you are not students or researchers who seek a residence in Paris, this beautiful town is an ideal place to make a funny walk. The Cité Universitaire Intrenationale is in fact based within a large landscaped park, and as unique and special, every nation here has its foundation built his Maison with its typical architectural style.