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France is a country with long and dramatic history. A country of unique flare and lifestyle, picturesque old towns and castles. Also, a country of beautiful landscapes and nature. Impressive cathedrals and a blue coast of dreams, as well. Paris is one of the beautiful cities in the world. Bonjour, Paris! In the very heart of Paris, you can meet Arc de Triomphe. The Arc de Triomphe is dedicated to the soldiers who fought in the French armies of the Revolution and the First Empire.

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Louvre is the most important of Paris ' top museums, a beautiful palace that once was the home of the Kings of France. At the glass pyramid, visitors enter the museum in the palace courtyard. The Louvre Museum houses over 30,000 works of art (a great example is Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece- Mona Lisa)—from antiquities to 15th to 19th century European paintings. On the world exhibition of 1900 a major structure was designed to be seen from any point-Eifel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is also the most popular tourist attraction in Paris and ranks high on France's list of places to visit. It is hard to believe that when it was first revealed, the structure was mocked as monstrosity. Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel built the landmark tower for the 1889 Paris Exhibition which marked the centenary of the French Revolution. The tower consists of 18,000 sections of sturdy iron (weighing more than 10,000 tonnes) held together by 2,5 million rivets. Already deemed a masterful architectural characteristic this groundbreaking framework is the most emblematic sight in Paris. Sitting like an ornamental sculpture at the highest point of France, the Basilique Sacré-Coeur has a special atmosphere. The alabaster exterior combines Romanesque and Byzantine designs, and it appears like a wedding cake (which is its nickname) from far away.

The stunning mosaic of Christ with a blazing heart inside the basilica gives the sanctuary an emotional and spiritual strength, appropriate for a church which was built after the FrancoPrussian War as a symbol of hope. Many candles illuminate the sanctuary, which contrast with the dark, somber space. The Notre-Dame, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, sits in the center of Paris, on the Ile de la Cité, opposite the Latin Quarter attractions. An island on the river Seine, Ile de la Cité is Paris ' architectural and geological center. The Romans founded the Gallo-Roman city of Lutetia on this small plot of land, and the Kings of France lived there from the 6th to the 14th century. The Cathedral of Notre-Dame was built by King Louis IX (Saint Louis) and Bishop Maurice de Sully in 1163 and it took over 150 years to build. Patheon. Constructed as a church to rival the basilica of Saint Peter in Rome and the cathedral of Saint Paul in London, the Panthéon is the national mausoleum of the greatest citizens of France. In 1756 King Louis XV commissioned the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713-80) to build a new church on the site of the ruined Sainte-Geneviève Abbey, and in 1790 the church was finished....