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L´Hôtel National des Invalides, “The National Palace of the Invalids” in English, is a majestic construction that, today, is the symbol of the city of Paris. Built in between 1671 and 1676, it was devised as a military residence for those old or retired soldiers by illness or injury. Located in the 7th Arrondissement of the French capital, it´s a fundamental tourist point that no tourist can miss. Today, its use is different. There you can find museums, monuments and other cultural homes, like the Army Museum where you can find Napoleon´s Mausoleum with his remains and, also, although in another area, the Charles de Gaulle Memorial. We can also visit the Order of Liberation Museum and the Museum of Plans-Reliefs, although all the camera flashes are centred in the “Musée de l´Armée” for being buried there the great Napoleon I and his son, Napoleon II. In its architecture the great golden dome and the Chapel of St. Louis stand out, which were built by the order of King Louis XIV for personal use. Today, it´s one of the tourist´s favourite points, who come in thousands there just to take a picture of the beautiful church. To visit these museums and monuments, rent apartments in...
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La Défense is a very peculiar building which is in the outskirts of Paris. Its presence in that area indicates the shopping centre and business centre of the French capital and the whole country. It was designed by Otto Von Spreckelsen and it was inaugurated in 1989 as a commemoration of the 200 years of the French Revolution. For its first anniversary what was built was the Eiffel Tower, with which we can compare its importance to this modern building which has nothing to do with classic and old Paris, but that says a lot about the city and its evolution. But La Défense isn´t just a building but it´s a great cultural work in itself for being a world tourist attraction and for having in its fields and parks works of art exposed in open air, informal art gallery style. A work of Salvador Dalí is there, at the reach of the whole world. Also, that area is full of shopping centres, so it´s a good option if one wants to go shopping. In the map of the city, this great arch of La Défense is aligned with the Arc de Triomphe, uniting so two periods of time in the same city and two monuments that will stay in the history of mankind. To visit these inspiring places, rent apartments in...
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Known as the “Belly of Paris”, Les Halles is a monstrous shopping centre that, previously, until mid-20th century, was situated in the open air in the heart of the French city but that, subsequently and for hygiene motives, moved to the suburbs. The market has a laberynthine design and it´s really complicated to walk through if you don´t know it well. Sadly this wasn´t well taken by the public and, for that reason, there are plans to redesign it completely, although the project is not yet closed. One of the most striking and beautiful things about the design of Les Halles is that in its galleries there are large and imposing sculptures, fountains and mosaics and it even includes a museum inside, called the Musée Grévin, which is a wax museum. Inside you can find hundreds of clothes shops from the most famous brands in the world, restaurants, services and everything necessary so that the visitors have a good time shopping with the partners, friends or family. You can enjoy Les Halles, one of the most visited and interesting shopping centres of the French city, by renting apartments in...
Mónica Boixeda
El museo se convirtió, a base de donaciones, en uno de los más importantes de París y aquellos que sean amantes del arte no pueden dejar de pasear por sus galerías y disfrutar de las obras de algunos de los artistas más famosos de la historia. Jules Marmottan acquired in 1882 the museum that, subsequently, ended up becoming in the Marmottan Monet Museum and that, in that time, was the hunting pavillion for the Duke of Valmy, called Cristophe Edmond Kellermann. When Jules died, the person who inherited the place was his son Paul who, because it had many art objects and paintings from the First French Empire, decided to extend it with another pavillion. When he died in 1932, he gave all his collection to the French Academy of Fine Arts and, two years later, the Musée Marmottan Monet was created, as well as the Marmottan Library. One of the most important moments the museum had was when it received the donation of Michel Monet, son of the paintor, and at that moment, it became the place with the biggest collection of works of art by Monet. For this reason, today it´s known as the Marmottan Monet Museum. You can rent apartments in Paris and visit a place that will impress...
Mónica Boixeda
The Centre National d´Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, or simply Centre Pompidou, is a museum designed by the young architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. In the same building you can find the National Modern Art Museum, the IRCAM, the Musical Investigation Centre and the library that can hold no less than two thousand people and it´s a completely public place. The centre, which was inaugurated in 1977, has one of the most complete modern art collections in the world and it´s compared to the Tate Modern in London and the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York. The place has that name because it was built during the mandate of the President Georges Pompidou who died before they finished the building and it was his successor, Valéry Giscard d´Estaing, who inaugurated it. In 1997 and 1999 it was rehabilitated and it recently opened again in 2000 and, from that moment, it became one of the most visited places in France because no less than six million people visit it every year. Centre National d´Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou is one of the places you can´t not visit in this European country. You can rent apartments in Paris and not let this chance...
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