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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.
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