Places to see in ( Paris - France ) La Defense
Places to see in ( Paris - France ) La Defense
La Défense is a major business district just west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of the Paris Metropolitan Area in the Île-de-France region, located in the department Hauts-de-Seine spread across the commune of Courbevoie, as well as parts of Puteaux and Nanterre.
La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district with 560 hectares (1,400 acres) of area, 72 glass and steel buildings (of which 19 are completed skyscrapers), 180,000 daily workers, and 3,500,000 square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade (le Parvis), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises.
The district is located at the westernmost extremity of the 10-kilometre-long (6.2 mi) Historical Axis of Paris, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe along the Avenue de la Grande Armée before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Courbevoie, Nanterre, and Puteaux. La Défense is primarily a business district and hosts a population of 25,000 permanent residents and 45,000 students. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year and houses an open-air museum.
La Défense is named after the statue La Défense de Paris by Louis-Ernest Barrias, which was erected in 1883 to commemorate the soldiers who had defended Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
In September 1958, The Public Establishment for Installation of La Défense (fr) (EPAD) buildings (of which the Esso Tower was the very first) were built and began to slowly replace the city's factories, shanties, and even a few farms.
It launched high-profile international competitions and/or construction greenlight of several key 300-to-320-metre (980 to 1,050 ft) tall sustainable development-style skyscrapers such as Tour Signal, Tour Phare, Hermitage Plaza, and Tour Generali. During said December 2005 Press Conference, EPAD released to the public an elaborate 3D animation film titled La Défense 2015.
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Basilique cathédrale de Saint-Denis
Aux abords de Paris et au beau milieu de Saint-Denis, la nécropole gothique des rois de France constitue un lieu historique encore très vivant. Découvrez ce monument sur le site du Nouveau Paris Ile-de-France :
TOP 10 des pires cités du 92 (Hauts-de-Seine)
TOP 10 des pires cités du 92 (Hauts-de-Seine)
Paris / bus tour
Bus tour - 2015
La Bourgogne : Insolite & Gourmande
Partez à la découverte de la Bourgogne de façon insolite et gourmande en moins d'une minute.
Appartement Parisien | Paris Hotels
This contemporary duplex Suite is a hidden treasure on the top floor, nestled under the roof, for an incomparable stay in Paris. Equipped with two living rooms, one dining room, one fully-equipped kitchen, two bedrooms, and an astonishing 72m terrace
La Seine Nighttime Compilation
Boat tour around La Seine in Paris. Finishes with a great view of the lit-up Eiffel Tower, and the flashing lights that follow.
Paris, France - Parc Georges Brassens (2018)
Parc Georges-Brassens is a public park located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, between rue des Morillons and rue de Périchaux. Opened in 1984, it occupies 7.74 hectares on the site of a former fish market, horse market and slaughterhouse, and preserves some of the old market structures. It is named for the French popular singer Georges Brassens (1921–1981) who lived in the neighborhood of the park at 9 impasse Florimont and 42 rue Santos Dumont. The nearest metro stations to the park are Convention and Porte-de-Vanves.
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and a population of 2,206,488. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, music and painting. The Paris Region had a GDP of €681 billion (US$850 billion) in 2016, accounting for 31 per cent of the GDP of France. In 2013–2014, the Paris Region had the third-highest GDP in the world and the largest regional GDP in the EU.
The City of Paris's administrative limits form an East-West oval centred on the island at its historical heart, the Île de la Cité; this island is near the top of an arc of the river Seine that divides the city into southern Rive Gauche (Left Bank) and northern Rive Droite regions. Paris is the core of a built-up area that extends well beyond its limits: commonly referred to as the agglomération Parisienne, and statistically as a unité urbaine (a measure of urban area), the Paris agglomeration's 2013 population of 10,601,122 made it the largest urban area in the European Union. City-influenced commuter activity reaches well beyond even this in a statistical aire urbaine de Paris (a measure of metropolitan area), that had a 2013 population of 12,405,426, a number one-fifth the population of France, the largest metropolitan area in the Eurozone.
The city is a major rail, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris-Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe after London Heathrow Airport with 63.8 million passengers in 2014) and Paris-Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily, and is the second busiest metro system in Europe after Moscow Metro. Paris's Gare du Nord is one of the ten busiest railway stations in the world, with 262 million passengers in 2015.
Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2016, with 7.4 million visitors. The Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art, and the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site. Popular landmarks in the centre of the city include the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, both on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre. Paris received 23 million visitors in 2017, making it the world's top tourist destination.
The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. Paris hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and the 1960, 1984, and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city and, every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes there.
The Paris Metro -- A Mini-User's Guide
. . . at least for taking the 13 métro North toward either Asnières-Gennevilliers, or Saint-Denis, from Paris.
The 13 is the most-used métro train in Paris, so is usually very crowded. Everyone complains, but as the Southern end serves only Chatillon and the Northern End serves only we racailles (riffraff) in Seine-Saint-Denis (le 93), (a reference to its postal code) nothing is done about it. I commuted for years into Paris on this train, and you can be sure, any delays or strikes will take place when you're tired and trying to get back home at day's end. They actually do that on purpose. Employers get their workers in the morning, then the workers get the shaft after a long day's labor.
These Northbound trains used to have either a blue or yellow lit sign on the sides, but those don't exist anymore, I discovered today. They were impossible to read as the trains zipped by, anyway. Now there is only a little sign at the head of the train. Better have sharp eyes, or be prepared to decipher the confusing electric signage.
The 13 line splits at La Fourche (the fork) kind of North of Montmartre sorta, and one line goes to Asnières-Gennevilliers via Clichy. There is a famous pet cemetery up in Asnières. You have to pay a lot to get in, but it's really creepy and fun, very worth it. The other line goes up into Saint-Denis, through the world's first industrial zone, still heavily polluted and foul smelling, which was massively (and selectively, ahem!) bombed during WWII. We still find live bombs from WWI and WWII around. Needless to say, vast areas have to be evacuated when they locate one (often during construction work)!
Here, you can hear unintelligible loudspeaker announcements, perhaps similar to what you are accustomed to at home. Don't stay out late, because the whole system starts to shut down after 11 pm or so. They think nothing of stopping the train halfway to your destination and kicking you out, when this happens. We have found ourselves in dark, deserted, scary places we didn't know a thing about, not a taxi in sight, on these unfortunate occasions. Public transportation starts again around 5 am.
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Restauration de l'école des Beaux-Arts de Paris
François Chatillon, Architecte en chef des Monuments Historiques et Jean-Marc Bustamante, directeur de l’école des Beaux-Arts, présentent la restauration de l'école des Beaux-Arts de Paris.