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Panthéon, Paris

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:25:46 -0800

The Panthéon (Latin: Pantheon,[1] from Greek Πάνθειον meaning "Every god") is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens. It is an early example of neoclassicism, with a façade modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's "Tempietto". Located in the 5th arrondissement on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Panthéon looks out over all of Paris. Designer Jacques-Germain Soufflot had the intention of combining the lightness and brightness of the gothic cathedral with classical principles, but its role as a mausoleum required the great Gothic windows to be blocked. Nevertheless, it is one of the most important architectural achievements of its time and the first great neoclassical monument.

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Genio incompreso...o forse troppo caro???

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:27:53 -0800

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Montmartre est une ancienne commune française du département de la Seine, annexée en 1860 par Paris. L'essentiel de son territoire constitue depuis lors le 18e arrondissement de la capitale, une fraction en ayant été aussi été attribuée à la commune de Saint-Ouen.
Montmartre est désormais un quartier de Paris situé dans le nord de la capitale, sur la colline de la butte Montmartre qui est l'un des principaux lieux touristiques de Paris. C'est à Montmartre qu'est situé le point culminant de Paris : 130,53 mètres, altitude du sol naturel à l’intérieur du cimetière jouxtant l’église Saint-Pierre de Montmartre.
On accède au sommet de la colline par le funiculaire ou en empruntant un escalier de 222 marches.
Ce quartier est desservi par la ligne du métropolitain avec les stations Anvers, Pigalle et Blanche ainsi que par la ligne (stations Pigalle, Abbesses, Lamarck — Caulaincourt et Jules Joffrin).
Montmartre fut longtemps un village hors de Paris.
Son nom a sans doute pour origine 1 le Mons Martyrum, le mont des martyrs (martyr venant du grec martus, témoin) car il fut, selon la légende, un lieu de passage important de Saint Denis, premier évêque de Paris, qui aurait survécu à son exécution. Victime des persécutions antichrétiennes il fut décapité sur la colline de Montmartre avec deux autres coreligionnaires. La légende raconte qu'il ramassa sa tête et marcha jusqu'à l'emplacement de l'actuelle basilique de Saint-Denis où il fut inhumé. Une des rues historiques menant à Montmartre s'appelle la rue des Martyrs. Une autre origine étymologique est cependant évoquée : Mons Martis (le mont de Mars) car à l'époque gallo-romaine, un temple dédié à Mars, dieu de la guerre, se trouvait sur la butte (ainsi qu'un autre temple, dédié à Mercure).
Lors du siège de Paris en 1590, Henri IV fit installer 2 batteries d’artillerie ; « l’une sur Montmartre l’autre sur le haut de Montfaucon vers le Mesnil qui commencèrent à tirer et battre en ruine, vers les rues Saint-Honoré, Saint-Denis et Saint-Martin et les environs. »2.
Lors de la formation des communes et des départements en 1790, Montmartre devint une commune de la Seine. Son premier maire fut Félix Desportes, un bourgeois originaire de Rouen.
En 1840-1845 la construction de l'enceinte de Thiers partagea le territoire de la commune en deux.
Au 1er janvier 1860, lors de l'extension de Paris du mur des Fermiers généraux à l'enceinte de Thiers, le territoire de la commune fut réparti comme suit :
la plus grande partie, située à l'intérieur de l'enceinte de Thiers, fut rattachée à Paris et y devint un quartier appelé Montmartre dans le 18e arrondissement ;
la petite partie restante, située hors des fortifications de l'enceinte de Thiers, fut rattachée à la commune de Saint-Ouen.
Montmartre a été l'un des lieux importants de la Commune de Paris en 1871.
Aux xixe et xxe siècle Montmartre a été un lieu phare de la peinture, accueillant des artistes comme Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen, Van Gogh, Modigliani, Picasso... Plus tard les artistes peintres abandonnèrent peu à peu le quartier de Montmartre, préférant se réunir désormais dans un autre quartier de Paris, le quartier du Montparnasse.
Historiquement le quartier de Montmartre comprend la partie ouest du 18e arrondissement, la partie nord du 9e arrondissement ainsi qu'une partie du quartier des Batignolles, couvrant ce qui fut le territoire de l'Abbaye des Dames de Montmartre durant sept siècles.

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Musée du Louvre

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:26:28 -0800

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The Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [myze dy luvʁ]) – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).
The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique sculpture.[4] In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years.[5] During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.
The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The size of the collection increased under Napoleon and the museum was renamed the Musée Napoléon. After the defeat of Napoléon at Waterloo, many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and gifts since the Third Republic. As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.

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Arc de triomphe in Paris

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:26:38 -0800

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The Arc de Triomphe (Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named Place de l'Étoile), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.[3] There is a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre. The Arc de Triomphe (in English: "Triumphal Arch") honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis (Axe historique) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense. The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant patriotic messages.
The monument stands 50 metres (164 ft) in height, 45 m (148 ft) wide and 22 m (72 ft) deep. The large vault is 29.19 m (95.8 ft) high and 14.62 m (48.0 ft) wide. The small vault is 18.68 m (61.3 ft) high and 8.44 m (27.7 ft) wide. It was the largest triumphal arch in 1 existence until the construction of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, in 1982.[4] Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus. The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, (marking the end of hostilities in World War I), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.

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Quei 10.000 passi...insieme B&W

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:46:42 -0800

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Foto B&W

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Notre Dame the Paris, inside

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:26:16 -0800

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Notre Dame de Paris (IPA: [nɔtʁ dam də paʁi]; French for Our Lady of Paris), also known as Notre Dame Cathedral,[2] is a Gothic, Roman Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris: that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra (official chair) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois. The cathedral treasury houses a reliquary with the purported Crown of Thorns.
Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in France and in Europe, and the naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture. The first period of construction from 1163 into 1240s coincided with the musical experiments of the Notre Dame school.
Jean de Jandun recognized the cathedral as one of Paris's three most important buildings in his 1323 "Treatise on the Praises of Paris":

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Notre Dame di Parigi

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:25:56 -0800

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La cattedrale di Notre-Dame di Parigi, spesso chiamata semplicemente Notre-Dame (ovvero "Nostra Signora", in riferimento alla Madonna) è la cattedrale cattolica dell'arcidiocesi di Parigi.
In base alla Legge francese sulla separazione tra Stato e Chiesa del 1905, Notre-Dame è proprietà dello Stato francese, come tutte le altre cattedrali fatte costruire dal Regno di Francia, ma il suo utilizzo è assegnato alla Chiesa cattolica.[1]
Ubicata nella parte orientale dell'Île de la Cité, nel cuore della capitale francese, nella piazza omonima, Notre-Dame rappresenta una delle costruzioni gotiche più celebri del mondo ed uno dei monumenti più visitati di Parigi.

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Jardin du Luxembourg

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:27:05 -0800

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The Jardin du Luxembourg, or the Luxembourg Gardens, is the second largest public park in Paris[1] (224,500 m² (22.5 hectares) located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The park is the garden of the French Senate, which is itself housed in the Luxembourg Palace.
Il Giardino del Lussemburgo (in francese Jardin du Luxembourg, familiarmente soprannominato Luco) è un giardino pubblico, fondato nel 1612 da Maria de' Medici, di 224.500 m2 che si trova nel VI arrondissement di Parigi. È il giardino del Senato francese, che è ospitato nel Palazzo del Lussemburgo.
Sul piccolo stagno vengono effettuate regate di barche in miniatura. Il giardino contiene diverse sculture.
L'École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris e il Teatro dell'Odéon si trovano a fianco del Giardino del Lussemburgo.

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Place de la Concorde

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 08:26:52 -0800

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The Place de la Concorde (French pronunciation: [plas də la kɔ̃kɔʁd], is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring 8.64 hectares (21.35 acres) in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées.
The Place was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in 1755 as a moat-skirted octagon between the Champs-Élysées to the west and the Tuileries Gardens to the east. Decorated with statues and fountains, the area was named Place Louis XV to honor the king at that time. The square showcased an equestrian statue of the king, which had been commissioned in 1748 by the city of Paris, sculpted mostly by Edmé Bouchardon, and completed by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle after the death of Bouchardon. The stone is made of a combination of lime and blue stone. The chemical compounds have let it survive for so long under acid rain.
At the north end, two magnificent identical stone buildings were constructed. Separated by the rue Royale, these structures remain among the best examples of Louis XV style architecture. Initially, the eastern building served as the French Naval Ministry. Shortly after its construction, the western building became the opulent home of the Duc d'Aumont. It was later purchased by the Comte de Crillon, whose family resided there until 1907. The famous luxury Hôtel de Crillon, which currently occupies the building, took its name from its previous owners; it was the headquarters of the German High Command during World War II.
During the French Revolution the statue of Louis XV of France was torn down and the area renamed "Place de la Révolution". The new revolutionary government erected the guillotine in the square, and it was here that King Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793. Other important figures guillotined on the site, often in front of cheering crowds, were Queen Marie Antoinette, Princess Élisabeth of France, Charlotte Corday, Madame du Barry, Georges Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Antoine Lavoisier, Maximilien Robespierre, Louis de Saint-Just and Olympe de Gouge.
The guillotine was most active during the "Reign of Terror", in the summer of 1794, when in a single month more than 1,300 people were executed. A year later, when the revolution was taking a more moderate course, the guillotine was removed from the square.

The Fountain of River Commerce and Navigation, one of the two Fontaines de la Concorde (1840) on the Place de la Concorde. Behind: the Hôtel de Crillon; to the left: the embassy of the United States of America.

Execution of Louis XVI in the then Place de la Révolution. The empty pedestal in front of him had supported a statue of his grandfather, Louis XV, torn down during one of the many revolutionary riots.
The square was then renamed Place de la Concorde under the Directory as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation after the turmoil of the French Revolution. It underwent a series of name changes in the nineteenth century, but the city eventually settled on Place de la Concorde.

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Palais du Luxembourg

nobody@flickr.com (LasVegasInside) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:27:18 -0800

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The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced: [pa.lɛ dy lyk.sɑ̃.buːʁ]) in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, north of the Luxembourg Garden (French: Jardin du Luxembourg), is the seat of the French Senate.
The formal Luxembourg Garden (French: Jardin du Luxembourg) presents a 25-hectare green parterre of gravel and lawn populated with statues and provided with large basins of water where children sail model boats. In the southwest corner, there is an orchard of apple and pear trees and the théâtre des marionnettes (puppet theatre).

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