Art and poetry contaminate the visitors of Paris. The city, with more than ten million residents, is the political and intellectual capital of France.

Paris also enchants for its buildings. The Eiffel Tower, for example, is a revolutionary architecture build by Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) for the Universal Exhibition of 1889.

Avenue des Champs Élysées from the Arc of the Triumph, Paris.

La Conciergerie and River Seine. La Conciergerie was built as a great royal palace in the 14th century, it was later turned into a prison.

Avenue des Champs Élysées, in the beginning of the 20th century.

Eiffel Tower

Outdoor Café in Paris.

The Arc of the Triumph, in Paris.

Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, the Gothic cathedral of the Middle Ages, completed by 1250.

Le Moulin Rouge, Pigalle district, in Paris. It was established in 1889 as a dance hall.

Pictures of Paris

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