The Rough Guide to Paris
Language: English
Pages: 440
ISBN: 184836475X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Rough Guide to Paris is the ultimate insider's guidebook to Europe's most elegant and romantic city. Inspirational photography, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guides, and detailed, full-color maps help you get the most out of a visit to Paris — whether that means climbing the Eiffel Tower and boating on the Seine or visits to offbeat art galleries and hidden-away gardens.
Frank, incisive reviews take you straight to the best of the city's cafés, restaurants, and nightlife venues, from the ultra-stylish to the magnificently traditional, while tell-it-like-it-is listings help you find the right accommodation for your budget, including boutique design hotels on the Left Bank, grand classics on the Right, or just-perfect budget hideaways.
Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Paris, the perfect companion for a city break or a longer stay.
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theatre and other events. The 15e 11 Though it’s the largest and most populous of them all, the quinzième (15e) arrondissement falls off the agenda for most visitors as it lacks even a single important building or monument. Its most distinctive features, in fact, are an odd island walkway in the middle of the Seine, the Allée des Cygnes, and a bristle of miniature skyscrapers on the riverbank, the shabby remainder of a 1960s and 1970s development known as the Front de Seine. There’s little
dancers from the Paris ballet in honour of the first woman to dance on pointe. A large Jewish section lies by the east wall. The 9e Immediately south of Montmartre, the 9e (neuvième) arrondissement isn’t much visited by tourists. Yet lurking inside the limits of the broad east–west boulevards that frame it is a handsome, distinctly urban residential district with a powerful nineteenth-century atmosphere, especially around place St-Georges. The once-seedy northern fringe has now been rebranded as
portraitists, among them Joshua Reynolds. Italian Renaissance paintings Leading off the music gallery are the rooms in which the couple displayed their early Renaissance Italian collection. The first, a sculpture gallery, its walls covered in low-relief sculpture, includes three bronzes by Donatello. The Florentine room next door includes a wonderful, brightly coloured Saint George Slaying the Dragon (1440) by Paolo Uccello, a Botticelli Virgin and Child (1470) depicted with touching fragility,
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Nationale stands the Bourse, the Paris stock exchange, an imposing Neoclassical edifice built under Napoleon in 1808 and enlarged in 1903 with the addition of two side wings. With trading taking place online these days, the building is now chiefly used for conferences and trade fairs, and there are plans to open a restaurant. Overshadowing the Bourse from the south is the antennae-topped building of AFP, the French news agency. Rue Réaumur, running east from here, used to be the Fleet Street of