Assalamualaikum..
Pada kali ini, aku ingin mengabadikan gambar-gambar semasa percutianku di kota Paris pada tahun 2008, tapi maaflah ye.. walaupun gambar ku ada di sini, tetapi nampaknya tak 'bermuka' kerana tika itu aku masih belum berhijab lagi... Apa-apa pun kita tengok je lah gambar-gambar yang menarik yang sempat ku snap tika di sana :))
Aku sampai ke Paris dengan menaiki train dari Geneva, Switzerland. Inilah train station nya... sangat besar dan moden, Gare De Lyon.. berpintal plak lidah ku nak menyebutnya :)
Paris-Gare de Lyon (or Gare de Lyon) is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It handles about 90,000,000 passengers every year, making it the third busiest station of France and one of the busiest of Europe. It is the northern terminus of the Paris–Marseille railway. It is named after the city of Lyon, a stop for many long-distance trains departing here, most en route to the south of France. The station is located in the XIIe arrondissement, on the north bank of the river Seine, in the east of Paris.
The station is served by high-speed TGV trains to south and eastern France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain. The station also hosts regional trains and the RER and also by the Gare de Lyon metro station.
From Gare de Lyon train services depart to major French cities such as: Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Montpellier, Perpignan, Dijon, Besançon, Mulhouse, Grenoble and a number of destinations in the Alps.
International services operate to Italy: Turin, Milan and Venice, Switzerland: Geneva, Zurich, Bern, Interlaken, Lausanne and Brig, Germany Freiburg im Brisgau and Spain: Barcelona.
Pemandangan dari luar station, dengan clock tower
PARIS
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It is situated on the Seine River, in the north of the country, at the heart of the Île-de-France region.
Centuries of cultural and political development have brought Paris a variety of museums, theatres, monuments and architectural styles. Many of its masterpieces such as the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe are iconic buildings, especially its internationally recognized symbol, the Eiffel Tower. Long regarded as an international centre for the arts, works by history's most famous painters can be found in the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay and its many other museums and galleries. Paris is a global hub of fashion and has been referred to as the "international capital of style", noted for its haute couture tailoring, its high-end boutiques, and the twice-yearly Paris Fashion Week. It is world renowned for its haute cuisine, attracting many of the world's leading chefs.
Ini ialah hotel penginapan ku.. COMFORT INN...
terletak di tengah bandar... cekai je kan? hmmm.. kalau tak silap ku, harga 1 malam utk menginap di sini ialah dalam euro80 = RM352 yang aku telah buat booking dari KL melalui online. hmmm... carpet dalam bilik pulak berbau hapak dan hotel ini hanya menyajikan 'cold breakfast' saja... sabor je lah.. dan aku terpaksa menginap di situ selama 4 hari... Nak pergi sangat Paris kan? ambik kou...
Jom ikut jalan-jalan...
Aku begitu suka melihat keunikan ukiran-ukiran pada bangunannya...
Eiffel Tower
...lambang kemegahan kota Paris!
The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair.
The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years, until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930. Because of the addition of the antenna atop the Eiffel Tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by 5.2 metres (17 ft). Not including broadcast antennae, it is the second-tallest structure in France, after the Millau Viaduct.
The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second. The third level observatory's upper platform is 276 m (906 ft) above the ground, the highest accessible to the public in the European Union. Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift (elevator) to the first and second levels. The climb from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. Although there are stairs to the third and highest level, these are usually closed to the public and it is generally only accessible by lift.
Aku tak berkesempatan untuk naik ke atas waktu itu kerana queue nya terlampau panjang...
Notre Dame de Paris
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The western facade illuminated at night The spire and east side of the cathedral
Notre-Dame de Paris; French for "Our Lady of Paris", also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a historic Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. The naturalism of its sculptures and stained glass are in contrast with earlier Romanesque architecture.
As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame is the parish that contains the cathedra, or official chair, of the archbishop of Paris, currently Cardinal André Vingt-Trois. The cathedral treasury is notable for its reliquary which houses some of Catholicism's most important first-class relics including the purported Crown of Thorns, a fragment of the True Cross, and one of the Holy Nails.
In the 1790s, Notre-Dame suffered desecration during the radical phase of the French Revolution when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. An extensive restoration supervised by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc began in 1845. A project of further restoration and maintenance began in 1991.
MUSEE D'ORSAY
The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay.
Seine River
The river flows more than 480 miles through France and passes through the heart of the city. Along these banks you will see monuments such as the the Musee d’Orsay, the Eiffel Tower, the Hotel des Invalides, the Louvre, Grand Palais and the Concorde and of course in the middle of the Seine river on the Ile de la Cité you will see Notre Dame Cathedral.
Historical trivia:
* It is said that Joan of Arc’s ashes were thrown into the Seine.
* It is also said that Napoleon had expressed in his will that he wanted to be buried on the banks of the river.
The river flows more than 480 miles through France and passes through the heart of the city. Along these banks you will see monuments such as the the Musee d’Orsay, the Eiffel Tower, the Hotel des Invalides, the Louvre, Grand Palais and the Concorde and of course in the middle of the Seine river on the Ile de la Cité you will see Notre Dame Cathedral.
Historical trivia:
* It is said that Joan of Arc’s ashes were thrown into the Seine.
* It is also said that Napoleon had expressed in his will that he wanted to be buried on the banks of the river.
Musée du Louvre
Di sinilah letaknya portrait terkenal MonaLisa yang dilukis oleh Leonardo da Vinci.
The Louvre or Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre) is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet). With more than 9.7 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum.
Louvre Pyramid
The large glass pyramid seen at night
The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989, it has become a landmark of the city of Paris.
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe 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. It should not be confused with 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. Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus. The Arc de Triomphe is built on such a large scale 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.
It was the tallest triumphal arch in existence until the completion of the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City in 1938, which is 67 metres (220 ft) high. However, the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982, is modelled on the Arc de Triomphe although slightly taller at 60 m (197 ft).
The Arc is located on the right bank of the Seine at the centre of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues.
Touch dalam petak tu, muzik pun berbunyi otomatik...
Apa yang dapat ku lihat sepanjang beberapa hari berada di kota Paris ini ialah keadaannya yang begitu sibuk sama seperti di KL ni... juga memang penuh dengan butik-butik jenama terkenal yang hanya ku mampu jeling-jeling aje dari luar, tak berani masuk pun :))
Komunikasi agak susah di sini kerana mereka hanya nak bertutur dalam bahasa Perancis saja. Aku dah cuba beberapa kali untuk berkomunikasi dengan mereka, namun agak hampa..kerana mereka bolayan dengan bahasa Inggeris ku... kadang-kadang terpaksa aku menggunakan 'sign language' saja...
Masa untuk kembali ke tanah air, tambang teksi ke airport ialah €50 lebih kurang RM250 tuuu...
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