Paris Monuments

Paris Monuments May 23, 2015 tina

Some buildings in Paris are not just beautiful, they also represents historical and memorable events and moments in France history.

Here are a list of seven monuments in Paris you can visit. Not only admiring their architecture beauty or enjoying the surrounding view, you can also learn a bit of France history from each of them. Who says that you cannot get anything new while you are vacationing?

Notre Dame

The Notre Dame Cathedral is the most famous church in France. It was built out of the order of Bishop Sully, the Paris archdiocese bishop, who wanted a new cathedral to more represent the glorious Paris. The cathedral was started to be built in 1163 and completed almost 80 years after that in 1240.

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Notre Dame de Paris - Notre Dame Cathedral

Places to Visit in Paris May 9, 2015 tina

Notre Dame de Paris — *Notre Dame* de Paris

Back then at school, we read about the Hunchback of Notre Dame. In 1996, Disney made one movie adaptation out of the famous novel and became a hit. Soon, people all over the world got familiar with the term, including you. But do you know what Notre Dame really is beside just a famous church in Paris?

As everyone may have known, Notre Dame is a church. The English translation of its name is Our Lady, which refers to Maria, the mother of Jesus. But it is not an ordinary church, it is a Roman Catholic cathedral. Cathedral is a church which has the cathedra, the throne of an archbishop, in it. In the case of Notre Dame, it is the chair of Paris Archbishop who is in charge of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris. It has a gothic architecture style which some consider as the best in France and Europe.

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