Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Country of Love

Never Been to France? Let me guide you and love one to France MOST VISITED PLACE.

FIRST IS Euro Disneyland, Paris WITH 14.5 million visitors.

Disneyland Paris, also known as Euro Disney, is a theme park & resort in Marne-la-Vallée, in the eastern of Paris, France. The theme park is located 20 miles from the center of Paris.  As the only Disneyland theme park in Europe it attracts visitors from all over France, as well as the rest of the world. Disneyland Paris is by far the most popular tourist attraction in France.

SECOND IS The Louvre, Paris WITH 8.3 million visitors.

The Louvre  is one of the world’s largest museums. The tourist attraction is the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over here.

THIRD IS The Eiffel Tower Paris WITH 6.8 million visitors.

 The iron lattice tower, nicknamed “La dame de fer” or “the iron woman”, was built in 1889. It is located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, and has become both a global icon of France.The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris, is the single most visited paid monument in the world with 6.8 million visitors a year.

FOURTH IS The Georges Pompidou centre and museum of art, Paris WITH 5.5 million visitors.

The Pompidou Centre is a complex build in the Beaubourg area of Paris, designed in the style of high-tech architecture. Inside it is the Bibliothèque publique d’information, a vast public library, the Musée National d’Art Moderne which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. It is named after Georges Pompidou, the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who decided its creation, and was officially opened on 31 January 1977, since when it has received over 150 million visitors.

FIFTH IS Château de Versailles, near Paris WITH 5.3 million visitors.

The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the monarchy of the Ancien Régime. It is widely considered to be one of the most beautiful palaces in the world.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST IS Orsay museum of the 19th century Paris WITH 3.2 million visitors.

The Musée d’Orsay is a museum in Paris, France. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography by such painters such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin and Van Gogh. 

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