1st Day: Paris – the
Monmartre’s quart
Arrival in
Paris in the afternoon. Accommodation in a hotel. A walk at Montmartre, the
bohemian quart of artists such as Delacroix, Picasso, Modigliani, Van Gogh.
Originally it was a village of farmers, with vine cellars and wind mills, today
has kept buildings of stones with an atmosphere of the end of nineteenth
century. Dinner and overnight.
2nd Day: the modern and classic Paris
After the
breakfast we will go to the discover of the most modern part of Paris. L’Avenue
desChamps-Élysées, 1914 meters long. From
simple “fields” till the 1616 year, when Maria de’ Medici decided to create a
long tree-lined path, which have become one of the most famous boulevards in
the world. In the beginnings of Elisi Fields there is the Arch of Triumph, a monument wanted from Napoleon. It is 50 m high,
45 m large and 22 m deep. The inside walls are a display for the names of 660
French generals, those underlined are names of the ones that died in a fight. In
the base of the arch it was posted in 1920 year the Grave of Milite Ignoto and
one perennial flame, in the memory of those who died in the First World War and
were never identified. From the 1945 year, the grave is dedicated also to the
memory of the died ones in the Second World War.
The Eifel Tower, the symbol of Paris, its name from its creator
the Ingener Gustave Eiffel. 320
meters high, was built in less than 2 years (1887-1889) in the occasion of
“Exposition Universelle” to commemorate the centennial of the French
Revolution. The only material used for the building is iron, erect in form of
cross in more than 18.000 fixed pieces with around 5.000.000 bolts. The
imposing and strength of the materials make it weight around 10.000 tons. For
its maintenance served 50 tons of varnish every 7 years.
The Place
Trocadero with its 10.000 square meters of gardens, the statues and the
magical Varsavia Fountain with water falls that reach 12 m highness. Place
de la Concorde, refined with the
two fountains in the center and the obelisk Egyptian of Luxor. After a typical
Parisian lunch, with locales opened day and night, a visit of the most antique
and historic part of Paris: the clearly French atmosphere of the Latin quart,
with locales opened day and night full with student and professors of Sorbona.
The solemn Cathedral Notre-Dame, seriously damaged of the imposing fire from
the 15th of April 2019. The Lussemburgo Gardens, a splendid public
park of 224.500 square meters.
L’Île de la Cité, one of the two fluvial
island of Senna, Place Vendome defined the most elegant square of Europe
because of the shops of big brands. After dinner, an excursion by a boat on
Senna: an unforgettable experience without a doubt.
3rd Day:
Paris – Versailles – Louvre Museum
Versailles, a residence of an incomparable beauty, one of the most
beautiful masterpieces of the French art of XVII century. One of the most
suggestive halls of the residence is the Gallery of Mirrors, which shines in
the light reflected by its many mirrors. The Big Gallery shows in its richness the political, economical
and artistic success of France. Here in the 28th of June 1919 year
was signed the Versailles Treaty that put an end of the First War. After
the lunch a visit of the unmissable, majestic Louvre Museum, one real
temple of the art visited by 9 million people every year, the biggest museum in
the world.
On the end of this day
full of history, a dinner in a restaurant and one cross by bus to admire the
Paris’s glimpses “by-night” which owns the name “Ville Lumière”.
4th
Day: Paris – Italy
After the breakfast an
“aurevoir” to the city of Voltaire, Moliere, Victor Hugo, but also of the
photographer Elliott Erwitt and the sensual Brigitte Bardot.