Paris - the city of art!!

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Paris has so many beautiful sights. We took a coach tour to see many of them.
We went to the base of the Eiffel tower, took the metro, shopped on the Champs d’Elysees, ate pizza at a café, and visited the outside of the Louvre. We were in Paris for 5 hours...it was extremely crowded and not that clean!

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Photos

Le Tour Eiffel
Note the cloudy day...looks nasty but it was a good break from all the sun and heat from the last 2 weeks. The Eiffel Tower was built in 1887 and is painted every 7 years. It has been yellow, brown and grey. The tower has 3 levels. It is 300 steps to the first level!!

L'arc de triomphe
This famous arch was begun by Napoleon to welcome his soldiers back from war. You can only get to the arch by underground tunnel as it is situated in the centre of the busiest round about in the world!

Les fontaines
(Gardens of the Trocadero) have the Fountains of Warsaw. These fountains are supposed to be spectacular at night!!

Inverted Pyramid
The inverted pyramid is found in an underground mall below the pyramid at the Louvre museum.

Le sculpture
There are two sculptured blocks at the fountains of Trocadero.
One of them is "Jeunesse" ("Youth"), by Pierre Poisson, and "Joie de Vivre" ("Joy of Life"), by Léon Drivier.