Weddings trips Paris
Paris, the capital city of Romance and also known as the city of lights, is considered to be one of the world’s most passionate destinations and hundreds of thousands of couples are found to be proposing marriage at the top of Eiffel Tower every year. Could there possibly be a more romantic location than Paris? With Cartier & Tiffanys at your doorstep, engagement and wedding rings can be made to order. With renowned luxury goods suppliers, Louis Vuitton, having its huge, flagship store on the corner of Champs-Elysees and Avenue George V, you can even buy beautiful luggage for your honeymoon!
Proposals of marriage on top of the Eiffel Tower, lit up at night by its thousands of twinkling fairy lights….choosing rings at Tiffanys….exchanging vows on the edge of the beautiful, winding River Seine…Paris really is a dream destination for all brides and grooms-to-be. During spring and summer, you can see countless just-married couples posing for photographs in front of the Eiffel Tower with a horse-carriage waiting to transport them to their wedding reception.:: History
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:: Paris Hotels
Paris, the city of romance, also known as the city of lights, is the epitome of architectural beauty, artistic expression and a gourmet's delight. Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements (districts) and each possesses a distinct style and flavour of its own. From the hustle and bustle of street entertainers and artists in Montmartre and Sacre Coeur to the chic and fashionable Latin Quarter to the upmarket Right Bank with the Louvre and its most famous occupant, the Mona Lisa, you'll be spoilt for choice as to where to stay during your trip.
Paris is choc full with some of the most amazingly beautiful and luxurious hotels in the world. From the renowned Ritz Hotel where many a celebrity has stayed - the most famous of all being Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed to the jaw-dropping luxury of the Four Seasons on Avenue George V, the impeccable Parisien high standards of service will leave a long-lasting impression.
Just as beautiful and in a prime location just off the Champs-Elysees (and, for the discerning shopper, literally next door to the flagship store of Louis Vuitton.) is the 4 star boutique hotel, Francois Premier. With its olde worlde charm of yesteryear and impressive service, this hotel receives a high number of repeat guests who can expect to be warmly greeted by the impeccable Monsieur Lagarrigue.
Other recommended hotels in Paris include Le Meridien Etoile, a deluxe hotel located just a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower, the Luxembourg Gardens and Saint-Germain. Its sister hotel, Le Meridien Montparnasse, offers all the facilities of an international first-class hotel. Other good quality and centrally based accommodations include the Hilton Hotel on Avenue Suffren (ask for rooms with a balcony overlooking the Eiffel Tower - so close, you feel you can touch it!)
:: Shopping in Paris, France - 1
| Paris is a superb place to shop, whether you're someone who can afford an original Cartier diamond bracelet or you're an impoverished leche-vitrine (literally 'window licker'). From the ultra-chic couture houses of ave Montaigne to the flea-market bargains at Saint Ouen, from the vast underground shopping centre at Les Halles to the cubbyhole boutiques of the Marais, Paris is a city that knows how to make it, present it and charge for it. | ||
Some of Paris' department stores are Art Nouveau extravaganzas, including Au Bon Marche, while others offer such things as fabulous views out over the rooftops of the city. But all offer quality and very stylish items that will go down a treat at home. Certain streets in Paris still specialise in certain products. Rue du Pont Louis Philippe, 4e (metro Pont Marie), for example, has all manner of paper goods and stationery, while rue de Paradis, 10e (metro Château d'Eau), is famed for its crystal, glass and tableware shops. If you're in the market for a sewing machine, turn south from rue de Paradis onto rue Martel - it's chock-a-block with the things. In the nearby passage de l'Industrie, shops specialise in equipment and tools for coiffeurs (hairdressers). Walk along rue Victor Masse, 9e, and you'll see more musical instruments than you thought existed. The shops on rue Drouot in the 9e sell almost nothing but old postage stamps. | ||
Paris has everything for sale but stick to the tried and the true: fashion, jewellery, fine food and wine, professional kitchenware, quality gifts and souvenirs. Paris' flea markets are well-and-truly picked over but are still among the largest in the world and offer a great way to spend a weekend morning. Opening hours in Paris are notoriously anarchic, with each store setting its own hours according to some ancient black art. Most stores will be open at least 10am to 6pm five days a week (including Saturday), but they may open earlier, close later, close for lunch (usually to 2.30pm) or for a full or half-day on Monday or Tuesday. Many larger stores also have a nocturne - one late night (usually to 10pm) a week. |
:: Shopping in Paris, France - 2
| The high-end rue de Seine, rue Jacob and rue du Bac near the Saint-Germain des Pres church are specialized in art and antiques as is the Carré Rive Gauche near the Orsay museum. The rue de Rome near the Saint-Lazare train station is monopolizing the music instruments trade, both old and new. If you are looking for atmosphere, go to one of the old and typical market streets of Paris (for food) or to the flea market (for everything else). Or just walk along the Seine river left banks and shop at the "Bouquinistes" And, don't forget the large shopping centers near-by Paris where many of the 10 million Parisians do their weekly shopping. Less romantic, they sell everything and include an hypermarket like Auchan selling at discount prices. Also there is specialized Quai des Marques clothes discount shopping center in Ile Saint-Denis near Paris. Below is list of Paris Shops :- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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:: Hidden Treasure
Baron Haussmann
Few town planners anywhere in the world have had as great an impact on the city of their birth as Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809-91) had on Paris. As prefect of the Seine département under Napoleon III for 17 years, Haussman and his staff of architects and engineers completely rebuilt huge swathes of Paris. He is best known - and most bitterly attacked - for having demolished much of medieval Paris, replacing the chaotic narrow streets, which were easy to barricade in an uprising, with the handsome, arrow-straight thoroughfares for which the city is so famous. He also revolutionised Paris' water supply and sewerage systems and laid out many of the city's loveliest parks, including large areas of the Bois de Boulogne, 16e, and the Bois de Vincennes, 12e.
In Defence of Paris
La Defense is named after La Défense de Paris, a sculpture erected here in 1883 to commemorate the defence of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1. Removed in 1971 to facilitate construction work, it was placed on a round pedestal just west of the Agam fountain in 1983. Many people don't like the name La Défense, which sounds rather militaristic, and it has caused some peculiar misunderstandings over the years. A high-ranking official of the authority that manages the project was once denied entry into Egypt because his passport indicated he was the 'managing director of La Défense', which Egyptian officials apparently assumed was part of France's military-industrial complex. And a visiting Soviet general once expressed admiration at how well the area's military installations had been camouflaged!
Notre Dame's Kestrels
Birdwatchers estimate that about 40 pairs of kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) currently nest in Paris, preferring tall old structures like the towers at Notre Dame. Four or five pairs of kestrels regularly breed in niches and cavities high up in the cathedral, and once a year (usually in late June) local ornithologists set up a public kestrel-watching station behind the cathedral, with telescopes and even a camera transmitting close-up pictures of one of the kestrels' nesting sites. The birds form their partnerships in February, eggs are laid in April, the kestrel chicks hatch in May and are ready to depart by early July. In late June, birdwatchers may spot the adult kestrels returning to their young with a tasty mouse or sparrow. Unfortunately, Paris' pigeons - those dirty flying rats - are too large for a kestrel chick to handle.
Chateau de Whipped Cream
Like every self-respecting French chateau in the 18th century, the one at Chantilly had its own hamlet complete with laitier (dairy) where the lady of the household and her guests could play at being milkmaids, as Marie-Antoinette did at Versailles. But the cows at Chantilly's dairy took their job rather more seriously than most of their fellow bovine actors at the other faux dairies, and news of the sweet cream served at the hamlet's teas became the talk (and envy) of aristocratic Europe. The future Habsburg Emperor Joseph II visited this temple de marbre (marble temple) incognito to try it in 1777, and when the Baroness of Oberkirch tasted the goods she cried: 'Never have I eaten such good cream, so appetising, so well prepared'. Not to be outdone, an equally well heeled chateau to the south has lent its name to another sweet dairy product. Take some fromage frais, fold in Chantilly and - voila! - you've got Fontainebleau, a triple-cream cheese.
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