Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d’Orsay is an art gallery located in Paris, which is dedicated to the visual arts of the 19th century. It occupies the old building of the Orsay train station.

The Musée d’Orsay preserves and exhibits the largest collection of Impressionist and Post- Impressionist paintings in the world as well as notable sets of Symbolist, Realist and academic painting.

The museum holds masterpieces of painting and sculpture such as Lunch on the Grass and Olympia by Édouard Manet, Dance at the Moulin de la Galette by Renoir, several essential works by Courbet (The Origin of the World, Burial at Ornans, The Painter’s Workshop) and even five paintingsfrom Monet’s Series des Cathedrals of Rouen.

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

The Cathedral of Notre Dame is a catholic cathedral in Paris, France. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, it is located on the small island of La Cité, surrounded by the waters of the River Seine. It is one of the most popular monuments in the French capital.

It is one of the most outstanding and oldest Gothic style buildings. Its construction began in the year 1163 and, by 1260, it was mostly completed. During the 1790s, after the French Revolution, after being used as a warehouse, in 1802, its use was returned to the Catholic Church thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte, who was crowned at Notre Dame two years later.

Sainte-Chapelle

The Holy Chapel, also called the royal chapel of the Île de la Cité, is a Gothic temple located on the Ile de la Cité, in the center of the city of Paris, France. It is considered one of the masterpieces of the radiant period of Gothic architecture. It was built to house the relics acquired by King Saint Louis of France.

The history of the chapel begins in 1241. when the crown of thorns, part of the cross, the iron of the Longinus spear, the sponge and other relics of the martyrdom of Jesus Christ were brought to France from Syria and Constantinople, acquired by King Louis IX from Baudouin II, the last Latin emperor of Constantinople.

Palais Garnier

The Opera Garnier, also known as Palais Garnier or Paris Opera, is one of the most characteristic buildings of the 19th Arrondissement of Paris and the urban landscape of the French capital. Napoleon III ordered its construction to thea architect Charles Garnie.

Since its inauguration in 1875., the opera was officially called the National Academy of Music-Opera House. It retained its title until 1978., when it was renamed the National Opera House in Paris. In 1989. the Opera Company moved its headquarters to the newly built Bastille Theater and its old headquarters was renamed the Palais Garnier, where the National Academy of Music remains.

Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower, initially called Tour de 300 mètres (tower 300 m), is a structure of iron puddling designed by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, endowed with its final appearance by architect Stephen Sauvestre and built by the French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel and his collaborators for the Universal Exposition of 1889 in Paris.

Located at the end of the Champ de Mars on the banks of the River Seine, this Parisian monument, a symbol of France and its capital, is the tallest structure in the city and the most visited monument in the world, with 7.1 million tourists every year. At a height of 300 meters, later extended with an antenna to 324 meters, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world for 41 years.