Johan's Trip to Paris.

• The Château de Versailleshas a lot of space it has around 17 acres of land.
• The Chateau is a symbol of absolute monarchy in France due to the small period that the Kingdom of France was ruled from its walls 1682 - 1789.
• Louis XIV, the king of France in 1682 decided to move his household to the small village of Versailles from the former royal abode called the Louvre in the heart of Palace
• The Chateau in Versailles was the Kings' home until the French revolution forced the king to move back to his palace.

Sacré-Cœur

• The top of the dome is open to the public, and is the second-highest point in Paris after the Eiffel Tower.
• ‘Sacré-Cœur’ means ‘Sacred-Heart’ in English and is a reference to the heart of Jesus.
• Welcoming more than 11.5 million visitors each year, the Sacré-Cœur basilica is France’s second most visited church after Notre-Dame cathedral

Arc de Triomphe

• The triumphal arch is in honor of those who fought for France, in particular, those who fought during the Napoleonic Wars.
• Engraved on the inside and at the top of the arch are all of the names of the generals and wars fought.
• The Arc de Triomphe costed 9.3 millions French francs, a huge amount of money at that time.

Cathédrale Notre Dame

• The bell in the south tower weighs 13 tons.
• It was desighned in the Gothic fashion and built between the 12th and 14th centurie.
• The notre dame took around 107 year to build

Eiffel Tour

Musée du Louvre

• ⦁ The Eiffel Tower was not going to be permanent it was going to be demolished in 1909, but was saved because it was repurposed as a giant radio antenna.
• The Eiffel Tower was originally intended for Barcelona, Spain, but the project was rejected.
• The paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs as much as 10 elephants.
• If the eiffel tower today was built today, it would cost about US$31 million.
• The Eiffel Tower was almost temporarily relocated to Canada in 1967.

Bibliothèque nationale de France

On August 10, 1793, the Musée du Louvre opened its doors to the public.

• For more than 600 years, the Louvre had been a symbol of the wealth, power and decadence of the French monarchy
• Today it is one of the world’s largest museums (with 70,000 pieces of art spread across more than 650,000 square feet of gallery space)
• It takes 2,000 employees to maintain the museum and its artwork for the Louvre’s 8.8 million annual visitors. The famous museum is about to turn 220 years old

There are building all shaped like open books.

• The BnF’s collections are very unique 14 million books and printed documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, maps an1,600,000 documents
• There are 320,000 books36,000 maps19,462 manuscripts410,000 images830,000 newspapers and magazine 7,000 sheets of musicd plans
• The National Library of France was founded at the Louvre by Charles V in 1368. It grew under Louis XIV and opened to the public in 1692.

My Hotel

My Flight

Once I got off the plane i went to my hotel for my 5 days trip I would be staying at the Hotel de Paris Monte-Carloit looked really nice. I was so exciting to be staying here I am going to love it here.

Musée d'Orsay

Château de Versailles

• With government funds, the building was restored and remodeled in the 1980s and opened in 1986 as a museum with many mid- and late 19th-century French painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts.
• It is a unique museum because it used to be used as railway train station in the 1898 for the Universal Exposition.
• Around 3 million visitors a year come to the Orsay Museum

I booked a $3,240 flight from JFK airport to Charles De Gaulle Airplane long, I left the airport at 3:00 pm and arrived in Paris at 10:10am, it was a 7hr 10min non stop flight. I am so happy to finally be in Paris France.

Sainte-Chapelle

Budget:5,100.00

Tour: 2,050.00

Hotel 2,038.00

Food 600.00

Total:4,688

Catacombs

The first place I went to was the Sainte-Chapelle the Sainte-Chapelle was founded by King Louis IX of France,

• Constructed it as a chapel for the royal palace and to hold precious relics.
• The palace itself has otherwise has disappeared, leaving the Sainte-Chapelle all but surrounded by the Palais de Justice.
• During the French Revolution, the chapel was converted to an administrative office, and the windows were covered by enormous filing cabinets.

• The catacombs holds the remains of around six million people.
• A deadly disease spreaded caused many perople to die
• Since theres not enough room in cemeteries they crated the catacombs for the people that were rapidly dying to hold the remains

Johan's Trip To Paris