Conclusion

One day in the future i would love to find myself in Paris and i would love to visit all of these sites. I would love to see the Eiffel tower and the Louvre museum. There are many great paintings there like the Mona Lisa. The Eiffel Tower is a place you most definitely have to go visit. I'm ecstatic that i learned more about these places because it gives me more background whenever i plan to find myself in Paris 

Le Musee d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. Le Musee d'Orsay is  housed in a grand railway staion which was built in 1900.The railway was designed by Eugene Henard. The museum was opened on November 1986. Le Musee d'Orsay was put in place for the Universal Exhibition of 19

Address: 1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France

Founded: 1986, Paris, France

Architectural style: Beaux-Arts architecture

Founders: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, François Mitterrand

Architects: Gae Aulenti, Victor Laloux, Émile Bénard

Le Palais de Versailles

Les Palais de Versailles was built from 1682 until 1790 and served as a hunting lodge and the official residence of the Kings. Le Palais de Versailles was built by Louis XIV.

Les Invalides

Address: 129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France

Architectural style: French Baroque architecture
Burials: Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon II,
Architects: Jules Hardouin Mansart, Libéral Bruant

Les Invalides is known as a hotel founded by Louis XIV in 1671. The construction of Les Invalides took about three years from 1676 to 1679. The architect was Liberal Bruant and was built by Jules Hardouin Mansart

la basilique du sacre coeur

La Basilique du Sacre Coeur is a Roman Catholic Church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The construction began in 1875 and was completed in 1914. Paul Abadie was the architect and he designed the building in a Romanesque- Byzantine style, it was a place for prayer ,La Basilique du Sacre Coeur is 83 meters high from the highest dome.

La Conciergerie

The Conciergerie  is a former prison in Paris, France. It was part of the former royal palace, the Palais de la Cité, which consisted of the Conciergerie, Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine at a number of locations around Paris.La Conciergerie was built in the early fourteenth centurey under the rule of Phillippe le Bel. It was originally built to be Philips the Fair palace but then was converted into a prison. La Conciergerie is 85 meters high and 27.5 meters long. 

la grande arche

Address: 1 Parvis de la Défense, 92044 Puteaux, France

Opened: July 1989

Architectural style: Modern architecture

Height: 364' (111 m) 

Architects: Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Paul Andreu, Erik Reitzel 

 Built towards the end of the 20th century, the arch is a modern and prominent feature in Paris. The arch also marks the end of the Voie de Triumphe.The aim of the projects was to promote culture and revitalize the city. The work was commissioned under the then president François Mitterrand. The Grands Projets included not just the Grande Arche de la Défense but the pyramid found at the Louvre, the national library and the Bastille Opera.Sprecklesen’s winning idea for the landmark was a huge and modernistic arch that resembled a hollow cube of gigantic proportions. It took five years to complete the arch, with construction beginning in 1984 and being completed in 1989. 

l'opera garnier

Architectural styles: Baroque Revival architecture, Beaux-Arts architecture, Second Empire architecture

Architect: Charles Garnier

The Palais Garnier is a 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. It was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier in recognition of its luxury, and its architect, Charles Garnier. The theatre is also often referred to as the Opéra Garnier and historically was known as the Opéra de Paris or simply the Opéra. The Palais Garnier is probably the most famous opera house in the world . 

le centre pompidou

Address: Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France

Area: 26 acres (10 ha)

Opened: 1977

Architecture firm: Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers

Architects: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Peter Rice, Mike Davies

Architectural styles: Postmodern architecture, Brutalist architecture, High-tech architecture

Function: Library, Research institute, Museum

The Centre Pompidou is has  one of the world's most important museums of modern art, the MNAM, but it also contains a very popular library, a bookshop, a movie theater and a panoramic terrace. It consists  of more things then just the museum. 

le musee du louvre

Address: 75001 Paris, France

Established: 1792

One of the world's top art museum, the Louvre is the most visited with 9.2 million visitors every year.

Housed in the former Palace of the French Kings, the Louvre displays the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci and many other first class paintings from Italy, France, Flanders, Netherlands and England.The Louvre, which is along the banks of the Seine River in Paris, is the world's largest museum and one of the most well-known museums in the world.The Louvre's permanent art collection spans a massive space nearly 15 acres. Within the museum, visitors will find 35,000 works of art divided into eight departments: the Near Eastern Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Islamic Art, Sculptures, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Prints and Drawings.

L'arc de Triomphe

Address: Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France

Construction started: August 15, 1806

Opened: 1836

Architectural style: Neoclassical architecture

Height: 164' (50 m)

Owner: Centre des monuments nationaux

Architects: Jean Chalgrin, Guillaume-Abel Blouet, Jean-Nicolas Huyot, Jean-Arnaud Raymond, Louis-Robert Goust

The construction was ordered by Napoleon , The french Emperor. Napoleon wanted to honor the french army at the time.The Arc de Triomphe costed 9.3 millions French francs, a gigantic amount of money at that time The construction of Arc de Triomphe was completed in 1836, was long after Napoleon's death in 1821.

Le Cathedrale Notre Dame

Address: 6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France
Construction started: 1163
Opened: 1345
Architectural style: French Gothic architecture

Notre Dame is 130 meters long, 48 meters wide, 35 meters high
Construction began in 1163, and Notre-Dame would be completed some 100 years later, in 1272. The Cathedral was built for prayer and a house of God.Appointed bishop of Paris in 1160, Maurice de Sully decided to give the capital a cathedral worthy of France’s largest city.Notre Dame is not just one of the greatest Paris monuments. It is above all a catholic church, a place of christian worship

La Tour Eiffel

Address : champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, Francecostrction started : January 28, 1887Floors:  3Height : 986' (301 m)Architect: Stephen SauvestreArchitecture firms: Barbier, Benard and Turenne, Eiffel & Cie
Engineers: Maurice Koechlin, Gustave Eiffel, Émile Nouguier

It is named after Gustave Eiffel, His company was in charge of the project.The Eiffel Tower is 320 metres (1050 feet) in height and was the tallest man made structure in the world for 41 years before being surpassed by the Chrysler Building in New York.The Eiffel Tower is made of iron and weighs around 10,000 tons. .

Millions of people climb the Eiffel Tower every year and it has had over 250 million visitors since its opening.Being so popular, the Eiffel Tower design has been recreated around the world, including the half scale replica at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Nevada, USA and the full scale Tokyo Tower in Japan.Not everyone liked the Eiffel Tower when it was first built, with many criticizing its bold design.The French name for the Eiffel Tower is La Tour Eiffel, it also has the nickname La dame de fer which means the iron lady.