Traveling to Lose the Misery

The Gare d’Austerlitz is located on the left bank of the Seine in the 13th Arrondissement. It is said that the station be one of the most interesting of all Paris. Like the other stations of the French capital is also the Gare d’Austerlitz train station, a head. He shares the incoming routes from the south west of the city with the Gare Montparnasse.
Although the Gare d’Austerlitz since the introduction of fast trains in France has had to make many connections to the Montparnasse train station, but still has a Pasagierzahl of around 70,000 per day. This figure combines both occupational and commuting distance travelers from France and Spain. (more…)

The National du Moyen Âge Museum is one of the most important historical museums in Europe. It is on the 5th Arrondissement, near the Sorbonne University, the Latin Quarter district. Focus of the exhibition is the art of the Middle Ages. The museum is housed in the Hôtel de Cluny, which as a historical building also still holds one or two surprises.
The  national du Moyen Âge Museum holds some of the most impressive traditions of the Middle Ages. (more…)

Paris and all the treasures of his era are worth the trip. While most art museums dominate the roads around the Eiffel Tower, but it is mainly only the sites of Paris history, which radiate an unexpectedly exciting attraction for holidaymakers and tourists. Including the Musée Carnavalet belongs to the creme de la creme of this historic venues.
The Carnavalet Museum has been called “Musée de l’Histoire de Paris” is an important witness of the nobility before the Revolution dominated society. The name of the museum is derived from a former owner, Madame de Kernevenoy. The building already constructed 1548th Some 100 years (more…)

One of the most magnificent buildings of Paris, before the walls of the city. The magnificent and mighty Palace of Versailles is especially in the summer to the most popular places for tourists in the French capital. Versailles was for centuries the symbol of the wasteful and exorbitant power of the kings of France, which led in 1789, not least the French Revolution.
Actually it was the small village of Versailles au Val de Galie a little soulful place, Away from the big city of Paris. The village was surrounded by thick forests and well bewilderten. Perhaps this was also the bone of contention, so the king Louis XIII. 1631 a small hunting lodge was built. The Sun King Louis XIV was staying at a young age for hunting in Versailles, which he would shape a few years later prevail. In 1661, he himself should be king in France and thus also the ruler over the lands and the castle of Verseilles. To show who the leaders in the country, Louis Versailles rebuilt as fine as before no one else could (more…)

Protrudes from the sea of the venerable Paris in the 15th District of the Tour Montparnasse skyscraper tower over all 56 floors of the city. One of the most popular landmarks and also popular viewing platform in the south of the metropolis enjoys great popularity, not all French. Nevertheless, including the Tower of Montparnasse to a real sightseeing tour of Paris.
Although the Tour Montparnasse towers above all as a black giant, he has 59 storeys and a height of 210 meters is not the tallest structure in Paris. This track still holds the undisputed favorite of all tourist landmark, the Eiffel tower, whose steel skeleton towers almost 350 feet above the city. Nevertheless, the Tour Montparnasse an imposing figure. From the 56th Floor has a free view over the city. Especially the Eiffel Tower comes off the roof of the Montparnasse Tower very nicely. In a few seconds, a high-speed elevator carries visitors to the upper floors of the tower. The ride is only just under 38 seconds. Here, a chewing gum helps fight the rapid pressure drop. The whistling in the ear is then replaced by the whistling of the wind on the visitors’ platform. In addition to Parisian city air can also be food and drinks in a restaurant on the roof of the Tour Montparnasse enjoy over the rooftops of Paris. (more…)

Of all the universities in the world, the Sorbonne in Paris enjoys a special position. Famous students you professors, an impressive history and unique architecture make the Sorbonne, one of the most impressive schools in France. In Europe, the University of Paris is considered a central hub of the humanities and multicultural meeting place for young people.
Its beginnings took the Sorbonne under its namesake, the Canon Robert de Sorbon. He founded already 123, a college where the poor could pay teachers and students of theology. The religious character of the Sorbonne is reflected not least, in the magnificent university chapel. It does not just among connoisseurs of architecture as a major work of the French Baroque style. The decoration of the University was still later. At the beginning of the apprenticeship had to spend the protagonists of the Sorbonne in (more…)

The magnificent dome of the Basilica of Sacre Coeur on Montmartre hill monumental monitored over the Seine metropolis. In the shadow of the white church can be found in the Rue du Mont Cenis, the rather small and simple church of Saint Pierre de Montmartre. Often, vacationers and tourists pass by on the modest building to guess without that Saint Pierre one of the oldest churches in Paris.
Also probably one of the most interesting religious buildings on the Seine. Hard to believe that the artists’ village of Montmartre, which is late in annexing to the city of Paris one of the oldest seats of Christianity in the French capital has. Even in the days of the Merovingian at this point there was a building that was dedicated to St. Dionysus. Previously this was a Roman temple. Even today, are four black marble pillars, which were installed in Saint Pierre de Montmartre from that period. By 17 Century belonged to a Benedictine monastery of Saint Pierre in the 12th which Century, the retreat of the French queen was. The pope consecrated the church even in those days. In many ways, Saint Pierre de Montmartre is probably one of the most interesting churches of France. However due to its buildings include the historic buildings of the pioneers of a whole epoch. One can see one of the first cross-ribbed vault. Especially friends of the early Romanesque place at Saint Pierre de Montmartre favor. Some details still remain from the early days. But like almost every church there is also this system in constant change and was last 1953, new windows by the artist Max Ingrand. History and architecture enthusiasts should not miss this delicacy in the heart of Montmartre missed.