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It leads on the right to the Latin 30 THE MARY BRIDGE 14 01 quarter, which took its name in the Middle Facing you now it is the Mary Bridge, the 05 04 MUSÉE DU LOUVRE 12 17 THE LEGION OF HONOUR PALACE Ages when they used to teach in Latin at most romantic bridge in Paris. Legend has 11 the famous Sorbonne College. 07 02 After the footbridge on your right, with its it that if you pass under the bridge for the green dome, you can see the Legion of first time, you have to make a wish, and 06 08 15 Honour palace. Nowadays it houses the 24 NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL once you are under the bridge you have to 17 09 03 13 HÔTEL DE VILLE Legion of Honour museum – the Legion of Facing you now is the gothic jewel of Paris: close your eyes and kiss your neighbour, 18 35 10 31 Honour is the highest French distinction Notre Dame Cathedral. It took almost 2 and then your wish will come true. ASSEMBLÉE 19 34 30 and was created by the Emperor Napoleon th TOUR NATIONALE 33 centuries to build. Between the 12 and 24 32 the First. Now take a closer look at it, and th EIFFEL MUSÉE D’ORSAY BASTILLE the 14 Notre-Dame Cathedral is famous 31 THE CITY HALL 22 tell me if it reminds you of another famous 21 for its statues, its gargoyles, its stained On your right is the City Hall of Paris. 23 “House” … It looks like the White House of glass windows, and also for its large rose MONNAIE course, which is 7 times larger, but it was It used to be the main square where DE PARIS 25 26 29 window, just here on your left. It measures executions took place. It now holds built on the model of this Palace. thirteen metres across, and is made of Welcome aboard the Vedettes du Pont Neuf, 28 concerts, music festivals and there is even 27 32,000 pieces of glass. It is on the south an ice-skating rink in winter. for a one-hour cruise together down 18 THE VOLTAIRE BANK side because the entire cathedral is lit up the River Seine, the most beautiful avenue 20 ÎLE DE LA CITÉ INSTITUT DU inside through this window. in Paris ! MONDE ARABE On your right is Voltaire’s bank. I have a 32 THE HOTEL-DIEU 29 ÎLE SAINT-LOUIS little game for you: on this bank there is the smallest house in Paris, between a red house 25 THE TOURNELLE BRIDGE On your left, you can see the famous Hotel-Dieu, which was the first public and a yellow house. I will let you try and find it! We are now facing the Tournelle Bridge ... It is just here on your right between the hospital. It was built in the 7th century - this leads on the right to the famous and it is still in use. last two trees. restaurant called La Tour d’Argent, or in English the Silver Tower. The story goes 01 THE LOUVRE MUSEUM with the gilded dome it is the Hotel des but nowadays there are monuments steeple of the American Church, the first 19 THE ARts FOOTBRIDGE & that it was inside that restaurant where 33 THE CLOCK TOWER Invalides. It houses the tomb of the close to 1 km high. You can visit the Eiffel We will start our cruise with the largest one built outside of the United States, in THE FRENCH INstITUTE King Henry the Third and his mother On the left of the next bridge is the clock Emperor Napoleon. Tower every day, all year round, until monument in Paris, on your right - the 1931. Its stained glass windows where In front of you now is the Arts footbridge, Catherine de Médicis ate for the first tower - the oldest public clock in Paris, 11:00 at night, and till midnight during Louvre Museum. It was originally used created by Tiffany, the famous jeweller. the first iron bridge built in France. It leads time with a table fork. And something dating from the 14th century. as a fortress in the 12th century, then as 07 THE INVALIDES BRIDGE summer. It is repainted every seven years house works of 19th century art. Inside on the right to the French Institute, with its for the kids - the Disney cartoon movie a royal palace, and was turned into a In front of you now it is the Invalides Bridge, - about 60 tons of paint are required and the museum you can admire works by 14 THE GRAND PALACE grey and gilded dome. Composed of five “Ratatouille” used the kitchen of this museum in 1793. It is now the second which celebrates the victories and the battles the restoration lasts for three years. An 34 THE CONCIERGERIE impressionists such as Renoir, Gauguin, academies, the most famous is the French restaurant as a model! A model for the largest museum in the world after the of Napoleon; the boat represents victories on interesting fact is that Parisians didn’t like On your left you can see the roof of On your left it is the Conciergerie. It was Monet, Manet, Van Gogh and numerous Academy. Its 40 members are called the kitchen, that is, not the rat! Hermitage. Its collections consist of the seas, the cannon victories on land. it at all when it was built. They found it the Grand Palace, which was built for initially a Royal Palace and was turned others. At the top, you can see three large “immortals” and they have to review and 35,000 works of art, which are displayed really ugly, and they were afraid the tower the world fair in 1900. Don’t miss its into a jail in the 14th century. Queen Marie statues, which represent the three main produce the French Dictionary every year. in about 16 kilometres of galleries. Inside would collapse. Originally, the Eiffel Tower impressive glass roof - it weighs 8,500 tons, 26 THE stATUE OF SAINTE GENEVIÈVE Antoinette spent the two last months of French cities in the west of the country: 08 THE ROAD & FLOATING GARDENS the museum you can admire the Mona was built for 20 years but it was saved almost as much as the whole Eiffel Tower, At the end of the bridge on the right, her life here before she was beheaded in Nantes, Toulouse and Bordeaux. Lisa, the Wedding Feast at Cana, the On your left, this part of the riverbank was from demolition in 1906 when they put a which if you remember weighs 10,000 20 THE CITY ISLAND you can see the great statue of Sainte the Place de la Concorde. Venus of Milo, the Victory of Samothrace rebuilt as a road in the 1970’s, and opened radio and television antenna on the top. tons. They used to organize car and horse We are now passing by the City Island. Genevieve, sainte patroness of Paris. and many others. Even if you only spent 04 CONCORDE BRIDGE up to pedestrians in the 2010’s. Classified as a historical monument, the races inside; today they still organize horse This is considered as the cradle of Paris, She is carrying a child in her arms, which Don’t miss taking a walk there and Eiffel tower is now the best-known French races, together with major exhibitions and 35 THE NEW BRIDGE three seconds looking at each work of Facing you now it is Concorde Bridge, because 3 centuries before Christ, the first represents the people of Paris. discovering plenty of family activities. symbol around the world. some of the shows in the fashion week. We have now come back to the New art, it would take you three months to see a symbolic bridge because it was built inhabitants settle down there.