Paris is the capital of France. It is located in the north of the country, furrowed by the Seine. It is center of a metropolitan area of 11.174.743 inhabitants (2004), one of the greater ones of Europe and than corresponds to the Parisian Region or “Island of France” (in French Île-of-France).
Paris already was in Roman times a small town located in the Island of Cité. This way it inhabited the tribe of parisi.
At Roman time, the town expanded by the left margin of the island. It is the population of Lutecia, whose rest still arise in some points.
It did not get to have a political preeminence in Roman times, but the place consolidated as center of the kingdom of the francs and continued engrandeciendo itself in all medievo.
Protected in its political preeminence, the city also acquired cultural reputation, with its university, the Sorbona, where outstanding men of the time theorized.
The great kings of the borbónica monarchy continued engrandeciendo the large city, that also had tragic moments in the end of century XVIII with the revolutionary stage.
Napoleón continued the city-planning development of the city, to which it wanted to turn capital of the civilized world.
Paris has a unique patrimony. one is a city where excellent artistic samples can be found for all time and countries.
To this wealth beautiful and calm location is united its, in the shore of the Seine.
There are places of Paris whose visit is essential. Among them we could emphasize Torre Eiffel, the Arc of the Triumph, the seat of the Concorde, the Tullerias, Notre Dame, the Seine with “bateaux mouches” and its romantic cruises by the river, the Elíseos Fields, Monmartre, Plaza Pigalle, the Moulin Rouge…
It is not necessary to forget the two islands that there are in center of the Seine, The one of Cité and the one of San Luis, the expensive and elegant places but of Paris.
When speaking of Paris, it is necessary to also add the Defense (in Courveboie) and Versailles, that, although are separated populations are so near Paris which meetings are visited.
In the city of Paris it emphasizes on all buildings the silhouette of Torre Eiffel, symbol of an industrial world and modern front to a traditional city. Torre Eiffel was construída between 1887 and 1889, in the occasion of the celebration of the universal exhibition of 1889. Later it was used as tower of communications and radio and nowadays has become one of main the attractiveness of the city. It was construída with 7,000 tons of fused iron and has a height of more than 300 meters, which provides an extraordinary Vista of the city. At the moment it receives daily the visit of 15,000 people, between tourists and Parisians.
Paris is a cosmopolitan and gramurosa city. In Paris it is possible to go to the opera or to go to buy by the stores more selections of Saint-Germain, including the warehouses more conocides, the Lafayette Galleries. Its gigantic crystal cupola gives shelter to warehouses in which it emphasizes the ground floor, full of colonies and most novel and refined perfumes of. Also it is possible to be taken a walk by the streets, accompanied by the accordion sound of the traveling musicians who teem by Montmatre. In Paris numerous and luxurious restaurants exist, exclusive places where to taste the excellent French kitchen or where to know the best kitchens the world of the best hand of chefs.