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The Louvre ( English: / ˈluːv ( rə )/ LOOV (-rə) ), [4] or the Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre [myze dy luvʁ] ⓘ ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district or ward) and home to some of the ...
The Boulevard Périphérique ( French pronunciation: [bulvaʁ peʁifeʁik] ), often called the Périph, is a limited-access dual-carriageway ring road in Paris, France. With a few exceptions (see Structure and Layout ), it is situated along Paris's administrative limit. The speed limit along the Périphérique is 70 km/h (43.5 mph).
Google Street View coverage. The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver ...
The Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré (pronounced [ʁy dy fobuʁ sɛ̃tɔnɔʁe]) is a street located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.Relatively narrow and nondescript, especially in comparison to the nearby Avenue des Champs-Élysées, it is cited as being one of the most luxurious and fashionable streets in the world thanks to the presence of virtually every major global fashion house ...
The Place de la République ( French pronunciation: [plas də la ʁepyblik]; English: Republic Square; known until 1879 as the Place du Château d'Eau, [plas dy ʃɑto do]) is a square in Paris, located on the border between the 3rd, 10th and 11th arrondissements. The square has an area of 3.4 ha (8.4 acres). [ 1][ 2] Named after the First ...
Map of green spaces in Paris. Paris today has more than 421 municipal parks and gardens, covering more than three thousand hectares and containing more than 250,000 trees. [1] [ verification needed ] The following is a partial list of public parks and gardens in the city.
The Place de la Contrescarpe is located along rue Mouffetard, at the end of rue Lacépède and rue du Cardinal-Lemoine. It is at the center of four administrative quartiers or districts; Saint-Victor, Jardin-des-Plantes, Val-de-Grâce and Sorbonne, making it a central point of the 5th arrondissement. It has a diameter of around forty metres ...
The Paris Region, or Île-de-France, covers 12,012 km 2 (4,638 sq mi), and has its own regional council and president. It has a population of 12,213,447 as of January 2018, or 18.3 percent of the population of France. [2] The metropolitan or functional area ( aire d'attraction) of Paris covers 18,941 km 2 (7,313 sq mi) and has 13,064,617 ...