lunes, 12 de noviembre de 2012

Second day in Paris.

Montmartre

Montmartre is a hill of 130 meters high, on the top of it is located  Sacré Cœur Basilica it's 80 miters high and it was finished in 1919 after the end of the WW I,  behind it it's located the painter square,as the name  says all the artists congregate there to show their talent and amazing work, beautiful and unique paintings. when we came down of Montmartre we went to the Moulin Rouge the famous Parisian Cabaret. 

Notre Dame 

Notre Dame is a Gothic Style cathedral, its was built it was finished in 1345 and it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, It is one of the most important places  of Paris. Inside the chapel the light doesn't come so the cathedral is really dark, also inside it there is a museum that was clothing of the priest and religious elements most of them made of silver and gold, and with embedded diamonds. On the outside of the cathedral you could see the gargoyles so characteristic of Notre Dame.

Château de Versailles

Or Palace of Versailles, it was finished in 1692 and it was home to the king Louis XIV, also was the political center of France in the XVII century, the palace is a magnificent building, everything is gold plated and everything is characteristic of the wealthy royal family, the palace has many many room and each of them is decorated with unique paintings, the ceilings are like a huge paintings, all the building if full of sculptures, behind of the palace there are the representative gardens of the palace that has over 200.000 trees.

  

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