Sunday, February 22, 2015
Les Palais de Versailles
Versailles is both a palace and a castle. When it was constructed, it was talked about all through Europe and imitated. The Treaty of Versailles which officially ended World War I was signed at Versailles. Versailles is located ten miles southwest of Paris. It has a very big and important halls called the "Hall of Mirrors", or the "Great Hall". It is one of the biggest thing known of Versailles by King Louis XIV 'The Sun King". The hall of Mirrors was originally a terrace but then put into a room to make more safe one o the most important rooms of Versailles. "The Sun King" was fascinated by fountains and one-third of Versailles expenses were of water used by the fountains. Versailles is capable of holding twenty-thousand people, has seven-hundred rooms, over two-thousand windows, one-thousand-two-hundred chimneys, and sixty-seven windows.
Le Musée D'Orsay
The museum is thirty-teo meters high, and one-hundred-thirty-eight meters long. Its materials were 12,000 tons of metallic structure, 35,000 meters of glass, and 1,600 staff rose casings in the nave. The museum gets more than three-million visitors per year. The museum has twelve elevators, and ten escalators. It was founded in 1986. The architects were Gae Aulenti, Victor Laloux, and Émile Bénard. The museum even has work by Van Gogh. The museum has more that one-hundred artworks in total.
La Basilique du Sacre Coeur
The hill in which La Basilique called "Montmartre" has been sacred since the Pagan times. The Druids are thought to have worshiped here, and also the Romans built temples to Mars and Mercury here. "Mons Martis" was the original name of Montmarte, which means "Mount of Mars, later on it became Christianized and has the name it has now. A competition was made in the 1800s to design La Basilique, the winner was "Paul Abadie". It is constructed of stone from Chateau-Landon, which is very known for its very high content of calcite. When the weather is damp, calcite comes out of the stone, which makes La Basilique look chalky white.
Les Invalides
Les Invalides was originally made a hospitl for wounded or injured soldiers during war. The hospital was started on November 24, 1670 by Louis XIV. Already by 1674 soldiers were being put into Les Invalides and it was officially open by 1675. When being built Louis XIV kept adding and adding more constructions to the original plans. By the end of the contrition it was fifteen courtyards.
La Conciergerie
This was the prison in which the late Queen Marie Antoinette was held before her death. La Conciergerie is a former prison, and wen you were inside as a prisoner the only way that you could get out is death. Many people were executed there by the Guillotine, an execution in which the head of the person is cut off of the body in one cut by a large knife. Today La Conciergerie is still being used to judicial purposes. In 1914 La Conciergerie, opened a museum as a Historical National Monument.
La Grande Arche
La Grande Arche is cube that is one-hundred-six meters high. It has a concrete frame covered by glass and white Carrara marble from Italy. It was designed in 1989 by a Danish architect Otto van Spreckelsen in the two-hundredth anniversary of 1789 French Revolution. It is a skyscraper, and a government office building. It is located in the business district of Paris, France, and is also known as "La Défense".
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Le Centre Pompidou
The construction of The Pompidou Center cost 58,800,000 Euros. Together in 1971, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, also with Ove Arup & Partners, won a competition for an "information, entertainment and cultural center". The building was design and completely built in six years. It is located in Paris, France, and has a modern art museum, industrial design center, reference library, children's library and art center, audio-visual research center, and restaurants. The Pompidou Center is 46m tall.
L'Opéra Garnier
The very famous love story "The Phantom of the Opera" was based on the basement of The Opera House because of the fact that it kept flooding. Charles Garnier is the architect of the famous Opera House. The Garner Opera House's construction started on August 1861 and inaugurated on January 5, 1875. The Opera house took fourteen years to build, and it was one of the one-hundred-seventy-one proposals sent in to a competition, and won the competition. It cost 36,010,571.04 French Francs. It is fifty-six meters high, and one-hundred-fifty-four . nine meters long.
L'Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe's construction was ordered by The French Emperor Napoleon. The Arc cost 9.3 million French Francs, which was an enormous amount of money at that time. The construction of The Arc de Triomphe was completed by 1836, which was much time after Napoleon had past away in 1821. The Arc de Triomphe is a memorial, dedicated to the French soldiers who died during World War One. Napoleon's soldiers won the Russo-Austrian army on December 2, 1805. Napoleon then told his victorious soldiers "You will return home though arch of triumph". The Arc is 49m high, 22m deep, and 45m wide. On the Arc there is one-hundred-twenty-eight names of the battles fought by the French Republic and "1814" is engraved on the walls under the vault, along with the names of the generals who fought them.
Le Musée de Louvre
The Louvre Museum opened to the public in August 10, 1793. For over six-hundred years the Louvre was a symbol of wealth, decadence of the French Monarchy, and power. Today it is one of the world's largest museums, with 70,000 pieces of art in 650,000 square feet. It has about 8.8 million visitors yearly, and it takes about two-thousand employees to maintain the museum. One is the biggest and most valuable artworks of the world is at The Louvre which is the "Mona Lisa". The Louvre Museum is 21m tall.
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