Paris - Part 2

To some, Paris is all about Eiffel Tower


Eiffel Tower



Looking at Eiffel Tower from Peace Monument at Champ de Mars


Salute at the Peace monument


In front of Ecole Militaire, the Military School Napolean Bonaparte graduated from.


The Tour de Eiffel is within touch


Spectacular!


Posing with Eiffel, i am taller, haha


Another


And another



And another... never get enough of it


and yet another one


Eiffel Jump





Palais Garnier, or Paris Opera


A nice building decorated with figurines of great musicians and artists of the past


The Monmarte area of Paris


Delicious looking food


Cakes


Monmarte is a place where artists use to gather


Artworks


Lunch: baguette


and a mutilated pain du chocolat, opps...!

At the highest point of Monmarte, stands the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

A beautiful white structure with multiple domes

People hanging around the stairway of Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

From Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, overlooking Paris

Great view of Paris

One of the ivory white towers

Monmarte

The legendary Notre Dame, immortalised by French writer Victor Hugo in Hunchback of Notre Dame.

A magnificient structure of Gothic architecture

Miniature of Notre Dame

Notre Dame from the side

Sq Jean XXIII behind Notre Dame

One of the best view of Notre Dame is from Sq Jean XXIII behind Notre Dame

Distinct flying buttress, which supported the extensively windowed wall

Gargoyles

Louvre Musuem bookstore, the house of La Jaconde better known as Mona Lisa, probably the most famous painting in the world

Hammurabi Code

Sphinx

Agasias of Ephesus, son of Dositheus

Mona Lisa

Two slaves by Michaelangelo

Another Da Vinci painting which was featured in the Da Vinci Code

Venus de Milo

Psyche and Cupid

Spiral staircase below the Glass Pyramid

Outside Louvre, the Glass Pyramid at night

Designed by American Chinese I. M. Pei