Hotel paris

Located in the heart of the sixth arrondissement of Paris, the Saint-Sulpice church has recently been much talk about it later … the publication in 2003 of the famous book « The Da Vinci Code, » in which Robert Langton looking for a key in the church and researched by the killer …

Built in the seventeenth century, but with foundations dating from the twelfth century, this building is one of the biggest churches in the capital.

Among the items that decorating the interior, a gnomom, a simple-shaped sundial dating from the eighteenth century, stands in the north wing of the transept in the form of an obelisk inlaid with a brass wire extending into the pavement to the south, representing the line « meridian. »

In fine weather, when the sun is at its zenith, a light beam strikes the line at a point which varies depending on time of year.

« Hotel de Saint Germain Paris », a peaceful hotel located in the center of Saint Germain des Pres, in Paris’ Left Bank.

In 1885 store in Paris which sold new products with the name Les Deux Magots given way to a coffee liqueur, which will keep the same name.

Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme, among others, took then used to meet there. Frequented by many artists including Sartre, Prévert, Picasso, Prévert, Simone de Beauvoir, Hemingway, Les Deux Magots forged its reputation of an intellectual Café.

If it is still appreciated by people and neo-intellectual, coffee also perpetuates the tradition of servers dressed in black and white still serve some drinks to the customer, on presentation of the bottle. The chocolate is still prepared like the old shelves from melted in milk and coffee, as before, in real steaming pots.

« Hotel de Saint Germain Paris », a peaceful hotel located in the center of Saint Germain des Pres, in Paris’ Left Bank.

The place that now houses the gardens and the Luxembourg Palace in Paris was at the beginning a Roman camp. When the Chartreux have settled there in 1257, this site was a seedy place of green to the point we considered it as the evil. The Chartreux turned it into a flourishing monastery.

Marie de Medici bought the Duke of Luxembourg’s hotel in 1612 and in 1615 she built her palace made ​​by Salomon de Brosse in a Renaissance style reminding her of his native country. Despite the exil, the Palace stay the property of the royal family until the Revolution. The gardens were enlarged encroaching on the Chartreux’s lands, and now offer a splendid setting for walkers. The Luxembourg Palace is today the seat of the Senate.

« Hotel de Saint Germain Paris », a peaceful hotel located in the center of Saint Germain des Pres, in Paris’ Left Bank.