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MONUMENTS






Full day Versailles tour (skip the lines)


During a day, you will discover with your private guide the Palace of Versailles, the symbol of France's grandeur during the reign of the Sun King.


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Half day Versailles tour (skip the lines)

During 4 hours you will discover with your private guide the Palace of Versailles, the symbol of France's grandeur during the reign of the Sun King.


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Sainte Chapelle and Conciergerie (skip the lines)


Stained glass windows, rose windows, holy crown of the Christ, Saint Louis,


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Opera Garnier


Phantom of the Opera, Degas dancers, Napoléon III, Garnier, Carpeaux’s dancers,











Catacombs


Ossuary, 6 million skeletons, stone and plaster quarries,












Conciergerie


Marie-Antoinette detention, Royal residence of the French king, antechamber of the guillotine,









Saint Denis basilica


Cradle of the Gothic Art, Necropolis of the French kings, marble graves,










Panthéon


French great Men Mausoleum, Sainte Geneviève between myth and reality,






The Val de Grace Chapel


Vow of Queen Ann of Austria, cloister and church, baroque masterpiece of art and architecture.



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PARIS DISTRICTS
MONUMENTS
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Full day Versailles tour (skip the lines)



During a day, you will discover with your private guide the Palace of Versailles, the symbol of France's grandeur during the reign of the Sun King.

Half day Versailles tour (skip the lines)



During 4 hours you will discover with your private guide the Palace of Versailles, the symbol of France's grandeur during the reign of the Sun King.

Sainte Chapelle




Ethereal and magical, Sainte¬Chapelle has been hailed as one of the greatest architectural masterpieces of the Western World. In the Middle Ages the devour likened this church to "a gateway to heaven". Today no visitor can fail to be transported by the blaze of light created by he 15 magnificent stained-glass windows, separated by the narrowest of columns that soar 15 m (50 ft) to the star-studded, vaulted roof. The windows portray over 1,000 religious scenes in a kaleidosccpe of red, gold, green, blue and mauve. The chapel was built in 1248 by Louis IX to house Christ's purported Crown of Thorns and other relics.




Notre Dame Cathedral




No other building is so associated with the history of Paris as Notre-Dame. It stands majestically on the Ile de la Cite, cradle of the city. Pope Alexander III laid the first stone in 1163, marking the start of 170 years of toil by armies of Gothic architects and medieval craftsmen. Ever since, a procession of the famous has passed through the three main doors below the massive towers.

The cathedral is a Gothic masterpiece, standing on the site of a Roman temple. At the time it was finished, in about 1330, it was 130 m (430 ft) long and featured flying buttresses, a large transept, a deep choir and 69-m (228-ft) high towers.

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