| With its wealth of museums and art galleries | | | | Antioch's statue the Venus de Milo. In recent |
| and a reputation for fine food and wine, it's | | | | years the Louvre has also become a popular |
| easy to see why Paris is the top destination | | | | destination for fans of the Dan Brown book |
| choice for UK tourists taking a city break or | | | | 'The Da Vinci code' as a large portion of the |
| short weekend away. If you are planning a | | | | book is set here. |
| Paris city break, here are 5 of Paris' top | | | | |
| tourist attractions to which you should | | | | Pompidou Centre |
| consider paying a visit. | | | | |
| | | | This enormous futuristic building is home to |
| The Eiffel Tower | | | | a vast public library, a centre for music and |
| | | | acoustic research and the national museum of |
| The Eiffel tower is one of the worlds most | | | | modern art, displaying approximately 2000 |
| well known monuments and is probably the | | | | works of art including pieces by artists such |
| first place most tourists on holiday in Paris | | | | as Kandinsky, Matisse and Picasso. The |
| will head to upon their arrival in Paris. The | | | | Beaubourg Plaza in front of the Pompidou |
| 324 metre high tower was erected in 1889 as | | | | centre is a tourist attraction in its own |
| the entrance arch for the Exposition | | | | right as jugglers, mime artists and street |
| Universelle worlds fair and draws in excess | | | | performers continually draw crowds of people. |
| of 6 million visitors every year. Visitors to | | | | |
| the tower can take an elevator to the top | | | | Notre Dame Cathedral |
| level to enjoy a panoramic view over Paris as | | | | |
| well as various exhibitions about the tower | | | | Completed in 1345, Notre Dame Cathedral was |
| and its creator, Gustave Eiffel. | | | | built upon the site of Paris' first Christian |
| | | | Church and is considered to be one of the |
| The Louvre | | | | finest examples of French gothic |
| | | | architecture. Highilghts for visitors to the |
| With approximately 35,000 works of art, the | | | | Cathedral include the West Rose Window; a |
| Louvre gallery and museum will be a must see | | | | beautiful stained glass window ten metres in |
| for art lovers. The Louvre is the most | | | | diameter, the Kings Gallery which features a |
| visited attraction in Paris and is home to | | | | line of 28 statues of the kings of Israel and |
| some of the world's most famous works of art | | | | Judah, and the Galerie des Chimères where |
| including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and | | | | you will find the cathedrals legendary |
| Madonna of the rocks and Alexandros of | | | | gargoyles. |