#paris landmarks

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The central dome of Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris

Photos by Charles Reeza

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The Avenue des Champs~Élysées, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris

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Notre Dame Cathedral

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The Art Nouveau atrium and Byzantine Revival stained-glass dome of the Galeries Lafayette department store on Boulevard Haussmann in Paris. The store's inauguration ceremony took place in October 1912.

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The Basilica Cathedral of Saint Denis, north of Paris - This is the birthplace of what is now called early Gothic art and architecture.  Features such as cross-ribbed vaults, pointed arches, flying buttresses and rose windows were used here for the first time in Europe when the church was rebuilt in the 12th century.  This became the inspiration for countless churches built in “the French style” as it was known until the 16th century.

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Moulin Rouge - Pigalle, Paris

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The Grand Foyer of the Palais Garnier (1861-75) in Paris

The ceiling was painted by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry and represents various moments in the history of music. There are more than thirty paintings in all, and it took the painter ten years to complete the work.

Photos by Charles Reeza

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The ceiling painted by Marc Chagall for Paris’s Opéra Garnier provoked outrage when it was unveiled in 1964. Traditionalists objected to the integration of modernist art into Charles Garnier’s neo-Baroque masterpiece. It is now one of the Opéra’s most popular attractions.

Photo by Charles Reeza