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Touring to Paris
The City
Paris is the largest city in France and the country's capital city as well. It is situated in Northern France on the river Seine. The city of Paris has an estimated population of 2,167,994 (January 2006) but the Paris metropolitan area has a population of over 11 million.
Today Paris is one of the world's leading business and cultural centers because of contributors such as its politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science and the arts. Paris a genuine cultural wealth and home to a varied population, with a high proportion of young workers, students, elderly people, tourists and foreign residents.
Paris is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, with 45 million tourists every year in the Paris Region, 60% of whom are foreign visitors. The city's many attractions include numerous iconic landmarks, world-famous institutions and popular parks.
The Climate
Paris sees extremely high or low temperatures due to its oceanic climate, affected by the North Atlantic Current. Rain falls throughout the year, and although Paris is not a very rainy city, it is known for sudden showers. Light rainfall is fairly distributed throughout the year with an average annual precipitation is 642mm. Snowfall is rare, but the city sometimes sees light snow or flurries without accumulation. The highest temperature ever recorded was 40.4°C in 1948 and the lowest was -23.9°C in 1879.
Summers
Paris has warm and pleasant summers with average high temperatures of 25 °C and low of 15 °C.
Winters
Paris has chilly winters but temperatures rarely falls below freezing point with average temperatures of around 3°C to 8 °C.
Spring and Autumn
Paris's spring and autumn months are known for its mild and occasionally warmer days and cool evenings.
Landmarks and Monuments
Three of the most famous Parisian landmarks are the twelfth-century cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, the Napoleonic Arc de Triomphe and the nineteenth-century Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower was a "temporary" construction by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Universal Exposition, but the tower was never dismantled and is now an enduring symbol of Paris. Buildings, monuments and thoroughfares run in a roughly straight line from the city-center, called the Historical axis. Beginning with the Louvre and continues through the Tuileries Gardens, the Champs-Élysées, and the Arc de Triomphe, centered in the Place de l'Étoile circus.The line was prolonged even further west to the La Défens business district from the 1960s, dominated by square-shaped triumphal Grande Arche of its own (this district hosts most of the tallest skyscrapers in the Paris urban area).
Getting to Paris
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Tourism in Paris
Since the early 11th century Paris was a popular destination for students, traders and religious pilgrimages. Paris' many monuments, especially the Eiffel Tower from 1889, is among the first mass attractions drawing international interest. Paris welcomed some 27 million visitors in 2006.
Music
Several yearly festivals take place in Paris, such as Rock en Seine.
Paris' houses 2 of the largest opera houses, the Opéra Garnier (historical Paris Opéra) and modern Opéra Bastille. Some of Paris' major theaters include Bobino, Théâtre Mogador, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse.
Museums
Paris' museums and monuments are among its highest-esteemed attractions. The Louvre is the city's most prized museum and welcomes more than 8 million visitors annually, making it the world's most-visited museum by far.Another main attraction of the city is the city's cathedrals. The Notre Dame de Paris received 12 million visitors and the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur received 8 million visitors. Paris' most famous monument, the Eiffel Tower averages over 6 million annual visitors and more than 200 million visitors since it has been constructed. Another major tourist attraction of Paris is the Disneyland Resort Paris that attracts visitors from all over Europe and attracted 14.5 million visitors in 2007 alone.
Transportation
Although Paris has been building its transportation system throughout the years, it keeps on renovating it today.
Rails
The Métro is Paris' most important transportation system.The Metro is connected by 214km of rails and has 300 stations. Paris is served by a light rail network of four lines, called the tramway. With another 6 light rail lines currently in different stages of development.
Bikes
The city of Paris also offers a bike sharing system called Vélib' with more than 20 000 public bicycles at 1450 parking stations. The bicycles can be rented for one way trips or any short or medium distances.
Ferry (Voguéo)
The new ferry service Voguéo has been inaugurated in June 2008, on the rivers Seine and Marne.
Airports
Paris is served by two major airports. The Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport is known as one of the busiest airports in the world and the Orly Airport is situated in the south of Paris. The Beauvais Tillé Airport is only used by charter and low-cost ailines. The Le Bourget airport only hosts business jets, air trade shows and the aerospace museum.
Motorway Network
The city is also the most important hub of France's motorway network, and is surrounded by three orbital freeways. The city has an extensive road network, consisting of over more than 2000km of motorways and highways.Brussels can be reached in 3 hours by road, Frankfurt in 6 hours and Barcelona in 12 hours.
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