The area of the Paris basin has been occupied by man for about 700,000 years. Hunter-gatherers, farmers,
merchants, students, writers, kings and revolutionaries have all looked on the City of Light as their home. It is a
city of many more contrasts than the "town and gown" of the Middle Ages. Within its walls you will find magnificent
churches close by tawdry dance halls, humble sidewalk cafés nestled beside elegant 5-star restaurants,
bustling
metropolitan traffic roaring past peaceful gardens amd parks. Workers, shopkeepers, and businessmen, occupied
with their mundane concerns, walk daily in the shadow of some of the greatest monuments of history. Paris,
deprecated by the non-Parisian areas of France, works its unique magic on the rest of the world. Having once
visited her, you will not be satisfied until you return.
On this page you will find some links to what many people consider the most beautiful city in the world. Click on the thumbnail buttons below to see enlargements of some scenes from our short stay in Paris in July, 1995, while on a concert tour with the Worthington Civic Band. |
Les Pages de Paris - The Paris Pages
Paris Weather (Intellicast)
Focus on France - Paris
Lonely Planet - Destination: Paris
Pariscope, une semaine de Paris
The Paris Metro System
Paris in Stereo (3-D photographs)
Paris-Anglophone on the Web
The Paris Zoom Home Page
City.Net Paris, France
WebMuseum: Paris
Paris My Love
Magic Paris
The Official Louvre Home Page
Le Grande Louvre
Restaurants Parisiens
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