The garden created in 1617 by “Boyeau de La Bareaudière”, first theorist of the French garden, on Marie de Médicis’s initiative, organized itself around a central flowerbed crowned with terraces. Two thousand elms aligned in square framed the perspective which stumbled in the South over the wall of the enclosure of the Carthusian monks. The [...]
65 meters long, 21 meters wide and 19 meters high St Germain is a small church. Given the various destructions and multiple restorations, this building’s Roman architecture has much changed since the 11th century, though many of its original elements remain intact. The tops of the altar (in four bays) present traditional themes characteristic of [...]
Place Saint-Michel is located on the Left Bank of Paris, France in the Latin Quarter of the sixth arrondissement. The cross-roads square exists at the intersection of several streets including: Quai Saint-Michel, Boulevard Saint-Michel, Quai des Grandes-Augustus, and Pont Saint-Michel, which connects with Boulevard du Palais on l’Ile de la Cite. A connection by a [...]
Paris is divided in 20 sections called arrondissement, each arrondissement has it’s own peculiarities and differences. Below we’ve plotted some of the monuments that are related to each of these arrondissement. Now Paris also has districts, such as Saint Germain, Latin Quarter, Montparnasse and more these districts are again different, for example Latin Quarter is straddled on [...]
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