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Paris pictures. Paris needs no introduction, being probably the most well-known city on Earth (and thus a symbol of Europe). Paris is also one of the most beautiful cities of the world, home to many architectural icons: the 320m high Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's huge Triumphal Arch, the Notre Dame church, the Louvre Palace, the Sacré Coeur cathedral, the typical French houses lining the city's avenues, and in general, the 'Parisian atmosphere'.

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Siesta under Napoleon's Triumphal Arch

The Pont des Arts (Bridge of Arts) footbridge with the Institut de France.

At a Parisian cafe

View of Paris from the top of Napoleon's Triumphal Arch.

Champs-Élysées (meaning the 'Elysian Fields'), the best-known grand avenue of Paris. The Jardin des Tuileries and the Palais du Louvre can be seen in the background.

Trees lining the Champs-Élysées.

The Champs-Élysées with the Arch de Triomphe, as seen from the Place de la Concorde.

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Place de la Concorde, between the Champs-Élysées and the Louvre.

The pedestrianized center of Place de la Concorde.

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In the garden of a convent (not open to the public) in the 16th district (16e arrondissement), a wealthy area of Paris

Along the Boulevard de la Chapelle near Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad

Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel), the most well-known landmark of France (and maybe Europe).

The stairs leading up to the tower's viewing platforms are visible among the girders.

Under the Eiffel Tower.

The elaborate ornaments of the Eiffel Tower.

The streets surrounding Eiffel Tower.

Paris at night.

Electric car charging point - as of 2009, Paris (as part of the Autolib' programme) is planning to introduce thousands of electric cars for rent, which could be picked up and dropped off at any of hundreds of rental points in the city

Fog over Paris.

Immigrants playing football in the Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad

Quartier de la Goutte d'Or ('Golden Drop District') is a predominantly working-class African neighbourhood in Paris

The modern Grande Arche de la Défense in the financial quarter of Paris, the Défense.

French children on the Great Arch's stairs.

Hunger

Métro.

St Louis Island on the Seine.

Parisian houses on Ile de St Louis.

The old royal palace of Louvre with the recently completed glass Louvre Pyramid in the middle.

The Louvre as seen from the glass pyramid.

Bridge leading to the Louvre

Rue des Malmaisons, Chinatown

Chinese McDonalds in Paris's Chinatown (near Porte d'Ivry)

Merry-go-round on an overcast spring day

Underground map in the Trocadéro tube station.

Trocadéro station

The Parisian Métropolitain subway.

The facade of the Institut du Monde Arabe consists of thousands of light-sensitive shutters that control the lightness of the building's interior.

The Panthéon as seen from the Arab World Institute

The hill of Montmartre with the cathedral Sacré Coeur.

View from Montmartre.

View from Montmartre.

Buskers in Paris.

Place de la Concorde at nightfall.

Notre Dame from a less well-known angle.

View from the Notre Dame.

Old age

Sunday in Bois de Boulogne, a huge park in the 16th arrondissement (16. district) of Paris

The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in front of the Louvre.

The small triumphal arch.

The Pigalle station of the Paris subway system

Bike lane under Bir-Hakeim Bridge's elevated métro tracks

The RER suburban railway of Paris.

Rain.

Rollerskater Critical Mass(?) under the ugly high-rises of Quai André Citroen and Quai de Grenelle along the river Seine

Typical Parisian house.

By the Canal St-Martin

French sandwiches

Bridge over the Seine.

The bank of the Seine.

Next to the Seine.

Day off

Fashion?

Two of the 12 avenues radiating from the square where Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe is located (Place Charles de Gaulle / Étoile).

Space invader (from the 80s computer game) in Paris

Relaxing by on the banks of the Canal Saint-Martin

Avenue de Choisy, the high street of Chinatown

On top of the post-modern Pompidou Centre (Beaubourg) art exhibition hall.

Old lamps with the obelisk in Place de la Concorde.

The Avenue de la Grand Armée which runs towards the Défense quarter, forming part of the Voie Triomphale (Triumphal Way), or the Axe Historique (Historic Axis).

Trocadéro.

The Jardin des Tuileries, between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde.

Overlooking Paris from Montmartre

Football pitch under elevated Jaurès metro station

Vélib', the public bicycle hire programme of Paris has about 20,000 bicycles (as of 2009) - to rent a bike, just touch your Passe Navigo (the electronic travel pass used in Paris) to the reader, and to return it, just drop it off at any of the 1,000+ docking stations

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The colors of Paris.
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