Concorde :
Extending from the Seine all the way to the Rue de Rivoli
is the Place de la Concorde, the largest and the most famous
single square in Paris. It probably would be possible to come
to Paris and miss this square if (a) your hotel were located
somewhere in the Latin Quarter and you never ventured beyond
it; (b) your only reason for coming to Paris was to go night-clubbing,
in which case you would probably want to sleep all day; and
(c) you just naturally don't take any interest in anything,
in which case there really was no reason for you to come to
Paris in the first place.
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We are now in Place de la Concorde, not far from the Louvre
museum The river Seine sits at our right. This is the largest
square in Paris, and although it was constructed between 1757
and 1777, it has a long history. In this square the infamous
guillotine was used to kill more than 1,300 heads of members
of the 'antique' regime. After the revolution the square received
its current name: 'Place de la Concorde' (=peace).
At the left you can see the Obelisk of Luxor, a present the
viceroy of Egypt gave to Charles X in 1829 -If you want to
visit the original location of the Obelisk in Egypt, click
here. At the right you can see the big wheel, from where there
is a great landscape view of the center of Paris.
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