By Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck
Lonely Planet: The world's prime go back and forth advisor publisher
Lonely Planet Pocket Athens is your passport to the main correct, up to date recommendation on what to determine and bypass, and what hidden discoveries look ahead to you. wonder on the Acropolis raised spectacularly over Athens, persist with within the footsteps of Socrates on the Agora, or step into the Temple of Olympian Zeus; all along with your relied on go back and forth significant other. Get to the center of the easiest of Athens and start your trip now!
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- Full-colour maps and photographs throughout
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- Insider how to store money and time and get round like a neighborhood, keeping off crowds and bother spots
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- Honest experiences for all budgets - consuming, slumbering, sight-seeing, going out, procuring, hidden gemstones that the majority guidebooks miss
- Free, handy pull-out Athens map (included in print version), plus over 21 color local maps
- User-friendly structure with beneficial icons, and arranged via local that will help you decide the easiest spots to spend your time
- Covers Acropolis, old Agora, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Greek Parliament, Syntagma, Plaka, Keramikos, Gazi, Filopappou Hill, Thisio, Monastiraki, Psyrri, Exarhia, Kolonaki, Benaki Museum, and more
The excellent selection: Lonely Planet Pocket Athens is a colourful, easy-to-use, and convenient consultant that actually matches on your pocket, presents on-the-go suggestions for these looking simply the can't-miss reports to maximise a short journey experience.
About Lonely Planet: due to the fact 1973, Lonely Planet has turn into the world's major go back and forth media corporation with guidebooks to each vacation spot, an award-winning web site, cellular and electronic trip items, and a devoted vacationer group. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but additionally permits curious tourists to get off crushed paths to appreciate extra of the tradition of the locations within which they locate themselves.
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St-Jean l’Evangéliste by Anatole de Baudot is an interesting modern church combining the Art Nouveau style with Islamic arches. The modern gem of Islamic architecture, the Mosquée de Paris, is an attractive 1920s building in the HispanicMoorish style. It has a grand patio, inspired by the Alhambra, woodwork in cedar and eucalyptus, and a fountain. St-Sulpice Neo-Classical The arches of St-Jean L’Evangéliste, reminiscent of Islamic architecture Finding the Churches Chapelle de la Sorbonne p159 Dôme Church pp188–9 La Madeleine p218 Mosquée de Paris pp168–9 Notre-Dame pp82–5 Panthéon pp160–61 Sacré-Coeur pp226–7 Sainte-Chapelle pp88–9 Sainte-Clotilde p191 Salpêtrière p169 St-Etienne-du-Mont p159 St-Eustache p116 St-Germain-des-Prés p140 St-Germain l’Auxerrois p117 St-Gervais–St-Protais p103 St-Jean l’Evangéliste p230 St-Joseph-des-Carmes p175 St-Julien-le-Pauvre p158 St-Louis-des-Invalides p190 St-Merry p114 St-Paul–St-Louis p103 St-Roch p131 St-Séverin p158 St-Sulpice p174 Tour St-Jacques p117 Val-de-Grâce p175 SainteClotilde Second Empire Mosquée de Paris Modern 52 I N T R O D U C I N G PA R I S Paris’s Best: Gardens, Parks, and Squares Few cities can boast the infinite variety of styles found in Parisian gardens, parks, and squares today.
Bois de Boulogne See pp256–7. Interior of Notre-Dame Cathedral Eiffel Tower See pp196–7. Notre-Dame See pp82–5. Arc de Triomphe See pp212–13. 46 I N T R O D U C I N G PA R I S Remarkable Parisians By virtue of its strategic position on the Seine, Paris has always been the economic, political, and artistic hub of France. Over the centuries, many prominent and influential figures from other parts of the country and abroad have come to the city to absorb its unique spirit. In return, they have left their mark: artists have brought new movements, politicians new schools of thought, musicians and filmmakers new trends, and architects a new environment.
With the best architects and engineers of the day, he planned a new city, improved the water supply and sewerage, and created beautiful parks. Some avenues were named after French generals. 1861 Garnier designs new Opera House 1860 1862 1863 The nudity in Manet’s Le 1867 World Déjeuner sur l’Herbe causes a scandal and is rejected by the Academy (see pp146 –7) Exhibition 1864 1866 1870 Napoleon’s wife, Eugénie, flees Paris at threat of war 1868 1863 Crédit Lyonnais bank established 1862 Victor Hugo’s epic novel of Paris’s poor, Les Misérables, published 1868 Press censorship relaxed 1870 Start of Franco- Prussian War 38 I N T R O D U C I N G PA R I S The Belle Epoque The Franco-Prussian War culminated in the terrible Siege of Paris.