Posts Tagged ‘history’

Place where gobelins for kings were created

Place where gobelins for kings were createdDear friends, we continue to acquaint you with remarkable places of the French capital visiting which can interest you during your stay in this remarkable city on the Seine.

And this time on turn is Manufacture Royale des Gobelins (the Parisian Royal manufactory of gobelins). Carpets and gobelins are still produced nowadays in this place.  However the suppressing majority of them is issued on the basis of modern sketches corresponding to fashionable tendencies.

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Paris – the grey rose of the European garden

Paris – the grey rose of the European gardenProbably, for someone it will appear news, but Paris is the city most popular with tourists in the world. Annually here come a bigger number of people from different countries, than to such popular tourist centers as London, Athens, Madrid or Berlin.

Someone can tell that it is not surprising, because in capital of France the huge set of the sights known all over the world (Versailles, the Louvre, Tour Eiffel, Arch Triomphe and others) is concentrated. However, it is not absolutely true, as many people visit Paris in search of sentimentality. Knowingly it is called as “the holiday that stays with you” or “the city of enamored”, and those who happened to be there confirm it.

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