A huge number of every possible articles, reviews, poems and novels is written about Paris. And on our site it is possible to find a lot of interesting information on this remarkable city. And always reading something it would be desirable not only that the reading matter was interesting but also informative and, probably, useful. In this small article we also have decided to make some kind of charts of the most interesting Parisian places necessary to include in the program of stay in the capital of France. So, we begin.

The tenth place in our top list is occupied with the well-known Champs Elysée pleasing all tourists without exception with bright light of magnificent shops’ show-windows, restaurants, sung in many songs. Even if you do not presume to come into an expensive restaurant, in any case you should make a walk here at least to see Arch Triomphe.

Someone can disagree but we have given the ninth place to such a collective sight as the Parisian cafes. A cafe in France is not a place where it is possible to “drop in” for a pair of minutes and, having drunk a cup of coffee, easy to leave. Local cafes are a unique cultural phenomenon. In these numerous institutions parents bring up children, old men teach the young life, here they rejoice and mourn, fall in love and part, sign business contracts … in general, in cafe there is everything that can happen in a human life.

Place number eight – museums of Paris. In the capital of France such a huge number of various museums and exhibitions are organized and function that even an inquisitive scientist will find something earlier unknown and fascinating for him/herself. Here are painting-sculptural galleries (the Louvre, Pompidou’s Center and others), and the Museum of figures from wax (not Madame Tussauds museum, of course, but interesting too), and such original places, as the Museum of the Parisian water drain or Museums of fakes and magic. To put it briefly, the Parisian museums are rather various and fascinating.

The seventh place is occupied with the sung not only in France the Cathedral of the Parisian mother of god (or in another way, Notre Dame de Paris). Known to many of us from a novel of the same name of the classic of the French literature Victor Hugo, the cathedral has settled down in the heart of the city, on an islet in the middle of the Seine. To visit Paris and not to see Notre Dame is some kind of a crime.

Sacré Cœur and Montmartre deservedly appear on the sixth line of the rating-list: а magnificent cathedral and a place where well-known Moulin Rouge appeared. Is it possible to bypass and not to see it with your own eyes coming to Paris?

We have given the fifth position to Moulin Rouge – cabaret thanks to which cancan gained its fame, under arches of which such legends of world stage as Yves Montand, Charles Aznavour, Liza Minnelli and many other acted.

On the fourth place is the symbol of Paris – the majestic Tour d’Eiffel directing its spike up. Telling something about it has no sense, it is necessary to see it.

Number three. The Parisian La Défense which architectural feature is the futuristic style of buildings. It is remarkable that the first structures have appeared here in fiftieth years of last century. We don’t describe, it is better to see all with your own eyes.

The second position is for … Aquaboulevard de Paris – the world of water attractions and entertainments where for ten dollars you will spend an unforgettable day.

The first place is occupied with the Parisian Disneyland. Although this place is created on analogue with American, it doesn’t loose its interest. Hundred thousand tourists from every corner of the globe spend time here, taking away unforgettable impressions.

Throughout our stories about Paris it would be desirable to stop on one more interesting place interesting for visiting while in this city. We dedicate this article to one of the most original museums of the French capital – to the museum of the Parisian water drain. However, before talking of the museum, we will address directly to the history of water supply of the city.

So, in the first millennium of our era Parisians used to take drinking water undertook from the Seine, and sewage was distributed on street channels which went back to the river. In the thirteenth century king Phillip August has decided to build streets with special drainage channels for sewage in Paris.

The seventieth of the fourteenth century were marked by building of drainage channels from stone which were led to Montmartre. However this system remained imperfect as sewage still evaporated in city air that led to a constant stench and unsanitary conditions.

During King Louis XIV, and later Napoleon, there was a building of the big sewer collector systems the extent of which has reached more than thirty kilometers.

And only in the second half of the nineteenth century there appeared a good-working system of water supply and the water drain in Paris, by Baron Haussmann and engineer Eugène Belgrand. Thus, the city has received a separate system of water pipe with non-drinking and drinking water; the extent of the collector has made about six hundred kilometers. Certainly, the given system was not perfect, but thanks to it the city has received sewer system which corresponded to sanitary code much more and had modernization possibility.

But, we will return to the museum of the Parisian water drain. The starting point of excursions, that is the entrance to the museum premises, is on Seine left-hand side nearby with the Alma Bridge (Pont de l’Alma). This place is a fragment of the nowadays water drain system. Visiting the museum, you have a possibility to make excursion on the real sewer tunnels, equipped with both modern and used at various times equipment. The visitors will see numerous mechanisms showing the way the water drain had worked long time ago and works nowadays.

Besides, during excursion alongside with units it is possible to see numerous, stands with information, construction equipment, modern systems of computer monitoring. Each tunnel is equipped by a plate with the street name under which it passes. The water drain tunnels repeat the relief of the city streets located over them to the full extent, which is also very remarkable.

For today the museum of the Parisian water drain is very popular among the tourists coming to capital of France. The first excursion has been organized in 1867, and since then they became regular.