Friday, June 23, 2006

Sacre Coeur and The Louvre


You may have to wait until I get home for me to show you all the buildings and places in the picture. I'll try to mention the more famous ones. Before you read my description though, you ought to inflate the picture and see how many you can recognize. Lets do the easy ones first. The big patch of green in the middle is the Jardin of Luxembourg, you can zoom in and see the little kids playing with their sailboats in the fountain. Going counter-clockwise you'll see the dome of the Pantheon, and then the patch of green almost at the horizon is the Pere Lachaise cemetary. Its actually significantly larger than the Jardin of Luxembourg, but a lot further away. Just about in the middle of the picture is the Cathedral of Notre Dame in an island of the Seine, and just barely below and to the right of the white tower on the opposite side of the Ile de la cite you can barely see the spire of Sainte Chapelle surrounded by the Palais of Justice. The Pompidou Centre is just behind the white tower, and its hard to miss Saint Sulpice to the left of the picture. The poor Cathedral has a broken spire, which I hope gets fixed before I leave so i can take a picture of it without the nasty scaffolding. The picture below didn't turn out so hot, but I have to post it because it is the connector between The Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Note that the camera is zoomed in pretty far. Isn't Sacre Coeur beautiful up on the hill out there? In the very far bottom left you can see part of the Musée d'Orsay, and directly across the Seine is the Jardin of Tuileries connecting the Place de La Concorde and The Louvre. The Louvre is hugantimungous and goes for quite a ways off to the left (East). The famous pyramid is between the two wings of the building. Unlike the Smithsonian which is a whole bunch of pretty big buildings, The Louvre is one GIANT building that was built with the intention of getting tourists lost inside for days on end. I promise I'll get a bette picture next time I get on top of Montparnasse.

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