A quick summary for the remaining route…

Continued from Part Two, we walked across River Seine from Louvre Museum and came to Institude de France. Then, we headed to Notre Dame to take some photo, and walked to the other side of River Seine. Ok, then from there we walked all the way back to the hotel using the same route. Check out the map below (for the part from Louvre Museum to Notre Dame)

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River Seine

The Seine (French: La Seine, pronounced: [la sɛn]) is a slow-flowing major river and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France and famous as a romantic backdrop in photographs of Paris, France. It is also a tourist attraction, with excursion boats offering sightseeing tours of the Rive Droite and Rive Gauche within the city of Paris. It terminates in the Bay of the Seine region of the English Channel and is navigable by ocean-going vessels for about ten percent of its length, as far as Rouen, 120 km (75 miles) from the sea, while over sixty percent of its length, as far as Burgundy near the Swiss Alps, is negotiable by commercial riverboats and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating. (from Wikipedia)

To me, this is the soul of the city Paris, and I really love this river. I had a good walk along the river bank…Hope that I can back to here one day and enjoy my meal here!!! :cool:

 

Institut de France

I only know this is a French leanred society through Wikipedia….Nothing much, just posed and take a photo here. :blush:

(Adapted from http://www.naturepixel.com/institut_france_pont_arts.jpg)

Notre Dame

This is one of the famous landmark in Paris. It is also the cathedral of the Catholic  archdiocese of Paris.

Timeline of construction

    * 1160 Maurice de Sully (named Bishop of Paris), orders the original cathedral to be demolished.
    * 1163 Cornerstone laid for Notre Dame de Paris—construction begins.
    * 1182 Apse and choir completed.
    * 1196 Bishop Maurice de Sully dies.
    * c.1200 Work begins on western façade.
    * 1208 Bishop Eudes de Sully dies. Nave vaults nearing completion.
    * 1225 Western façade completed.
    * 1250 Western towers and north rose window completed.
    * c.1245–1260s Transepts remodelled in the Rayonnant style by Jean de Chelles then Pierre de Montreuil
    * 1250–1345 Remaining elements completed

 

Then, we took a break and enjoyed our afternoon tea in Haagen Dazs.

Randomly took some candid shots on our way back…

Louvre Museum at night (actually just around 6.00pm)

Visited a stall at the square and bought a choc-waffle :happy:

Yummy Yummy!!!

Avenue des Champs-Élysées (fascinating!!!)

Frozen pond with lights decoration…

I remembered it was freezing cold that day and the temperature was around 2 °C, but feels like –10 °C. This also explained why we couldn’t take much photo because it was too cold… :cwy:

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