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La Défense
A Travel Blog entry by carpeau from Paris, France
... on se rappelle encore et on se dirige au tél''phone et finalement Pierre a dit: "Ok, je vous vois!" On est allé au restaurant "La Renaissance" parce qu'il y avait de beaux sièges bien moëlleux pour mes fesses. J'ai pris une "club" au foie gras. Pas ...
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La Defense - Broken Camera - Louvre Entrance
A Travel Blog entry by aaronm58 from Paris, France
... this with a foul taste in my mouth. So we left as a group at 9:00 am & headed for our first stop of the morning - La Defense...which lies at the end of one of Paris' main boulevards - The Champs-Elysees (I have included a map of Paris in my picture ...
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Granada y La Alhambra
A Travel Blog entry by megmary from Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands
... it was fat, but because she was the mastermind behind the reign. Yes, that's right Isabel. Thank you to that team of Italian renaissance artists who decided to put in this little tid-bit. Gina Walker would have ate this up!!! (Gina is my women's ...
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c'est la vie
A Travel Blog entry by julietam from Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
... era at the bottom levels and modern art at the highest. My favorite era was the fifth floor which featured medieval and renaissance art. One painting in particular stood out among the rest, although it was not the star of the exhibit (that title belongs ...
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"We'll always have Paris."
A Travel Blog entry by elee2000 from Paris, France
... . Seeing the Champs Elysees at night with its streams of traffic and turning the other way and seeing aglow the Grand Arche of La Defense in the distance, but all without the noise at street level made it feel like looking at a post card, a great ...
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Paris... Euro Trip 2011, Part 1
A Travel Blog entry by jazzgal from Paris, Île-de-France, France
... stopped at a café for a vino and met Simon, a very nice actor who chatted me up. Finally, seriously pooped I headed back to La Defense Sept. 14 The next day I had a coffee date with another new friend, Alex Dutil and his friend Pascal…. They ...
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Andalucía
A Travel Blog entry by gaellelc from Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain
... , chaussures fermées, chemise, veste fermée (!!), gants (!!!) et foulard (!!!!!) vert. Je crois que je vais fonder une Association pour la Defense des Hôtesses dans les Pays Chauds. Non mais, c'est de la maltraitance! A leur place je serais déjà ...
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Ahhh Paris, je t'adore!
A Travel Blog entry by planet_wylie from Paris, Île-de-France, France
... from the west, "the way to enter Paris" according to Monique, we saw modern architecture in the slightly removed area called La Defense. The Grande Arche is a large square structure, wide enough for a plane to fly through. This area is ...
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Paris Day 2
A Travel Blog entry by bbulk from Paris, France
... a work of art unto itself? Will they get lost? I fly through the Davids and the Géricaults to find the Italian Renaissance art. It's slightly less crowded, and just as pleasant. I like to try to decipher all the religious and mythological symbolism ...
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Paris- bittersweet city
A Travel Blog entry by leezak from Paris, Île-de-France, France
... . He said no, and sent me away. Free bracelet! After that we went way out of the center of Paris to an area called La Defense. Its an area with modern buildings and towers. Not so exciting. We spent a couple hours exploring that area and then went back ...
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Damn you, Matisse. You and your stupid paintings!
A Travel Blog entry by ragenrich from Nice, Provence, France
... fragile agreements with their larger and stronger neighbors. Therefore, while other European sovereigns were building luxurious, modern Renaissance and Baroque palaces, politics and common sense demanded that the palace of the Monaco rulers be fortified; ...
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites
A Travel Blog entry by exploreamerica from UNESCO World Heritage Sites, United States
... key role in the history of northern Europe in the 16th-18th centuries. Work began on the construction of this outstanding Renaissance castle in 1574, and its defences were reinforced according to the canons of the period's military architecture in the ...
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Agriturismos everywhere and not a place to sleep
A Travel Blog entry by shiandgabe from Hill Towns, and Pisa, Italy
... and column decor were pieced in with everything else on the exterior. We have heard it said here that the definition of Renaissance is "To recycle". Gabe's thoughts- I really enjoyed seeing Giambologna's alter, and Galileo's chandelier. It was hard to ...
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Medieval villages
A Travel Blog entry by tommays from Siena, Tuscany, Italy
... the church. During this time only the priest spoke to God and man was truly kept in the dark. The Renaissance would change that. Bagno Vignoni It seems the hot-springs of Bagno Vignoni were well known during the Etruscan epoch but it ...
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Tommy Boy
A Travel Blog entry by david_chung from Vang Vieng, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
... and illustrations just providing cover fire for the fact that his theory (which is that the Chinese kicked off the Italian Renaissance -- long story) is pure conjecture based on circumstantial evidence. There's no hard proof of his central findings, ...
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Renaissance Paris La Defense Hotel
60 Jardin de Valmy, Boulevard Circulaire, Sortie 7, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Magnifique! from anonymous I stayed at the Renaissance La Defense during a short weekend in Paris while in Europe on business. I had a constrained budget but I have high standards for hotels so I would usually choose comfort over location ...
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