France - tourist attractions (page 9)

	Lapin Agile	Lapin Agile is a cabaret in the city of Paris. Originally called "Cabaret des Assassins" because the tradition relates that the cabaret received this name because a band of assassins broke in and killed the owner's son. The cabaret was more than twenty years old when, in 1875, the artist Andre Gill...
	La Géode	La Géode is an Omnimax theatre in the Parc de la Villette at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris. It opened on May 6, 1985. It is fitted with the only 12.1 sound system in the world, designed by Cabasse. After a similar venue located in La Défense closed in 2001, La Géode became the onl...
	Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie	The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie is the biggest science museum in Europe. It is located in Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it is at the heart of the Cultural Center of Science, Technology and Industry (CCSTI), a center promoting science and science culture. About five million people vi...
	Nice Observatory	The Observatoire de Nice (Nice Observatory) is an astronomical observatory located in Nice, France on the summit of Mont Gros. The observatory was initiated in 1879 by the banker Raphaël Bischoffsheim. The architect was Charles Garnier, and Gustave Eiffel designed the main dome. The 77-cm (30.3-inch...
	Nice Côte d'Azur Airport	Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (Aéroport Nice Côte d'Azur, code IATA: NCE, ICAO: LFMN) is an airport located 3.2 NM (5.9 km; 3.7 mi) southwest of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. The airport is positioned 7 km (4 mi) west of the city centre, and is the principal port of arrival for pas...
	Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Nice	The St Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, Nice ( Cathédrale Orthodoxe Saint-Nicolas de Nice ) is a Christian Orthodox cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the city of Nice. Opened in 1912, thanks to the generosity of Russia 's Tsar Nicholas II, it is the largest Orthodox cathedral in W...
	Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil	The Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil is a botanical garden set within a major greenhouse complex located at the southern edge of the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement, with entry at 1 avenue Gordon-Bennett, Paris, France. The site first served as a botanical garden in 1761 under Louis XV. Today...
	Paris Catacombs	The Paris Catacombs (Catacombes de Paris) is an underground ossuary, a maze of tunnels and crypts underneath the city of Paris, where Parisians had been burying the dead for almost 30 years. The catacombs are located near the Place Denfert-Rochereau, which was the former city gate. They hold the ske...
	Place des Victoires	The Place des Victoires is a circular square located northeast of the Palais Royal on the boarder of the 1st and 2nd arrondissement of Paris. The square is the meeting place of six streets: Rue de la Feuillade, Rue Vide Gousset, Rue d'Aboukir, Rue Étienne Marcel, Rue Croix des Petits Champs, and Rue...
	Place du Tertre	The Place du Tertre is a square located in the elevated quarter of Montmarte in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, close to the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile. Each day numerous artists set up their easels here, thus reminding everyone of the role this place used to play in the past w...