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48 Rue de Groussay, Rambouillet Haute Vallée de Chevreuse, Paris 01 34 83 00 67 |
Traditional Price: $$ Location: Haute Vallée de Chevreuse |
The menu at this traditional restaurant with a rustic dining room features foie gras, game, and homemade terrines.
The Axe royal, the “Royal Axis”, which leads from the Louvre up the Champs-Élysées to the large Arc de Triomphe – through the smaller Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and past the obelisk in Place de la Concorde – used to start at the central pavillion of the Tuilieries Palace which marked the eastern limit of the Jardin des Tuileries. This palace was destroyed in a fire in 1871. The ruins were demolished in 1882, thus extending the Tuilerie gardens towards the Louvre.
From the south side of the magnificent bridge Pont Alexandre III which was part of the architectural complex of the World Exhibition of 1900, the spacious Esplanade des Invalides leads to the Hôtel des Invalides. This monumental structure, the façade of which is 380 meters wide, was begun in 1670 and only three years later dedicated for its task: up to 6000 veterans and war-disabled could be accommodated here.
Paris is among the foremost cultural cities of the world, and a wildly popular tourist destination that draws over 30 million visitors each year. It is virtually synonymous with haute couture and haute cuisine, and literally bursting with iconic landmarks and world-famous institutions and parks.
Versailles, just to the south of Paris, is the site of Louis XIV’s gargantuan folly. From 1661 onwards the Sun King began to convert the small hunting lodge in the southwest of Paris into an enormous residence, which other royal houses of Europe then tried to imitate. The planning of the project was entrusted to the best master builders of the nation, the architect Louis Le Vau, the painter Charles Le Brun and the landscape gardener André Le Nôtre.
