Pairs, famous for romance, fashion, the arts, and soccer. Take a cruise on the Seine river, do some shopping, hit a museum or two, wander the streets, visit a cafe, and be sure to see a soccer or rugby match in the 80,000-seat Stade de France.
Paris Saint-Germain FC is the leading soccer team while the rugby union club Stade Francais is also popular. The basketball team Paris Basket Racing is another option although who goes to Paris for the basketball?
Team History
Paris Saint-Germain, or PSG, as they are popularly known, are a French football club who play in Ligue 1, the highest football league in France. Unlike some of their other older rivals, one only has to turn the clock back by a few decades to go back to the time PSG came into existence [...]
Located at the highest point on the sacred hill of Montmartre, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart stands approximately 600 feet above the city of Paris, France. The Basilica, a place of pilgrimage, is said to have been inspired by a vision of Archbishop Guibert in 1872 as a dedication to [...]
The Tuileries Gardens are bounded by the Louvre to the east, the Seine on the south, the Place de la Concorde to the west, and the Rue de Rivoli on the north. This wide courtyard expanse is a part of the historical axis or triumphal way that includes the Champs Élysées [...]
Located in the 5th arrondissement on the Left Bank of the Seine, the Panthéon dominates the view of Paris from a district known as the Latin Quartiere that includes the Sorbonne and the Collége of France. During the siege of Metz in 1744 and while in poor health, Louis XV planned [...]
Originally designed by the Danish architect, Otto von Spreckelsen, and finished by French architect Andreu after Spreckelsen’s death, the Grande Arche is considered a masterpiece of concrete, Italian marble, and colored glass. Envisioned by French president Mitterand as a 20th century triumphal arch, this modern structure is actually a three-dimensional [...]
Located on the left bank (Rive Gauche) of the Seine across from the Tuileries Gardens, the Musée d’Orsay was first housed in the Orsay railway station as a part of the Worlds Fair of 1900. At the time, the station and the hotel, designed by Victor Laloux, were quite modern with [...]
The Place de l’Étoile is the familiar name for the Place Charles de Gaulle, renamed at the time of his presidency in 1970. Situated in the middle of the axe historique of Paris, the 787’ star square, with the Arc de Triomphe in the center, is the main junction of 12 [...]