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3 Ducks Hostel
The Three Ducks Hostel is open all year round. Located not far from the famous " Eiffel Tower" an few more minutes to the major touristic sights. The large interior courtyard, where you can have breakfast or simply hang out, offers a friendly atmosphere. Our prices, among the most attractive in Paris, are specially adapted to the budgets of travellers ...
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Aloha Hostel
Centrally located, the hostel is within easy walking distance of Paris' most famous sights: The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysées, The Musée Rodin, The Musée des Armées and the lively Boulevard Montparnasse. And with a Metro station only a stone's throw away from our door the rest of this fascinating city is yours to discover ...
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Absolute Paris Hostel
The Absolute Paris is ideally located, just in front of the canal St Martin. Singles, doubles, triples and dorms, for the best
price, Ideally located, just in front of the canal St Martin, in the hear of one of the trendiest district of Paris, the Absolute Paris will welcome you and will make you stay unforgettable
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Auberge Jeunesse Jules Ferry
Located along the Saint Martin Channel, mythical site by excellence with its "Hotel of the North" which offers to the travelers the most romantic site of the capital,
Within a stone structure, with a splendid sight of Sacre Coeur, your room is already a memory of Paris
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Auberge Internationale des Jeunes
We are proud to present to you the Auberge Internationale des Jeunes. During your visit in Paris, you will certainly be looking for a nice and comfortable place to stay. Our hostel represents the best alternative for young travellers, as it combines an excellent location, a good quality lodging ...
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Bureau Voyage Jeunesse Louvre
BVJ Louvre is the first youth hostel in Paris neighboring the Louvre Museum, the Royal Palace, and the Garden of Halles. BVJ Louvre has an exceptional location: all Paris is at your disposal in less than 30 minutes ...
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Blue
Planet
Family operated business, ensuring personal attention, 24 hour staffing, and video cameras in all common areas, no curfew, storage room, tourist information, free maps
Paris Métro bus, next the hostel Laundry & Groceries, supermarket ...
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Caulaincourt Square Hostel
When you get in the hotel Caulaincourt Square you will feel the unforgettable period who was "Bohemia". It was in this neighborhood the meeting point of well known artists like Picasso, Modigliani, Brancusi, Juan Gris, Appolinaire, etc ...
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Centre International de Sejour de Paris
The Centre International de Séjour de Paris, which is located in the heart of Paris, offers an entire range of services, from accommodation and hire of meeting rooms to various on-site restaurant facilities. You will find everything you need to make your stay successful, whether you come alone, as a family or with a group ...
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Friends Hostel
Friend's Hostel is a newly renovated hostel for travellers, backpackers and students. It is open 24 hours with no curfew and no lock-out time. Supermarkets, bakeries and laundromats are all located near by, We offer internet access and fax service as well as a safety deposit box ...
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Le Montclair Montmartre
Located at the back of the Montmartre Hill, our Hostel allows you to be only a few blocks away from the Sacred Heart Chapel, but far away from the crowds that gather on its front stairs. Chilling out in our fully re-designed lobby area will help you planning your walking
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Le Village Hostel
We are in the perfect area renowned for attracting artists and poets from all over the World with its unique charm and atmosphere. We have various accommodation available and facilities to suit all guests whether they are tourists, students or travellers. We have budget accommodation ...
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Peace & Love Hostel
We have a pub where guests can relax and enjoy cheap beer and cocktails. We also have a TV aswell as a telephone, fax, and Internet access. There is a kitchen that is fully equipped so that you can prepare your own meals. There is a range of rooms available from double to triple to
dorms ...
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Woodstock Hostel
Often called 'your home away from home' we are well known for our laid back, warm and friendly atmosphere and colourful and clean accommodation. We have unbeatable prices on either double rooms or dorms, both are spacious with pleasant decoration ...
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Young & Happy Hostel
Young & Happy Hostel is located in the heart of the Latin Quarter, known worldwide for its student life in the numerous cafés, bars and restaurants, parks and galleries. Its central situation means you are never far from the most famous sights such as Notre Dame Cathedral and more ...
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Maubuisson
A 13th century monistary, nicely refurbished as a hostel and hotel. Make your reservation far in advance. Same ownership as Fauconnier and Fourcy ...
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Paris Clichy
Youth Hostel of 338 beds, in the rooms of 2 to 6 beds, it accomodates groups and individual,
Youth Hostel of 338 beds, in the rooms of 2 to 6 beds, it accommodates
groups and individual ...
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Cite des Sciences
At 200m of Paris and Geode, the YH of the Pre Saint Gervais is in a modern building, and proposes the hostellers, all the necessary services ...
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Paris is the capital city of France. It is situated on the River Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region ("Region Parisienne"). Paris has an estimated population of 2,153,600 inhabitants within city limits (2005
est.). The Paris urban area has a population of 9.93 million; a vast commuter belt around the same completes the Paris "aire urbaine" (roughly: "metropolitan area") that, with its population of 11.5
million, is one of the most populated areas of its kind in Europe. The Paris region (Île-de-France) is France's foremost centre of economic activity. With €478.7 billion (US$595.3 billion), it produced more than a quarter of the gross domestic product (GDP) of France in
2005. With La Defense, the largest purpose built business district in Europe, it hosts the head offices of almost half of the major French companies, as well as the headquarters of ten of the world's 100 largest
companies. Paris also hosts many international organizations such as UNESCO, the OECD, the ICC, or the informal Paris Club. It is regarded as one of the 4 major global cities.
Paris' strategic location at a crossroads between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made it one of France's principal cities by the 10th century, rich with Royal palaces and demurs, wealthy Abbeys and a cathedral; by the 12th century Paris had become one of Europe's foremost centres of learning and the arts. Today, Paris is an influential centre in politics, fashion, business, arts and science. The city serves as an important hub of intercontinental transportation and is home to some of the most prominent universities, sport events, opera companies and
museums, making it an attraction for over 30 million foreign visitors per year.
Three of the most famous Parisian landmarks are the twelfth century cathedral Notre Dame de Paris on the Île de la Cité, the nineteenth century Eiffel Tower, and the Napoleonic Arc de Triomphe. The Eiffel Tower was a "temporary" construction by Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Universal Exposition but the tower was never dismantled and is now an enduring symbol of Paris. It is visible from many parts of the city as are the Tour Montparnasse skyscraper and the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur on the Montmartre hill. The Historical axis is a line of monuments, buildings and thoroughfares that run in a roughly straight line from the city centre westwards: the line of monuments begins with the Louvre and continues through the Tuileries Gardens, the Champs-Elysées and the Arc de Triomphe centred in the Place de l'Étoile circus. From the 1960s the line was prolonged even further west to the La Défense business district dominated by square-shaped triumphal Grande Arche of its own; this district hosts most of the tallest skyscrapers in the Paris urban area.
The Invalides museum is the burial place for many great French soldiers, including Napoleon, and the Panthéon church is where many of France's illustrious men and women are buried. The former Conciergerie prison held some prominent ancien régime members before their deaths during the French Revolution. Another symbol of the Revolution are the two Statues of Liberty located on the Île des Cygnes on the Seine and in the Luxembourg Garden. A larger version of the statues was sent as a gift from France to the United States in 1886 and now stands in New York City harbour. The Palais Garnier built in the later Second Empire period, houses the Paris Opera and the Paris Opera Ballet, while the former palace of the Louvre now houses one of the most famous museums in the world. The Sorbonne is the most famous part of the University of Paris and is based in the centre of the Latin Quarter. Apart from Notre Dame de Paris, there are several other ecclesiastical masterpieces including the Gothic thirteenth century Sainte-Chapelle palace chapel and the Église de la Madeleine.
The Louvre is one of the largest and most famous museums, housing many works of art, including the Mona Lisa (La Joconde) and the Venus de Milo statue. Works by Pablo Picasso and Rodin are found in Musée Picasso and Musée Rodin respectively, while the artistic community of Montparnasse is chronicled at the Musée du Montparnasse. Starkly apparent with its service-pipe exterior, the Centre Georges Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, houses the Musée National d'Art Moderne. Lastly, art and artifacts from the Middle Ages and Impressionist eras are kept in Musée Cluny and Musée d'Orsay respectively, the former with the prized tapestry cycle The Lady and the Unicorn.
Paris had always been a destination for traders, students and those on religious pilgrimages, but its 'tourism' in the proper sense of the term began on a large scale only with the appearance of rail travel, namely from state organisation of France's rail network from 1848. One of Paris' first 'mass' attractions drawing international interest were, from 1855, the above-mentioned Expositions Universelles that would bring Paris many new monuments, namely the Eiffel tower from 1889. These, in addition to the Capital's 2nd Empire embellishments, did much to make the city itself the attraction it is today. Paris' museums and monuments are by far its highest-esteemed attractions, and tourist interest has been nothing but a benefit to these; tourism has even motivated both city and State to create new ones. The city's most prized museum, the Louvre, sees over 6 million visitors a year. Paris' cathedrals are another main attraction: its Notre-Dame cathedral and Sacré-Coeur basilica receive 12 million and 8 million visitors respectively. The Eiffel tower, by far Paris' most famous monument, averages over 6 million visitors per year. Disneyland Resort Paris is a major tourist attraction not only for visitors to Paris, but to Europe as well, with 12.4 million visitors in 2004. Many of Paris' once-popular local establishments have metamorphised into a parody of French culture, in a form catering to the tastes and expectations of tourist capital. The Moulin Rouge cabaret-dancehall, for example, is a staged dinner theatre spectacle, a dance display that was once but one aspect of the cabaret's former atmosphere. All of the establishment's former social or cultural elements, such as its ballrooms and gardens, are gone today. Much of Paris' hotel, restaurant and night entertainment trades have become heavily dependent on tourism, with results not always positive for Parisian culture.
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