Posts Tagged "L’Hotel des Invalides"

tour eiffelWell, 7th district is known by even those people who have never been to France. It is exactly Eiffel Tower that brings such a big popularity to this area.

But, unfortunately, only less of tourists really know that this district is full of other historical buildings and sights. For example, the Trocadero panorama with beautiful gardens and a long pool that decorated with stone statues and unique illuminated fountains. Also former train station that was rebuilt into a big impressionist gallery named Musée d’Orsay where you can see the artworks of modern painters and also masters such as Degas, Lautrec and Van Gogh. L’Hotel des Invalides that now is a Napoleon’s burial site and museum shelter placed here as well. And finally, let’s finish with the French National Assembly, and the Palais de Chaillot which figures in such films as “28 Weeks Later” and “Rush Hour 3”.