Posts Tagged "Parc Monceau"

champs elyseesWhich is the most popular avenue in the whole France? The answer is clear. It is Les Champs-Elysées which is in the 8th Paris district. Actually, this area is full of both places of interest and places of entertainment. There are Place de la Concorde, Place de la Madeleine, the Presidential Élysée, luxury stores and restaurants, long French streets and impetuous romantic atmosphere. All in all, this district is a spot of modern rich life and fashion Paris.

Les Champs-Elysées is possibly one of the most beautiful and one of the richest avenue not only in France but in the whole world. Sometimes you can see more designer boutiques and cafés than tourists and visitors walking across them. It’s a major commercial center in Paris.

Concerning restaurants, we would counsel you to visit Plaza Athénée which is the place for connoisseurs of French wine.
For those who don’t what to buy something, it’d be better to go to Parc de Monceau or to Quartier Monceau with a famous flower market in.
Evening walking should pass near Arc de Triomphe. Marvelous decoration with thousands of light bulbs turns this avenue into the small City of Light.

parc monceauThis district is conventionally divided into 3 areas. Working-class in the northern part, where the famous Place de Clichy is, upper-class in the southern area with Avenue des Ternes and Marché Poncelet and the former independent village of Batignolles between them, right in the center.

The 17th district also hosts the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, the Palais des Congrès of Paris, which is a great exhibition center with the skyscraper Concorde Lafayette hotel.

There is Parc Monceau, as well, in its perfect English-style architecture and French-garden styles. But honestly, this park is so popular thanks to an active free access Wi-Fi area. After relaxing in the park finish your sightseeing tour by the outstanding Arc de Triomphe.