Curiosities of Europe, part III !!

Posted in Europe, France, Paris

Looking at my vault, found some older pictures on paper and took my electronic camera to take picture of the pictures and use them in my blog. This allows me to show in my blog places not shown or pics with new angles of places shown in the blog. Nostalgia sets in and here I go , Therefore, here is my take on curiosities of Europe, Part III !! Hope you enjoy the post as I,

The Palace of ARBED at Avenue de la Liberté Haut Ville, Luxembourg Ville was the former home of Arcelor. In the late 1970s ARBED (Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange) SA was Luxembourg’s only remaining steelmaker. In 18 février 2002 ARBED merged with the Spanish company Aceralia and the French company Usinor to form Arcelor, which subsequently joined Mittal to create ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel company at the time of its formation.

Luxembourg palais arbed later arcelor TheColonnade du Louvre constitutes the eastern facade of the Louvre Palace (Sully wing now Louvre museum). It was built between 1667 and 1670 and is considered one of the masterpieces of French classicism. Despite its better known name of the Colonnade Perrault, it still poses a problem of attribution, its design being the fruit of multiple influences, including those of: Louis Le Vau, architect to the king, Charles Le Brun, first painter to the king, and Claude Perrault, architect. We must therefore see it as a mixture of various inspirations between which Louis XIV had chosen the colonnade,

Paris mus Louvre colonnade du Louvre or Perrault

Located next to the Saint Germain l’Auxerrois Church, the belfry, placed between the City/town hall and the church, and part of the Paris 1éme or now Paris Centre district, The construction of the belfry was undertaken in 1858 on the plans of Théodore Ballu who had just restored, from 1852 to 1855, the Saint-Jacques tower. In the Flamboyant Gothic style ,often mistaken for the church tower ! connected on either side to the two buildings by two doors of the same style giving access to the square that separates them, it measures 38 meters in height, and consists of four unequal floors. A turret placed on the rear facade contains the spiral staircase. The belfry is decorated with gargoyles, pilasters, flying buttresses, and ogival bays with mullions. On the first floor there are the statues of the bishops Saint Germain l’Auxerrois, Saint Landry, Saint Denis and the kings Childebert, Clovis, Pépin le Bref, Philippe Auguste, Saint Louis, Hugues Capet, Charlemagne and Dagobert. Awesome !

Paris mairie 1éme de Paris belltower next to the ch st germain l'auxerrois

There you go folks, a walk of nostalgia from my very earlier trips to and within Europe. The wonders of Europe that still rings many nice memories to my mind on each stretch of meter I take on it. Again, hope you enjoy the post on the curiosities of Europe, part III !! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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