Ile de la Cite is at the heart of Paris and has many famous and sentimental places. The focal point of the island is the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Some other places on the island are Conciergerie, Square Jean XXIII, and Bertie's CupCakery. Throughout the time it has stayed an important military and political center. Ile de la Cité is very organized and well cared for, so it is considered prime real estate. Because it is a popular tourist and residential place this island has many bridges.
Notre-Dame Cathedral was dedicated to the mother of God. The building took about 200 years to construct. They built it in 1163 during the reign of King Louis VII, and it was completed in 1345. The Notre-Dame Cathedral has had glorious and tragic historical moments like the crowning of Henry VI of England, just inside the cathedral in 1431. Once, the Cathedral was in a stage of total disrepair. It was almost demolished, but was saved by a Napoleon who later became Emperor in 1804 inside the Cathedral.
Bobbie Maker moved here from America with her husband and started Bertie's CupCakery. She knew only a little french but started a business anyway. She transformed an unused corner of a restaurant on Île de la Cité into a cupcake shop. Her cupcake shop was briefly ranked as the third-best restaurant in Paris on TripAdvisor this summer
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Hundreds of prisoners were taken from the Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine at several locations around Paris. The wealthier you were the better accommodations you got because you had to pay for furniture and other things. At one point Marie Antoinette was there. Her cell was converted into a chapel dedicated to her memory. She was eventually hung on a guillotine. She had one of the best rooms because she was Queen of France for a short time. In the 19th century, the Conciergerie still continued to be used as a prison for high-value prisoners
A guillotine is a decapitation device that quickly chops off it’s victims head in the blink of an eye. According to document F, About 16,000 people were believed to have died at the hands of it. No matter how small or petty a crime was, people would have been executed for it. Even Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI, the leaders of France before the Revolution, were decapitated by one, as was the leader of the Reign of Terror, Maximilien Robespierre. Another method to weed out the counter revolutionaries was a network of spies that watched out for anyone who spoke out against the government, “A careless word of criticism spoken against the government could put one in prison or worse” (Document E). The punishment for a crime as small as ththis was more often than not
According to the official website for St. Patrick's Cathedral, the cathedral was first opened in 1879, after it had begun construction in 1858. Archbishop John Hughes announced his idea of building a “new” St. Patricks Cathedral over one hundred fifty years ago. The purpose of building the new cathedral in the Archbishop's eyes was to build a cathedral that was worthy of the mass numbers of catholics in the area, their intelligence, and wealth as a community. Archbishop Hughes believed that one day, this cathedral would be the “heart of the city.” He also believed that nothing would be able to divert the construction of this soon-to-be gothic cathedral. In October and November of 1878, the Great Cathedral Fair was held for a few weeks. Hughes' successor, John McCloskey became head of the dedication of the Cathedral. The architect responsible for building this cathedral was James Renwick. In 1853, he was hired to build this cathedral with a budget of only $850,000, not including the altars, furnishings for chapels, organs and other furniture. The stone that Renwick chose to use for the cathedral was white marble.
The cathedral that he wanted to build was supposed to be dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was because of new architectural techniques that made it possible for him to build a larger cathedral, and therefore, decided to tear down the old one. However, it wasn’t just his idea to tear down the old cathedral, and build a new one. King Louis VII, who was his former classmate, encouraged Maurice de Sully to make this decision. (Cathédrale Notre Dame De Paris) Three years after Maurice de Sully became the bishop in Paris - and had demolished the cathedral that was dedicated to St Etienne - the first stone was laid to the new cathedral. When the first stone was laid in 1163. However, it took many years to build the Notre Dame cathedral, more exact it took 182 years. Therefore, Maurice de Sully wasn’t alive at the time when the Notre Dame was finished. The cathedral was finished in 1345, and Maurice de Sully passed away in
...st powerful symbols of the French Revolution and killed an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 people during the Reign of Terror. (Doc F) The guillotine was a sharp, angled blade that killed quickly the most deadly and feared method of invoking fear during the revolution. (Doc F) These methods; however, became too extreme and the deaths of the incident was not justified.
Buddy Valastro once said, “No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude.” I will be talking about Buddy Valastro’s family background, what inspired him to get into baking, and about his pastry specialty, which are cakes.
The Sainte Chapelle sparkles like a rare jewel that has magnificent architecture and decoration; the stain glass windows seem to be inside of a jewel case. The many jewels seem to change color every hour with the sunlight rays bouncing back and forth. “The founder, King Louis IX, the future St. Louis, who had it built to house the Holy Relics of the Passion, today dispersed” (Finance 1). The spire has statues of Christ’s apostles at the base of the spire and has angles decorated above the apostles. The Sainte Chapelle, the lower chapel was devoted to the Virgin Mary, and reserved for the administration staff. The upper chapel was reserved for the King and his family; the religious relics connected to Jesus Christ were kept in the upper chapel. In 1690, the flood damaged the lower chapel, and the fire in 1776 caused more damage, then the Revolution further damaged the Sainte Chapelle. The restoration started around 1840 and was completed in the middle of the nineteenth century to exhibit the original thirteen-century medieval architecture. King Louis IX founded the Sainte Chapelle along with the Spire to hold the religious relics connected to Jesus Christ, the lower chapel was for the palace staff, and the upper chapel was reserved for the king.
In 1241, King Louis IX was 27 years old, when he decided to build the Sainte Chapelle to house his great treasures – the relics of Christ. In the thirteenth century, the kingdom of France was a prosperous nation in wealth and power. The popular and well-known university, Notre dame was located in Paris that occupied over 200,000 students from many different cultures. “In 1237, the new Franc Emperor of the East, Baudoin II de Dourtenay, was faced by heavy expenses of a mainly military nature; he tried to meet these by selling the Relics of the Passion that were preserved in Byzantium and which he had already partly pledged to the Venetians” (Finance 4). In 1239, Louis bought from him the Holy Crown of Thorns, and two years later bought from him fragments of the True Cross and other relics connected to Christ. King Louis IX was a model for all Christian kings, and this reaffirmed his devotion to Christ, made his kingdom shine in western Christianity, and supported the empire of France. “It is probable that from this date onwards the king thought of building a monumental reliquary to house the precious relics in a dignified manner within the palace precincts, in a similar fashion of the Christian Emperors of the East” (Finance 5). The Sainte Chapelle sparkles like a rare jewel that has magnificent architecture and decoration; the stain glass windows seem to be inside of a jewel case. The many jewels seem to change color every hour with the sunlight rays bouncing back and forth. “The founder, King Louis IX, the future St. Louis, who had it built to house the Holy Relics of the Passion, today dispersed” (Finance 1). The spire has statues of Christ’s apostles at the base of the spire and has angles decorated above the apostles. The ...
Do you think its fair that players are credited for what they do, when cheating the game? Mark McGwire excelled at the game of baseball and got credit for all of his accomplishments, yet he cheated the game and used steroids. Babe Ruth, considered one of the greatest baseball players to play the game of baseball, who never cheated and set a great example for all who play baseball. Baseball has drastically changed over the years, especially in the cheating scandals of steroids; Babe Ruth set a great example by excelling in the sport and doing it clean, contrasting with Mark McGwire. Their existence shows how society accepted honesty and doing it the clean way in Babe’s era and how society accepts the scandals and dishonesty of Mark’s era.
Some examples of famous artifacts from Saint Michael's include the Pillar of Christ and the Bronze Doors. Best of all however, the church's clean design makes it unique yet comfortable. Saint Michael's took 21 years to build. The church's construction began in the year 1010 and was finally finished many years later in 1031 ("Saint Michael's Church"). Considering its size, that's an amazing feat because it was built using techniques that are extremely old.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, in London, England, was designed by architect Sir Christopher Wren. Approval of this most significant architectural project took six years just for the plan. Construction, which began in 1675, took thirty-five years until finally complete in 1710. It was built to replace a church that had been leveled by the Great Fire of 1666. St. Paul's is the largest cathedral in England, and said to be Wren's masterpiece. He brought a range of new forms, and architectural combination into English architecture. Masonry, brick, timber, and cut stone were used to form the structure of the cathedral. St. Paul’s Cathedral has been one of the main socially significant buildings in London. Cathedrals all around, have always played a large role in the communities they serve. Their fundamental purpose is to bring people closer to God, but over the centuries they have served as a focal point for trade, as a stronghold and a place of safety in times of war, and as immense status symbols. The functions, of a cathedral, take on an additional significance for St Paul's, because it’s known as the cathedral of the capital city and, of the nation. The present building is also the first cathedral to have been built since the creation of the Church of England in 1534, when religion was brought under the direct control of the monarch. This quote from Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage really shows the significance the Church has made in England. “St Paul's Cathedral is the internationally recognized signature of London and the capital's most important historic and architectural focal point. Only St Paul's and the Palace of Westminster are protected by strategic views but the proposed tower disregards this legal protection and the significance of the Cathedral as the icon of London.” The West Front, which faces the heart of the City of London, is an iconic image with great national significance. It is through the famous West Doors that so many British monarchs and distinguished figures have entered the Cathedral. The nation’s “best-loved” church, St Paul’s has hosted some of the most important commemorative events in British history. In recent years the memorial service for the victims of 9/11, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the Queen Mother’s 100th birthday. Also, it was where the funeral services of Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, and Winston Churchi...
The Eiffel tower was constructed by a bridge builder named Alexander Gustave Eiffel with the engineers Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, and architect Stephen Sauvestre on March 31, 1889. They started building the Eiffel tower on January 26, 1887. Alexander Gustave Eiffel have previously worked on west train stations and the interior of the Statue of Liberty also. In 1889, Paris hosted a World’s Fair to the 100 year anniversary of the French Revolution. The tower opened to public in May 1889. It took two years, two months and five days to build the Eiffel tower. The Eiffel tower is nicknamed by the French “La Dame De Fer” meaning the iron lady. The Eiffel tower was the tallest structure built until the Chrysler building was built in New York in 1930. The Eiffel tower weighed 9,700 tons in 1889, but gained 1,300 tons over the year from concrete
Around the year of 995 the Lindisfarne monks founded the Durham Cathedral after they had fled their homes when the Danish Vikings came raiding their homelands. The original building on the site had been torn down and the present one today was built in the year of 1093. Over the years Galilee Chapel, Western Towers, Chapel of the Nine Alters and then the central tower was rebuilt in 1465 and lasted until 1490. In the year of 1104 St. Cuthbert had passed away and found to be in great condition as they had believed he was embalmed.
The first major construction on the island started in the year 1020 and was completed in 1135. In time structural problems arose with the building, therefore in 1170 Abbot Robert de Toringy started building a new facade on the side of the church.
Located right on The Strip, The Paris Hotel is truly one of the most easily recognizable resorts of this city. In the front one can see a scale model of the Eiffel Tower and a few steps from there would take the visitors to a superb recreation of the Paris Opera House. On the top of this property there is a fake hot balloon illuminated with colourful lights.
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