FACTS ABOUT PARIS

France is credited to be the largest country in Western Europe having 5,50,000 Square kilometers of area. Paris being the capital city of France and a famous must visit place in the world adds much of revenue to the country from tourism. Nearly more than 20 million People from across the globe visit the city every year. Paris has many interesting facts as for being one of the most prominent cities of the world.

Paris city has the total population of about 2,160,000 living there out of 60 million population of the whole nation, and 41 square miles area of France is covered by it. The city lies between 90ft and 120ft of altitude above the sea level. There are many attractions in the city to which people just thrive in numbers. Attractions like The Champ Elysees, The Eiffel Tower, Muse d’Orsay, Notre Dam Cathedral, The Louvre Museum, and The Arc De Triomphe.

A tower was built in 1889 in Paris for International Exhibition and remained as the world’s tallest structure up to 1930, it took 2 full years for constructing it, and this is the famous Eiffel Tower, which stands as one of the very legendary sign of France. The Eiffel Tower contains more than 2.5 million rivets, iron pieces around 15,000, paint of over 40 tonnes and for reaching to the top there are 1652 steps.

The fine city is divided into right bank (Rive Droite) and Left bank (Rive Gauche) by the river Seine to the North and South of the river respectively. Paris being the tourist destination, the special attractions of the city- Disney Land Paris alone pulls 13 million visitors, the Eiffel tower around 5.5 million visitors, Louvre museum about 5 million visitors and the Versailles palace attracts 3.25 millions.

The tour De France, that occurs every summer and more than 100 cyclists who are all professionals participate in the 2000miles race. The route of the race is will be changed every year never keeping it constant and Ireland was included once in the Tour De France race for covering that huge distance. The weather condition of France Geographically is low temperature. In winters the average temperature remains 3.88 degree Celsius i.e. in January and in summer it is 20.55 on average i.e. in July. The standard time of France is +1 hour to the Green which meantime.

The Country’s international dial code is 33 and the Paris city code is 1. Speaking of the power supply in the country it is 50 Hz, 220 volt AC, with round plugs of 2 pins. Paris is also famous for having more number of Museums, cultural centers and monuments, city has 70 museums. Best arts of the world can be seen in the Parisen Museum.

Fashion saw more divergent trends in the beginning of 1970s and 1980s and Paris remained the destination of the designers and the ramp models, more over the leading trendsetter of the fashion world. Paris Haute Couture has stood unmatchable in the women dresses designing and fashioning. Now Paris has stood as the Center of fashion influence which was held by London in 1960s.