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Top Sights in Paris
The best sights, experiences, and monuments in Paris, France
The Louvre - Quite simply one of the world's greatest museums, from ancient statuary—much more than just the armless Venus de Milo—to Renaissance paintings—Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is but the beginning... 
The Eiffel Tower - The world's largest TV antenna has drawn more than 200 million visitors since it first opened as a temporary exhibit for the 1889 world's fair...
Notre Dame Cathedral - The cathedral of Paris is a world-famous Gothic forest of flying buttresses, stained glass, and stone gargoyles...
Musée d'Orsay - French art from 18th to early 20th centuries in a converted rail station; this includes the world's greatest and largest collection of those crowd-pleasin' Impressionists and post-Impressionists, such as Monet, Degas, and Renoir...
Sipping the afternoon away at a café - A café au lait, the ghosts of famous writers, and you, whiling the day away in a Parisian café...
Cruising the Seine - A cruise down the Seine River is a most romantic way to spend an evening in Paris...
Arc de Triomphe - The world's most elegant traffic turnstile, a triumphal arch with great views from the top...
Montmartre - The original Bohemian 'hood is a cobblestone warren of streets teeming with picturesque class and curious tourists...
Shopping the fashion boutiques - Little black dress anyone?...
Attending the opera - Taking in a night of high culture at the avant-garde Opera Bastille...
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