Parisian architecture style

Be it Covid-19 or not, there are still several hundred thousand walkers who would come to survey the Champs-Élysées at the end of the year 2021. Nearly a million decorative LEDs are traditionally installed on the 400 plane trees of the famous avenue on Christmas. This extraordinary show remains visible until the beginning of the year 2022, to the delight of onlookers. The present mayor of Paris, Mme Anne Hidalgo says about it: "By lighting up for Christmas, the Champs-Élysées embody all the spirit of the end-of-year celebrations and invite every Parisian to experience a moment of fraternal sharing with his friends and relatives”...

If Devil wears Prada, - Paris wears Haussmann when talking of architecture style) "The city was not like it is behind my shoulders today"…the way I was narrating to my new discoverers of Paris. The visitors from Italy have stopped in the hotel boulevard Haussmann. The day I fetched them from the hotel started with the questions about who this Haussmann actually is? And why he is so important for Paris that the boulevards and the streets and the architecture, the whole city, in the end, is telling about his personality?

There exists no word “impossible” for Paris. The most eccentric, provocative, and daring ideas find their incarnation here. So happened with the idea of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. More than 20 years ago an unusual project came into the mind of this Bulgarian artist and his wife; to envelope one of the most emblematic monuments of Paris into polypropylene! Don’t ask me why. Who had ever revealed the mystery of the artist's soul?

Let’s have a walk, my dear visitor, from the royal and emblematic fountains of Place de la Concorde to the charming and romantic Medici fountain. On the hot summer day, it’s hard to find a better place or shelter from the hit and crowd in Paris unless you know where to go. In order to find it, we’ll stroll through the Place de la Concorde, the boulevard Sainte Michel and Luxemburg garden

The color of Paris is grey - that’s what I thought of contemplating the city one Sunday morning from the roof of the Sacre - Coeur Basilica. Was it because of the weather, the architecture, or my mood, I wondered? In comparison with red, the gray color is definitely less emotional. It is detached and neutral. I wear it when I want to be unnoticed, discrete, and classic