World Postcards & Trekking
PARIS
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre
It is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Its construction began in 1875 and was finished in 1914.
PARIS
Fountain
in Place de la Concorde
It is one of two fountains in the Place de la Concorde, built during the time of Louis-Philippe. Both fountains has the same characters: six figures of tritons or naiads, six seated allegorical figures and four statues of different forms of genius in arts or crafts.
VERSAILLES
It is a royal château and the seat of political power in the Kingdom of France from 1682, when King Louis XIV moved the royal court from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789. It is a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.