More than any other Parisian area, the Opera carries the stamp of the Second Empire, with its wide avenues bordered with Haussmannian buildings, the luxury boutiques, the café terraces...
A bustling area by day as well as by night, loved by the Parisians and visited a lot by foreigners. A place of work and for strolling, full of shops, restaurants and theaters .
The Opera Theater is one of the jewels of the city. Charles Garnier designed this magnificent building, of international renown, and its dome was painted by Chagall. Today it shows alternately operas and ballets. We suggest that you visit the interior only on the days that you are able to visit the stage.
"The Madeleine" is one of the most well known churches of Paris, because of its size and its neoclassical façade, which resembles a Greek temple. On the square are some of the most prestigious delicatessens and the famous restaurant Maxim's, next to several luxury boutiques.
The Grands Boulevards are the main crossroads on the Right Bank where there are many shops as well as two famous department stores: the Galéries Lafayette and the Printemps de la Mode. True shopping meccas, they are also beautiful examples of buildings from the Belle Epoque. For this reason we suggest that you have a drink on the last floor of the Printemps, under the Art Nouveau style dome, after a long day of shopping or sight seeing&
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