Sculpture Town

Paris is so old that there are three or four Parises under the one we wandered in today. You can descend into the catacombs to see the bones of previous wanderers and climb the Eiffel Tower to see the sprawl of city that living souls inhabit today.
The dead have left their marks though, in the art built into the structure of Paris. Sculptures in stone and metal, bridges and domes, cobbled streets, parks and allees. Most of what we saw today was of the monumental scale. La Tour Eiffel, of course. Pont Alexandre III, Le Petit Palais. It's just as much fun to sit at a sidewalk cafe and watch the river of life flow by.
Today's highlight, the Eiffel Tower. I've been to the top as a little girl but we skipped the trip this time because the lines were as long as the tower is high. Spent the rest of the day making our way back from Trocadero to La Bastille, wandering and stopping and admiring the sculpture.
Feet tired. Also, I got sunburned. ;)


Les autres photos:

 1) La Tour Eiffel

2) Queue for La Tour, multiply this by a billion for the size of the actual line.

 3) Sculpture at Le Palais de Chaillot at Trocadero. Imagine a left parentheses with a notch in the middle. That's the Palais. You round the outside of the upper part of the palais, turn left into the notch and there, across the Pont D'Iena is La Tour Eiffel. It's truly a magnificent view.

 4) Sculpture, Palais de la Decouverte

 

  

5) Column, Pont Alexandre III

6) What to do in Paris!