Architecture City Sightseeing in Paris

Paris is a city full of architecture marvels. It is probably due to its history that Paris has a lot of buildings designed in different style. It is a good thing that most of these historical buildings and statues still remain until this day for us to take an architecture city sightseeing in Paris. Thanks goodness, it was such a good day back then. 

First, we passed by La Madeleine, a Roman Catholic church which was historically designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army. After the fall of Napoleon, King Louis XVIII decided for the structure to be used as a church, dedicated to Mary Magdalene. Chopin's funeral was held here. Although interestingly the funeral was delayed almost two weeks because prior to his death, Chopin has requested that Mozart's Requiem be sung. The Requiem had major parts for female voices but La Madeleine had never permitted female singers in its choir. The church finally relented on condition that female singers remain behind a black velvet curtain.

Save up to 25% on your hotel in Paris & see millions of reviews

The next architecture wonder that we saw is named Academie Nationale de Musique. The building was used to be Palais Garnier, a 1,979-seat opera house which was built from the year 1861 to 1875. This opera is probably the most famous opera house in the world due to its use as the setting for Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel "The Phantom of the Oepra" and, the novel's subsequent adaptations in films and Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular 1986 musical.

When we are making a turn at the corner, we saw a big Lancel store. I first made my Lancel purchase in this trip to Paris without knowing what kind of brand is this. Well, Lancel is not as popular as the other high class brands like Chanel and Dior in Singapore and hence, I totally never know about its existence until I visited Paris. If you don't know how famous Lancel is, well it is apparently an excellent brand in France. From a French's point of view, Lancel's class is somewhere above Longchamp and below Chanel and Dior.

I am quite happy with my purple canvas bag which I bought from Lancel. And I am not gonna be copies by other people in Singapore because most of them are wearing Longchamp anyway. LOL.