Here are five things you need to know about the Eiffel Tower, one of the most famous buildings in the world. Her size The Eiffel Tower was 312 meters high when it was built in 1889 and has long been considered the tallest tower in the world. Although it hasn’t been for a long time, […]
Month: June 2020
Tyler Perry’s Palace of Versailles is sold to Steve Harvey
Tyler PerryThe lavish former Atlanta mansion has just been sold to talk show host Steve Harvey for $15 million. The 34,688 square foot home was built by Perry in 2007 on 17 acres in the Paces Ferry community of Buckeye. The house was designed with a vision of the Palace of Versailles and features seven […]
Ralph Gardner Jr.: A Proxy Visit to the Louvre | Archives
GHENT, NY – It feels like another life on another planet. But it was actually last summer, when the words “social distancing” would have meant nothing to most of us, that my brother, James, drove me to a part of the Louvre museum in Paris that I had never visited before. Descending the crystal pyramid […]
Work on Notre-Dame de Paris could resume in 2021
Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris has said work to rebuild Notre-Dame, the city’s famous cathedral which was nearly destroyed last year in an inferno, could resume “in January 2021” if the elements strengthen weakened is completed. The Archbishop made the announcement on June 16 in front of the cathedral where he inaugurated an exhibition of […]
What Beyoncé’s music video shot at the Louvre says about museums today
A music video created by Beyoncé Knowles and Sean Jay-Z Carter and featuring them at the famous Louvre in Paris has sparked conversations about people traditionally invited to show their work – and interact with art objects – in museums . In an article published earlier this year in The international review of the inclusive […]
The Palace of Versailles will reopen, but will visitors come? – News
Elizabeth Pineau (Reuters) Paris, France ● Sun, June 7, 2020 2020-06-07 09:09 616 fc6853813033f564188675f8bdca121f 2 News Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, travel, tourism, coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic To free France’s lavish Palace of Versailles, built in the 17th century by the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV, reopens to the public on Saturday, but with little certainty that […]
The Palace of Versailles will reopen, but will visitors come?
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s lavish Palace of Versailles, built in the 17th century by the “Sun King” Louis XIV, reopens to the public on Saturday, but with little certainty that tourists will return as lockdown restrictions are tightened. slowly relaxed. Workers dusted the Hall of Mirrors and polished its gilded statues on Friday ahead of […]