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Washington D.C. Destination Guide
Because the city was built from scratch, Washington's regular town plan is easy to grasp. Centered on Capitol Hill and its governmental monoliths, the District is divided into four quadrants - northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest. Dozens of broad avenues , all named after states, run diagonally across a standard grid of streets , meeting up at monumental traffic circles like Dupont Circle. North-south streets are numbered, east-west ones are lettered. There's no J Street, an intentional slight to early Supreme Court Justice John Jay, or X, Y or Z Street. I Street is often written Eye Street. Be sure to note the relevant two-letter code in any address (NW, NE, SW, SE), which shows its quadrant; 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW is a long way from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave SE.
Until you get your bearings, stick to the established tourist trail; almost all the most famous sights are on Capitol Hill or in the comparatively affluent northwest quarter. To the west of the Capitol, the broad, green Mall holds monuments to presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt , as well as the White House , official home of the current president. Also here are the bulk of the city's many marvelous museums, including the national collections of the Smithsonian Institution .
However, there is more to Washington than an endless succession of museums and monuments, and it's well worth your time to search out the many attractive neighborhoods . Despite its reputation, most of the city is in surprisingly good shape, with row after row of nineteenth-century brick-fronted houses set along leafy boulevards. Between the Mall and the main spine of Pennsylvania Avenue - the parade route connecting Capitol Hill to the White House - the Neoclassical buildings of the Federal Triangle offer a sobering contrast to the rest of the city's neighborhoods. North and east of here, what's known as Old Downtown has been revitalized after years of neglect, and now features new plazas, galleries and restaurants alongside its traditional attractions, like the FBI Building, Old Post Office and the theater associated with President Lincoln's assassination. The area around the MCI Center , particularly along Seventh St NW, is fast developing as an entertainment and nightlife scene, with a good selection of bars and restaurants. The oldest area, Georgetown , where popular bars and restaurants now line M Street and Wisconsin Avenue above the Potomac River , actually precedes the establishment of the District. Georgetown is a fifteen-minute walk from the Foggy Bottom -GWU Metro but its Federal-era and Victorian townhouses and the towpath along the C&O Canal make it a fine target for a day's poking about. Other neighborhoods to check out - especially for eating and drinking - are Dupont Circle at Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire avenues, which pulls a dynamic mix of urban professionals of all stripes, and the gentrifying Latin immigrant community of Adams-Morgan , a favored destination of the weekend party crowd that's a short walk from Dupont Circle up 18th Street at Columbia Road.
Most DC visitors also take the short Metro ride to Arlington in Virginia to see the National Cemetery, President John F. Kennedy's burial place and the Pentagon. Read more here
Paris Destination Guide
It's little wonder that so many wistful songs have been penned over the years about France's capital, Paris . Few cities leave the visitor with such vivid impressions, whether it's the drifting cherry blossoms in the tranquil gardens of Notre-Dame, the riverside quais on a summer evening, the sound of blues in atmospheric cellar bars, or the ancient alleyways and cobbled lanes of the historic Latin Quarter and villagey Montmartre.
Paris has no problem living up to the painted images and movie myths with which we're all familiar. Indeed, the whole city is something of a work of art. Two thousand years of shaping and reshaping have resulted in monumental building, sweeping avenues, grand esplanades and celebrated bridges. Many of its older buildings have survived intact, having been spared the ravages of flood and fire and saved from Hitler's intended destruction. Moreover, they survive with a sense of continuity and homogeneity, as new sits comfortably against a backdrop of old - the glass Pyramid against the grand fortress of the Louvre, the Column of Liberty against the Opιra Bastille. Time has acted as judge, as buildings once surrounded in controversy - the Eiffel Tower, the Sacrι-Coeur, the Pompidou Centre - have in their turn become well-known symbols of the city. Yet for all the tremendous pomp and magnificence of its monuments, the city operates on a very human scale, with exquisite, secretive little nooks tucked away off the Grands Boulevards and very definite little communities revolving around games of boules and the local boulangerie and cafι.
Architecturally, the Cathιdrale de Notre-Dame, Sainte-Chapelle and the Palais du Louvre , in the city's centre, provide a constant reminder of Paris's religious and royal past. The backdrop of the streets is predominantly Neoclassical, the result of nineteenth-century development designed to reflect the power of the French state. Each period since, however, has added, more or less discreetly, novel examples of its own styles - with Auguste Perret, Le Corbusier, Mallet-Stevens and Eiffel among the early twentieth-century innovators. In recent decades, the architectural additions have been more dramatic in scale, producing new and major landmarks, and recasting down-at-heel districts into important centres of cultural and consumer life. New buildings such as La Villette, La Grande Arche de la Dιfense , the Opιra Bastille , the Institut du Monde Arabe and the Bibliothθque Nationale have expanded the dimensions of the city, pointing it determinedly towards the future.
Paris's museums and galleries , not least the mighty Louvre , number among the world's finest. The tradition of state cultural endowment is very much alive in the city and collections are exceedingly well displayed and cared for. Many are also housed in beautiful locations, such as old mansions and palaces, others in bold conversions, most famously the Musιe d'Orsay , which occupies a former train station. The Impressionists here and at the Musιe Marmottan , the moderns at the Palais de Tokyo , the smaller Picasso and Rodin museums - all repay a visit. In addition, the contemporary scene is well represented in the commercial galleries that fill the Marais, St-Germain, the Bastille and the area around the Champs-Ιlysιes, and there's an ever-expanding range of museums devoted to other areas of human endeavour - science, history, decoration, fashion and performance art.
Few cities can compete with the thousand-and-one cafιs, bars and restaurants that line every Parisian street and boulevard. The variety of style and dιcor, cuisine and price is hard to beat too. Traditional French food has become increasingly innovative and the many ethnic origins represented among the city's millions have opened eateries providing a range of gastronomic options for every palate and pocket.
The city entertains best at night, with a deserved reputation for outstanding film and music . Paris's cinematic prowess is marked by annual film festivals, with a refreshing emphasis on art, independent and international films. Music is equally revered, with nightly offerings of excellent jazz, top-quality classical, avant-garde experimental, international rock, West African soukous and French-Caribbean zouk , Algerian raο , and traditional chansons .
If you've time, you should certainly venture out of the city. The region surrounding the capital - the Ξle de France - is dotted with cathedrals and chβteaux as stunning and steeped in history as the city itself - Chartres, Versailles and Fontainebleau , for example. An equally accessible excursion from the capital is that most un-French of attractions, Disneyland Paris . Read more here
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