PARIS

 Paris is the capital of France. It lies at the heart of a vast fertile plain temperate climate, the Paris Basin, on a loop of the Seine, between the confluence of the latter with the Marne and Oise. Its inhabitants are called Parisians.
Paris is also the capital of the Île-de-France and the French town unique that is also a department. As the cities of Lyon and Marseille, it is divided into districts (twenty in number). It has a police chief.

Most populous city a long time in Europe, it remains the most populous in France. According to the census of Inseeb 1

It is one of the most populated cities in Europe.

The position of Paris, on an island to cross the great navigable river that is the Seine by a route connecting the north and south of Gaul, in fact since ancient times an important city, capital of the Parisii, and place of residence of an emperor. Its position in the center of the territory controlled by the Franks choose as kings makes capital of France instead of Tournai. Placed at the center of a fertile agricultural area with a damp, mild climate, Paris became one of the main cities of France during the tenth century, with royal palaces, rich abbeys and a cathedral; in the twelfth century, with the University of Paris, the city became one of the first homes in Europe for education and the arts.

The royal power setting in this city, its economic and political importance is growing. In the early fourteenth century, Paris is one of the most important cities of the whole Christian world. In the seventeenth century, it is the capital of one of the main European political powers in the eighteenth century one of the largest cultural centers of Europe and the nineteenth century capital of arts and pleasures. Paris plays a major political and economic role in the history of Europe during the second millennium.

Symbol of French culture, with its many monuments, the city nicknamed the City of Light draws in the 2000s nearly three million visitors per year1. Paris also occupies a prominent place in the world of fashion and luxury; it is also one of the most visited capitals in the world.

"Tourism" in the modern sense, took magnitude that following the appearance of the railway, in the 1840s was one of the first attractions, in 1855, the series universal exhibitions, many opportunities to build in Paris many new monuments, the most famous is the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Exposition These, in addition to the embellishments made to the capital under the Second Empire, have contributed to make the city itself the attraction it is today.

But if Paris is the most visited city in the world, it is considered as one of the least hospitable and most expensive: according to a enquête192 sixty cities with 14,000 people across the monde193, it is located first place for the beauty and dynamism, but in the end classification regarding the quality of care (52 of 60) and the prices (only 55e194). To improve the reception of tourists and break this bad reputation, residents, members of the greeter network and falling in the wake of the participatory tourism, welcome every year more and more visitors for free rides to discover Paris and parisiens195.

The Paris region receives about 42 million tourists per an196 and central Paris about 32 million in 2013 of which approximately 15.5 million étrangers197, making it the most visited city in monde198,196. It is also one of the cities hosting the most internationaux199 congress. In 2009, the first fifty cultural sites in the city recorded 71.6 million entries in 2010, a figure slightly higher than in 2008.

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