Practical informations<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The city of lights was not only shaped by Haussmann<\/strong>. We will discover a rather high rise Paris La Defense, the business district of Paris<\/strong>. From the esplanade<\/strong> of la Defense, the walk will firstly focus on architectural projects<\/strong> and their role in the current socio-economic situation<\/strong> as well as the environmental dimension<\/strong>, which presides over the extensive renovations and skyscrapers in project in both business and residential buildings. Indeed, if the district attracts daily nearly 200,000 workers<\/strong>, only 20,000 people live there.<\/p>\n The vast pedestrian esplanade, built over parking lots, roads and public transport is also composed of hanging gardens<\/strong> and fountains<\/strong>. Sixty works of art<\/strong> make of La Defense a wide open-air museum. Finally, we will see that the district seeks renewal<\/strong> and expansion<\/strong> with offices outside the ring roads or through the busiest shopping center of France<\/strong> (48 million visitors per year) with the largest turnover (one billion \u20ac) which is opposite the famous CNIT<\/strong>, the first building built in 1958, with revolutionary architecture<\/strong> at the time. Between temporary exhibitions<\/strong> in an art gallery and comforatable seating in a cafe, we will take the opportunity to discuss issues of expanding the area<\/strong> between current economic situation and rebalancing of Greater Paris for the North and South of the French Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This tour will uncover the secrets of la Defense<\/strong>, the largest business district in Europe<\/strong> (38 million square feet of office, around seventy buildings<\/strong> and skyscrapers, five more major towers under construction). The promenade will you from the esplanade where the project started in 1958<\/strong> up to unusual and unknown areas<\/strong>, monuments and gardens, with many significant anecdotes<\/strong>, from Napoleon to the American Foreign Legion!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6961,"template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[143],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6933","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-visit-paris","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"featured","11":"virtual","12":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n\n
\nOur guide, a graduate in architecture, will explain the policy and urban planning<\/strong> at the origin of the creation of the large pedestrian area of 31 acres<\/strong>, bounded by a circular boulevard. The area is now established on four cities located west of Paris.<\/p>\n
\nThe promenade invites you to discover the most interesting ones and secret areas.<\/strong> On the way, we will also learn some original stories<\/strong> about the district, for example, where the coffin of Napoleon<\/strong> made a stop on his return from St. Helena.<\/p>\n
\nImmediately next door is La Grande Arche<\/strong>, another symbol of La Defense housing various ministries, in which we will end the tour to discover the panorama<\/strong> of the area and Paris. As a matter of fact, the Grande Arche is at the end of the triumphal<\/strong> and historical axis<\/strong> starting at the Louvre, through the Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe.<\/p>\n