Sacre-coeur 聖心堂

Sacre-coeur.

Peggy and I tried to visit as many places as we could in a day, therefore, we had agreed to visit Sacre-coeur, Musee du Louvre and Arc de Triomphe on our 2nd in Paris. In addition, we also want to take a look at some places we went yesterday but did not have a chance to get in, such as: Pantheon and University of Sorbonne. However, I would focus on the three new places in this piece.
Peggy和我想盡力地在一天中參觀最多的地方,所以,昨晚就商量好第二天的巴黎行要到聖心堂,羅浮宮和凱旋門.除此之外,我們還要到昨天的幾個遺珠點:萬神廟和索邦大學去再走一遭.不過,在這一天的遊記中還是以新地方為主啦!!

Sacre-coeur is located in Montmartre which were gathered a lot of artists, poets and writers in the old time. There are a lot of cafes, bars, restaurants and various shops around. The are 2 must see places in Montmartre are Sacre-coeur and Moulin Rouge. The former is on top of the Montmartre hill and is famous of its different design from the other cathedrals in Paris. I, personally, like the stairs to climb up to the Sacre-coeur the most—when you stand just right in front of Sacre-coeur, you would be able to see the whole city-view of Paris clearly (Don't worry!! There are cablecars to take you up as well if you do not like to climb stairs). It is so nice to sit down at one of the stairs and let the breeze blow on your face; it should be much better to taste ice cream in summer :) The Moulin Rouge first opened its doors in 6th of October, 1889 and still exists today. It became a well known among upper class, Parisian artists and writers. The Moulin Rouge was a combined dance hall and cabaret and it had a large dance floor with mirrored walls and brassy music accompanied the risque dances of the can-can dancers.
I am quite curious of it, but I heard the the price for seeing the performance is quite expensive...well... forget it lo. I will wait till I become the millionaire then.

聖心堂座落在蒙馬特區,蒙馬特區曾是大文豪,藝術家和畫家聚集的地方,那裡有許多咖啡館,酒吧,餐廳和各種風味的小店.來到蒙馬特有兩個重要的必看景點:聖心堂和紅磨坊.聖心堂是蒙馬特的地標,高聳地矗立在蒙馬特山丘上.它那不同於其他巴黎教堂的建築也負有盛名.我個人最喜歡那直達聖心堂前的階梯,因為當你爬上聖心堂前,整個巴黎市景盡收眼底的感覺真是太棒了!(不愛爬樓梯的人不用擔心,還可以搭電纜車上去…)坐在階梯上,任微風徐徐的吹拂臉龐是舒服的享受,若是夏天,再來支可口的冰淇淋會更棒:D 紅磨坊第一次開門做生意是在1889年10月6日而且現在還營業中喔!在當時,紅磨坊的名氣很快就在上流階級,巴黎的藝術家和作家中傳開.紅磨坊是舞廳和流行歌舞表演的綜合體,而且它有一個四面都是鏡子的大舞廳,還有舉世聞名的隨銅樂伴奏的而起的康康舞.
我是挺好奇想進去瞧瞧啦!不過聽說看一場表演的價格不斐,還是算了吧!等我成了大富婆再說!!

Musee du Louvre 羅浮宮

Musee du Louvre

How could you miss Musee du Louvre when you're in Paris? Of course not. However, Musee du Louvre is just too huge to be able to walk around in a few hours. Due to the time, Peggy and I were kind of seeing those must-see art works in Louvre this time, such as: Mona Lisa, Venus of Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. I like watching paintings the most in museums and therefore, there are some of my favourite paintings in Louvre too, such as: The Consecration of Napoleon at Notre Dame in Paris and The Empress Josephine. We both ran to find out as many must-see works within our limited visiting time, however, we still could not see all of them. Well… next time, I would stay a whole day there to see each piece art work clearly then.

到巴黎可以錯過羅浮宮嗎?當然不行.只不過這個羅浮宮真的太大了,想在幾個鐘頭內走完都很難.因為時間的關係,我和Peggy只好挑重點看囉!重點就是羅浮宮的鎮宮三寶:蒙娜麗莎,勝利女神像和米羅的維納斯.我個人是比較喜歡看畫的,所以,我也找到在羅浮宮的另外二寶(我封的!)拿破崙的登基大典和約瑟芬皇后.(不好意思,我還滿欣賞拿先生的:P)我們兩個走到腳痠只為了多看幾個重點,只可惜,在近3個小時的參觀時間內連重點都看不完:( 我下次來一定特地花一天的時間純逛羅浮宮,好好仔細地把它的館藏瞧一瞧.

Arc de Triomphe 凱旋門

Arc de Triomphe with flag.

It was almost dark outside when we walked out the Musee du Louvre around 10pm. Peggy and I had planned to visit the 3rd landmark of Paris—Arc de Triomphe. (The other two are Tour Eiffel and Musee du Louvre.) And we were too late for the last admission when we arrived at Arc de Triomphe, however, we still quite enjoyed the cool summer night in Paris and were busy in taking photos of Arc de Triomphe with French flag. (It is only because tomorrow will be France’s National Day.) Arc de Triomphe is the end of Avenue des Champs-Elysees and it was built by Napoleon in 1806.

當我和Peggy在晚上10點左右走出羅浮宮時,外頭已接近天黑了.我們照原訂計畫往巴黎的第三個地標—凱旋門前進(其他兩個地標是艾菲爾鐵塔和羅浮宮).而我們還是趕不及最後的參觀時間,不過,我們倒還滿享受有些涼意的巴黎夏夜和忙著替懸掛著法國國旗的凱旋門照相的樂趣(平常可沒有國旗喔!是因為明天是法國國慶日才掛的唷!)凱旋門是著名的香榭大道的盡頭而且是拿破崙在1806年時開始建造的.