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Tourists visiting Jardin du Luxembourg, admiring the water features and the Luxembourg Palace. More photos to be seen at www.eutouring.com/images_paris_city_life.html

Statue among a flowerbed, leading up to the Palais du Luxembourg in the background. You may also like www.eutouring.com/images_jardin_du_luxembourg.html

A panoramic of the Louvre courtyard, featuring an exhibition on the I M Pei pyramid to blend it in to the architecture behind. See a larger version; www.eutouring.com/images_louvre_museum.html

Looking from one of the terraces lined with flowerpots, leading around to the Palais du Luxembourg in the background. Brand new page with more: www.eutouring.com/images_jardin_du_luxembourg.html

La Conciergerie was the first royal palace that was built in Paris, and is found on the Ile de la Cite island, which was originally called Palais de la Cite, which eventually became a prison. The name Conciergerie was from the official who was appointed from the king to oversee various prison records and policing. But that's not all, the history of the La Conciergerie is intriguing from when it was a palace through to the French Revolution and the prison it became. Today now it is one of the more popular tourist attractions in Paris, as it was the place Marie Antoinette was held before her beheading at Place de la Concorde , also you can visit the Sainte Chapelle, which was built within the palace right back in the 1240s. Over the years the palace has gained much damage and been destroyed so only the lower parts remain in place, but there are still many halls and parts of the building which you can visit if you plan to go there while on holiday in Paris . The lower floors of th