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Roads with impressive views

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As with any city the transport can get busy, but roads travel along the picturesque views of the city of Paris. Explore more of the views taken by our team www.eutouring.com/images_river_seine.html

End of the square and island

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Here you can see the tip of the Ile Saint Louis and the Square Barye, providing greats views over the River Seine and places to relax under the trees. See more Paris Photos at www.eutouring.com/images_square_barye.html

The Tour Montparnasse Tower has great views and the highest restaurant in Europe

The Tour Montparnasse is more of a modern tourist attraction in Paris which has attracted both love and hate being a sky scraper in Paris, people seeking it out for the fabulous views it provides across the city and others for disliking the idea of having a skyscraper across the height of Paris. In fact the tower is also known as Tour Maine-Montparnasse, but more commonly called the Tour Montparnasse, or Montparnasse Tower, and stands as the only skyscraper in Paris at a height of over 200 metres. The Montparnasse Tower was built above the Metro and various underground lines meaning it had to be reinforced much more. With 56 concrete reinforced concrete pillars which go down in the ground for over 60 meters to help for this very reason. Another impressive feat is that the Tour Montparnasse weighs 150,000 tons, and has a total of 59 floors including 6 underground floors, with a facade of 40,000 metres it can also measure in at an even more impressive amount of windows, which is at 7