Parc des Buttes Chaumont

Parc des Buttes Chaumont is a very popular public park in Paris. The park is located in the 19th arrondissement in Paris, France This is the third largest park of its kind in Paris, which includes more than 5 kilometers of roads and streets.

Now the park is visited by many tourists, both from the domestic and overseas. Because here the tourists can enjoy some of the beauty of attractions, such as the following:
The main features and the most prominent is the corridor Sybil, who sits on the rocky peak of 30 feet above an island partially surrounded by lakes. Corridor, is added to the park in 1869, is a monument Corinthian style, modeled after the ancient Roman Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy.
Then 63-meter-high suspension bridge, which crosses the lake and allow access to the island. And a bridge 22 meters high, known as "suicide bridge", allowing access to the corridor from the south side of the park.
Park also offers many kinds of native and exotic trees (many species of Asia): in particular, some of the cedars of Lebanon planted in 1880, the Himalayan cedar, Ginko Biloba, Byzantine hazelnuts, Siberian elm, European Hollies, and bamboo-leaved prickly ash, between other lots.
In addition, as part of the scheme city-wide wireless Internet access, the park has activated four wi-fi zone.

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Jardin des Plantes

Jardin des Plantes is a major botanical garden in France, precisely located in 5ème arrondissement, on the left bank of the river Seine and includes 28 acres (280,000 m²). This garden is one of seven departments of the Museum National d'histoire naturelle, and is the first public gardens of Paris. This garden was founded in 1626 by Louis XIII's doctor Guy de La Brosse, garden plants for health. And after that precisely in 1640 the garden was opened to the public.

Jardin des Plantes museum includes four galleries, the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Museum of Mineralogy, Paleontology Museum and the Museum of Entomology. In addition to the garden there is also a small zoo, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre with animals from the zoo empire at Versailles. There is also a greenhouse was built in 1834-1836) by Rohault de Fleury, an early example of the French glass and architectural metals. Furthermore, 3 acres of garden is devoted to displays of ornamental horticulture crops. Alpine Park has 3000 species with worldwide representation. Special buildings, such as Art Deco wintergarden big, Mexico and Australia and hothouses display regional plants. And the Rose Garden which was created in 1990 by having hundreds of species of roses and rose trees.

So if you are interested then please come to this park, because you can travel while increasing knowledge.

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Palace of Bargello

Palace of Bargello, also known as the Palazzo del Popolo (People's Palace) is a very famous museum. Museum which was once a barracks and prison is now a museum of art a very famous castle, located in areas with narrow streets and winding road near the Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence, Italy. This place officially became a museum that is when the Holy Roman Emperor Peter Leopold was exiled, and emergency Governor of Tuscany decided that the Bargello should no longer be a prison, and it later became a national museum, was opened as a national museum precisely in 1865.

And now the Bargello much visited by tourists, both local and foreign tourists. They come here to enjoy the cultural history and the collections of the museum. This museum displays the largest collection of Italian Gothic and Renaissance sculptures (14-17 century). And other collections include Donatello David and St. George Tabernacle, Vincenzo Gemito the Pescatore ("fisherboy"), Jacopo Sansovino's Bacco, Giambologna in L'Architettura and Mercurio. Benvenuto Cellini is represented by a bronze statue of Cosimo I. The museum also has a fine collection of ceramics (maiolica), textiles, carpets, ivory, silver, old coins and armours.

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