Paguio, Mon Amour, always Paguio

There is nothing more sensual and delicious to hear from the lips of a beautiful and elegant artist pronounce the name of this city in their original language. Imagine that for a moment, please.

The great beauty of Paris is that it is still one hundred percent in Paris. After a shrug and a dismissive moue distant "bof!?, The city has accepted, but mostly ignored, the arrival of other cultures. When he opened the first McDonald's, had to change the names of the burgers (remember the rap "Royale with cheese? Of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction): even the most universal of the marks must abide by the discipline Paris.

Paris is imperishably homogeneous. The nineteenth-century streetscape of Baron (urban design model number later), giving strength to the Champs Elysees, remains largely intact despite the efforts of the revolutionaries, the occupiers, the liberators and the events of 1968. The three-story buildings and four floors, with the mansard roof are the blotter the city's architectural, able to absorb as easily as the Place des Vosges, the ancien regime, the Centre Pompidou or the Louvre's glass pyramid designed by IM Pei. Meanwhile, his best known landmarks are standing at least a century (the iconic Eiffel Tower and the Sacre-Coeur-white) or almost eight (Notre Dame).

The center of the city (beyond the urban periphery is as infinite as in most cities) is compact and easy to navigate on foot. The Surrealists were long intervals to the action of walking as the best way to find · l'impromptu ·, and what better way to explore Paris hata taking the subway stations as one of those evocative names such as Jasmin suggestive and promising, Glacière or Pyramids, and walk without the aid of a map of the arrondissements and quartiers spiral. In Montmartre or the Marais, St Honoré or the Ile St. Louis, can get carried away with his nose (actually, for all his vital organs):

Breathe in the scent that comes from a small bistro on Rue St-Denis, where you can get a croque monsieur or foie gras at Fauchon test, see a tiny museum-workshop (the Zadkine, for example) hidden in an alley, or to find the sculptures in the Tuileries Gardens, away from the bustle that rodeo, the Thinker by Rodin, the Mona Lisa or Degas Dancers.

If possible this should ride à deux, ie a couple. Needless to say, Cole Porter Paris is for lovers or Robert Doisneau photograph shows it with the famous kiss. Paris is romantic for centuries, from Abelard and Heloise to Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who dined and chatted in the Coupole, or Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin in a more sensual. Paris is an attractive city, and still more at night. As Terence Conran, a great Francophile, has observed, no city lights monuments better than Paris.

Some Parisians believe that your city has too many tourists, although it is possible that it has lost ground during the decade of 1990 in favor of new style centers like Stockholm, Seattle or Berlin, but it is only a temporary problem for a city with such force cultural and intellectual. Paris has many personalities (Picasso's studio, the gastronomic city of AJ Liebling, the seat of Henry Miller's erotic games) and a rich multicultural mix. Half of the current population was not born in the city, proof that "Paris is an air, a scent and a mental attitude?, As stated by James Cameron.

And will finish this article by quoting some famous people who have been "his Paguio? in the blood such as Brigitte Bardott, Baudelaire, Simone de Beauvoir, Henri Cartier Bresson, Moliere, Polanski.

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