Showing posts with label Arc de Triomphe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arc de Triomphe. Show all posts

2024-12-24

Completed 24th December 2024 (3/3)

  

2000 Pieces

 "Les Monuments de Paris" by 123 RF

with Notre-Dame de Paris, Pont Alexandre III, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Basilique de Sacre Coeur, un Bateau Mouche sur la Seine and a detail of a sculpture of the Pont Alexandre III.

The Pont Alexandre III is a deck arch bridge. It connects the Champs-Élysées quarter with those of the Invalides and Eiffel Tower. The bridge is widely regarded as the most ornate, extravagant bridge in the city. It was built between 1896 and 1900 and has been classified as a French monument historique since 1975. It is named after Tsar Alexander III. 


 

The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile - the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues. The Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806.


 

 Bateaux Mouches are open, long, and often glass-covered excursion boats that provide visitors to Paris with a view of the center of the city from along the river Seine.


 

 The Basilica of Sacré Cœur de Montmartre, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur, is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was formally approved as a national historic monument by the National Commission of Patrimony and Architecture on December 8, 2022.  The basilica was designed by Paul Abadie, whose Neo-Byzantine-Romanesque plan was selected from among seventy-seven proposals. Construction began in 1875 and continued for forty years under five different architects. Completed in 1914, the basilica was formally consecrated in 1919 after World War I.


 

Are there any news you need to explore the Eiffel Tower or Notre-Dame de Paris?? :-) 

 
Merry Christmas - Peace and love!

2017-05-18

Finished 17th May 2017

960 Pieces

Eiffel Tower
by Gerold Como

 the Louvre

 Arc de Triomphe

 Nôtre dame de Paris  & Sacre coeur


 Moulin rouge

Detail of the Top made of Steel

2015-12-24

Finished 24th December 2015

1530 Pieces

"Paris, mon amour"

Bildagentur Huber
Ravensburger, 2014

assembled from 1st-24th December 
my annual advent calendar


Merry christmas!
And peace on earth!

2015-12-01

My 2015 advent calendar - day 24 - merry Christmas !!!!

Oh my, another year passed by and it's really time again for a wonderful advent calendar.
This year I can build a small town of paper houses filled with jigsaw puzzle pieces and sweets :-)
Thank you, dear friend!


1st December


shimmering white pieces with some tiny black dots :-)
It seems to be a Ravensburger. Can't wait to open the door of house No. 2!

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2nd


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4th

 
 = day 3 + 4

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5th

 = day 3-5

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6th


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8th

 
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9th 

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10th
 (oh yes, I forgot to take a photo)

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11th

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12th

half way to x-mas :D

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14th

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16th

 Day 1 + Day 7 + some more pieces :-)

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17th


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 It was a surprise for me from the first to the last piece.



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I'll light a candle and pray for all who lost their friends and beloved ones
 during the act of violence several weeks ago in Paris.