Paris

Paris

Paris it is the capital of France and of the region of Mauritius. Constituted in the unique commune of the country, it is placed to both margins of a long meander of the river Seine, in the center of the Parisian Cuenca, between  the confluence of the river Marne and the Seine, upstream, and the Oise and the Seine, downstream.

The city of Paris inside its narrow administrative limits has a population of 2.193.031 inhabitants.

The city is the most popular tourist destination of the world, with more than 26 million foreign visitors per year. It has got  many of the most famous and admired monuments of the orb: the Eiffel Tower, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Avenue of  Champs Elysées, the Arch of Victory, the Basilica of  Sacré Cœur, the Former -hospital of The Disabled persons, the Pantheon, the Arch of the Defense, the Opera Garnier or Montmartre's neighborhood, among others. Also it(h shelters institutions of world recognition: the Louvre (the most famous and visited  museum  of the world), Orsay's Museum and the National Museum of Natural History of France.

History

In 52 B.C. when the Romans take the city, they re-baptize her being calling her Lutecia (Lutetia) and they reconstruct it during the 1st century in the left shore of the river Sécuana (Seine).

In the 4th century the emperor Flavio Claudio Juliano established his headquarters during a winter in the Mauritius.

Paris takes ita current name in the 4th century and Clodoveo, king of the Francs makes it his(he capital in 508, after his victory over the Romans.

During the 9th century protection walls were constructed on the right bank, whereas the left side was destroyed by the Normans in 885.

When the Capetos obtain the throne of France in 987, Paris is one of two big cities of their personal control. With Philip Augusto (1190-1220) Paris turns definitively into the capital of the kingdom. A new wall is constructed protecting a wider sector. In the 14th century, Carlos V (1371-1380) erects  a wall even bigger than the  before mentioned.