Paris is in the Paris department of the Paris-Isle-of-France region. The French historic, political and economic capital, with a population of only 2.5 million is located in the northern part of France. Paris is one of the most popular cities among travellers. Known as the “City of Light” or the “City of Love”  the streets of Paris overflow with culture, art, beauty, and history. Whether searching out Monet’s Water Lilies at Musee de l’Orangerie, climbing the many steps of Sacre-coeur, standing before the Eiffel Tower in awe, or searching out the best crepes along the Seine, Paris is a city that captures the hearts of millions ever year. One of the most beautiful cities in the world home to historical monuments such as Notre Dame, the Eiffel tower (320m), Bastille, Louvre and many more. The night life is rich with the famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge, Lido and the Crazy Horse. Gastronomic restaurants offering cuisine of the finest are numerous and at all prices.

Much of the city was re-designed by Haussmann in the 19th century. Paris has a population of more than 2 million people, and the city is divided into 20 "arrondissement" (districts) which are numbered 1 to 20. The river Seine divides the city into the Rive Gauche on the south and the Rive Droite on the north banks of the river. The river is still very busy with commercial barges transporting cargo in and out. The historical name for the city is Parisii by the Gauls, however the Romans arrived in 52 B.C. and changed the name to Lutetia.

Transport in Paris:

The Paris visite pass (Travelcard) is enclosed free within the Paris pass package and is valid to use for journeys in central Paris on the subway, RER, Buses, Trams and SNCF. Alongside our free downloadable subway map, and free pocket guide, you'll be able to navigate the town with ease creating your rubber-necking even easier and cost-efficient.

Airports in Paris:

Paris has 2 main airports: Paris orly and Roissy charles de gaulle and each are well connected to central Paris by public transport. Any away is Aeroport de Beauvais, however it handles largely charter planes and budged carriers, together with affordable airlines ryanair and central wings.

Economy Condition:

Paris is each the political and economic capital of France. With a GDP of €649 billion, it accounted for half-hour of the wealth generated in France in 2014 and its weight within the overall French economy has enlarged in recent years. The bigger Paris Region is additionally the no. one economy in Europe and accounts for around five-hitter of European GDP.

The region’s economy displays the precise characteristics of an oversized world town. The economy is basically supported the tertiary sector that accounted for 87 of added valuegenerated within the bigger Paris Region. the load of the tertiary sector is10 points higher than the typical for alternative regions (75%) and this can be mostly thanks to the presence of major company headquarters and also the scale of each the money and business services sectors. However, there's abundant less industrial activity within the bigger Paris Region than within the rest of the country.

Education System:

French higher education involves 2.5 million students. 12-tone music of them area unit from abroad. All of them area unit profiting from extremely distributed coaching, and that they area unit registered in each field, at each level.

There area unit over 3,500 public and personal institutes of upper education in France: 72 universities, 25 multi-institute campuses, 271 doctoral schools, 227 engineering schools authorised to award the title of engineer, 220 business and management schools, 45 post-secondary public schools of art, 22 schools of design and 3,000 personal schools and institutes.

Some of France's 3,000 high-schools provide courses in preparation for entry to the Grandes ecoles, the categories preparatoires (CPGE); others have two-year technical programmes, called sections de techniciens superieurs (STS), or classes in preparation for the national Brevet de technicien superieur (BTS).