Often forgotten in the age of air travel and instant global communication, many great cities owe their location to rivers. That’s true everywhere from London to Buenos Aires to Tokyo to New York. And that’s even true of Los Angeles, even though the city’s once-out-of-control river was long ago turned into a derided concrete drainage ditch. But no urban waterway has been around as long and as romantic as the Seine, which runs through the middle of Paris. And Paris began on the Île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine River, which now lives up to its name. in 3D time-lapse video onin just three minutes you can witness the evolution of that small hamlet over nearly 250 years into the capital city we know today.
Paris did not take its form through a simple process of outward growth. As can be seen from above through the animation in the video, the city has experienced different growth in each era of its existence, whether it was during the time of the Pharisees, the tribe from which it takes its name. The Roman Empire built the standard Cardo Maximus (now known as Rue Saint-Jacques), Decumanus Maximus, and many other infrastructures. During the Middle Ages, Notre Dame de Paris rose to prominence in the midst of that great (and unplanned) densification. or at that time Baron Haussmann Their radical urban renovation left large swaths of medieval Paris in ruins, replacing them with wide boulevards, stately residential architecture, and magnificent monuments that are recognized around the world today.
At first glance, the architectural environment of modern Paris may seem frozen in Haussmann’s mid-19th century. And make no mistake, that’s how countless tourists want it. However, as the video shows, Ville Lumière continued to change throughout the industrial era, and did not stop in the “age of globalization” that followed. More growth and change has recently taken place outside of central Paris and beyond the surrounding Boulevard Periférique, but ignoring the relatively recent, more divisive additions would not do history justice. Montparnasse TourCenter Pompidou, or the Pyramid of the Louvre. (Even the beloved Eiffel Tower caused a great deal of anger and scorn when it was built in the 1880s.) And while the venerable Notre-Dame Cathedral may have stood on the Ile de la Cité since the 14th century; A thorough reconstruction after a fire in 2019 has made this building truly one of a kind. Twenty-first.
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