Saturday, April 15, 2017

camminando | Paris, April 14: Axes and Stars



Today total walk length was about 28 kilometers.
The urban itinerary started in Montmartre, followed to Opéra National de Paris at Palais Garnier. Then there was an encounter with an interrupted sequence of rues, boulevards and avenues, where axes meet stars. Arches are focal points of avenues and frame them at the same time.


Opéra National de Paris at Palais Garnier

Shopping grandeur at Printemps

Grand Palais

Shopping grandeur at Avenue des Champs-Élysées

Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile focus of Avenue des Champs-Élysées

Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile focal point of Avenue de Grand Armee

Approaching Arche de la Défense

Finding the Axis Mundi in the urban axis framed by Arche de la Défense