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 |