C.W. Post Department of Music

Concert Tour 2006. Spain and France

Long Island University • C.W. Post Campus • School of Visual and Performing Arts

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Agenda for May 29

From the Tour Itinerary

Morning	Breakfast at hotel
Rest of the day	Entire day at leisure for independent exploration of Paris. The metropolitan subway system (called the “metro”) is user-friendly, well maintained, and an excellent way to tour the city Suggested locations to visit: Montmartre to visit the Sacred Heart Basilica and the artists’ quarter in the adjacent Place du Tertre. Montmartre has a village-like atmosphere. It has been an artists’ colony for many years and boasts three museums The Eiffel Tower. Choose to go to the 1st, 2nd or all the way to the 3rd and highest level Visit one of the city's excellent museums (national museums are open today; municipal museums are closed): the Louvre, National Modern Art Museum in the Pompidou Center, etc. Great shopping is to be had along the Rue de Rivoli with its small boutiques and large department stores such as La Samartaine, Le Printemps, and Galeries Lafayette Stroll along the Champs-Élysées
Evening	Independent dinner

Links

• Weather in Paris
• About Paris
• Official City of Paris Web site (English link is in the top right corner)
• Interactive Map of Paris
• The Districts of Paris
• About the Paris Metro
• About Monmarte
• Sacred-Heart Basilica Web site
• About Place du Tertre
• Eiffel Tower Web site
• Remote controllable webcam of the Eiffel Tower
• About the Louvre
• Virtual tour of Louvre Museum (English & French, with panoramic views)
• Another virtual tour of the Louvre
• About the Rue de Rivoli. More...
• About the Champs-Élysées
• Various panoramas & panoramic views of Paris (requires QuickTime. High Bandwidth)
  Try Flying like a bird inside the Eiffel Tower and Flying OVER Paris and the Eiffel Tower
  (Use the arrow keys or your mouse to move pictures, the CTRL and SHIFT keys to zoom)
  © Eric Rougier/FromParis.com

Notes

• Paris is a city in north central France, the capital and largest city of the country. It is located in France's Île-de-France region, on the Seine River, 370 km (230 mi) upstream from the river's outlet on the English Channel. © 1993-2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved
• Paris is named after the Parisii, a Celtic people who settled on the city's central island—the Île de la Cité—in the 3rd century bc
• About 15 percent of France's inhabitants live in the Paris metropolitan area
• Paris contains around 150 museums (musées)
• Paris is a compact city -- roughly 6 miles across
• Montmartre is well known as the last village in Paris
• The Eiffel Tower, erected for the Paris Exhibition of 1889, was only meant to stand for 20 years
• The Louvre is the largest museum in the world

Department of Music
C.W. Post Campus
Long Island University
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, NY 11548
(516) 299-2474
music@cwpost.liu.edu
C. Culver, Chairman