Gambar Fahrin Ahmad di Arc de Triomphe Paris

Sesampainya kami di Kota Paris, lebih kurang jam 7 pagi, tidak apa benda nak buat, nak check in hotel pun belum dapat lagi, so, kami luangkan masa untuk jalan-jalan sekitar Kota Paris. Kebetulan hotel kami berdekatan dengan Place Charles de Gaulle, di mana berdekatan sangat la dengan pintu gerbang yang sangat popular, Arc de Triomphe.

Fahrin Ahmad pun sangat excited walaupun kami semua letih terbang selama 12 jam dari KLIA ke Paris dengan Air France. Wajah Fahrin sangat ceria dan bagi Budiey, Fahrin ni jenis yang sempoi dan tahu apa yang Budiey nak untuk trip ni. Kepada anda semua yang mengikuti hashtag #TravelogueBudieyParis di Twitter dan Instagram, Budiey sangat-sangat berterima kasih ya.

Sedikit info tentang Arc de Triomphe yang Budiey petik dari Wikipedia.

The Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle (originally named Place de l’Étoile), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.^[3] It should not be confused with a smaller arch, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, which stands west of the Louvre. The Arc de Triomphe (in English: “Triumphal Arch“) honours those who fought and died for France in theFrench Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.

The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis (Axe historique) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense. The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographicprogram pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant patriotic messages.

The monument stands 50 metres (164 ft) in height, 45 m (148 ft) wide and 22 m (72 ft) deep. The large vault is 29.19 m (95.8 ft) high and 14.62 m (48.0 ft) wide. The small vault is 18.68 m (61.3 ft) high and 8.44 m (27.7 ft) wide. It was the largest triumphal arch in existence until the construction of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, in 1982.^[4] Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus. The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 (marking the end of hostilities in World War I), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it, with the event captured on newsreel.