Paris is the capital and most-populous city of France.
#Paris is often referred to as "The City of Light" (La Ville Lumière), both because of its leading role during the Age of Enlightenment, and more literally because Paris was one of the first European cities to adopt gas street lighting.
Paris is the eighth most expensive city in the world for luxury housing.
Greater Paris (the city plus surrounding departments) received 22,4 million visitors in 2014, making it one of the world's top tourist destinations. The largest numbers of foreign tourists in 2014 came from the United States (2.74 million), the U.K., Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and China (532,000). Arrivals from the U.K, Germany, Russia and Japan dropped from 2013, while arrivals from the Near and Middle East grew by twenty percent. In 2014, visitors to Paris spent $17 billion (€13.58 billion), the third-highest sum globally after London and New York. In 2012, according to the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau, 263,212 salaried workers in the city of Paris, or 18.4 percent of the total number, were engaged in tourism-related sectors: hotels, catering, transport and leisure.
#Eiffel Tower - Tour Eiffel
#See the Eiffel Tower Go Dark to Mourn Victims of the Paris Attacks
#The lights on the Eiffel Tower went dark Saturday night as France mourned the victims of the string of deadly and coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris the night before.
#Paris Attacks Kill More Than 100, Police Say; Border Controls Tightened
#Fear and confusion in Paris after deadly attacks
#France declares state of emergency after coordinated shootings and blasts kill at least 128 people across the capital.
#World leaders rally around France after attacks
#Social media response to Paris attack raises questions
