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Unlike the Southern France, Paris has very few examples of Romanesque architecture; most churches and other buildings in that style were rebuilt in the Gothic style.The most remarkable example of Romanesque architecture in Paris is the church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, built between 990 and 1160 during the reign of Robert the Pious.
Until the 1960s there were no tall buildings in Paris to share the skyline with the Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in the city; a strict height limit of thirty-five meters was in place. However, in October 1958, under the Fifth Republic, in order to permit the construction of more housing and office buildings, the rules began to change.
The tallest structure in the City of Paris and the Île-de-France remains the Eiffel Tower in the 7th arrondissement, 330 meters high, completed in 1889 as the gateway to the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition. The tallest building in the Paris region is the Tour Link, at 242 meters, located in La Défense. It is tied for ninth place among the ...
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Defunct prisons in Paris (1 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Former buildings and structures in Paris" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
5, Allee des Pins, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris: France: 1926: The remains of this building can be clearly seen today beneath the four-storey block which was built over it. Demolished 1935 [1] Villa Stein / Les Terraces: Garches, Paris: France: 1926: 1927: heritage listed (1975) [1] Pavilion de l'Esprit Nouveau Paris France 1926 1926 Demolished ...
Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre (758 ft) Tour First in the La Défense business district west of Paris's city limits. It remains the tallest building in Paris proper and the third tallest in France, behind Tour First and Tour Hekla.
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