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[2] The 2nd arrondissement is also the home of most of Paris's surviving 19th-century glazed commercial arcades. At the beginning of the 19th century, most of the streets of Paris were dark, muddy, and lacked sidewalks. A few entrepreneurs copied the success of the Passage des Panoramas and its well-lit, dry, and paved pedestrian passageways.
Villeurbanne (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Arpitan: Velorbana) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.. It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after that of Paris.
Villejuif–Gustave Roussy (French pronunciation: [vilʒɥif ɡystav ʁusi]) is an underground station on Line 14 and Line 15 of the Paris Métro.It is part of the Grand Paris Express project.
The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Villeurbanne, Metropolis of Lyon, standing on Place du Dr Lazare Goujon. It was designated a monument historique by the French government in 1991.
The average annual temperature in Sainte-Adresse is 11.8 °C (53.2 °F). The average annual rainfall is 789.8 mm (31.09 in) with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 18.4 °C (65.1 °F), and lowest in January, at around 5.7 °C (42.3 °F).
The city hall was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1984. [2] The building is also located within the "Arrondissement historique du Vieux-Québec" (Historic District of Old Quebec), a district that was designated under provincial heritage legislation in 1963 and listed as a World Heritage Site in 1985.
CityVille 2 (excluding Facebook games using Unity) is one of the most gorgeous games on the platform to date. Rendered in full 3D, your city will only grow more lively and bustling from Level 1.
The Hôtel de Ville had been the headquarters of the French Revolution, and likewise, it was the headquarters of the Paris Commune. On 23 and 24 May 1871, when defeat became increasingly imminent and the French army approached the building, the Communards set fire to the Hôtel de Ville, along with other government buildings, destroying it and ...