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Hotel Majestic
Passeig de Gracia, 68
08007 Barcelona
Rising above the art galleries, designer shops and famed cultural attractions of the Passeig de Gracia, the Hotel Majestic has graced Barcelona's modern district for 85 years, and now stands as one of the city's most prestigious addresses. Behind the hotel's striking neoclassical façade waits an interior brimming with contemporary art and the high-tech conveniences demanded by today's luxury traveler.
The tasteful renovations of all 303 units into sophisticated and stylish guest rooms, including 21 spacious Junior Suites and 8 luxurious suites have recently been completed. A roof-top swimming pool, bar and solarium afford the ultimate panoramic views where guests can relax with a sauna, steam bath or massage after a visit to the fitness center. Hotel Majestic has long welcomed royalty and celebrities, and is also a favored business meeting address in its elegantly refurbished and top-of-the-line facilities, with a variety of venues that accommodate up to 500. One of the city's most elegant addresses, Hotel Majestic has fortified its reputation with the Drolma restaurant, awarded by Michelin star in 2002, where guests will discover a world of tastes and culinary sensations of Catalan and Mediterranean cuisine.
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Apsis Gran Ronda
Ronda de Sant Antoni, 49
08010 Barcelona
The hotel is located right in the center of the city next to the Plaça Catalunya, Ramblas and Passeig de Gràcia. It has 65 rooms, totally new and totally equipped with conditioned air, television with plasma screen, minibar, hair dryer and safe-deposit box, direct telephone. Wifi access in all the hotel. Also it has restaurant and service of reception the 24 hours.
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Hotel Advance
Sepulveda 180
08011 Barcelona
4-stars hotel located in Barcelona's commercial and bussiness center. Only 3 minutes away from Plaça Catalunya, Las Ramblas, Paseo de Gracia. 15 minutes far from the Montjuïc Fair. The hotel is located in a historical building in the famous "Eixample" area. It has been completely rehabilitated with a decorators team that had given this hotel a very remarkable design.
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Paris -- History
Paris is the capital city of France and a French département. Situated on the banks of the river Seine in north-central France, it is also the capital of the Île-de-France région (also known as "Paris Region"), which encompasses Paris and its suburbs.
The earliest signs of permanent habitation in the Paris area date from around 4200 BC[9]. Celtic migrants began to settle the area from 250 BC, and the Parisii tribe of these, known as boatmen and traders, established a settlement near the river Seine from around then.
Westward Roman conquest and the ensuing Gallic War overtook the Paris basin from 52 BC[9], and by the end of the century Paris' Île de la Cité island and Left Bank Sainte Geneviève Hill had become the Roman town of Lutetia. Gallo-Roman Lutèce would expand over the following centuries, becoming a prosperous city with palaces, a forum, baths, temples, theatres and an amphitheatre.
As other Roman cities, early Lutetia was structured as a regular grid, with the cardo maximus (main North-South axis) being the Rue Saint-Jacques, and the decumani (East-West axis) were parallel to Bd Saint-Germain and Rue des Ecoles. The "point zero", or groma of this grid was probably located at the southwest corner of the forum, which corresponds to nos. 172 and 174 of Rue Saint-Jacques: the highest point on the Saint-Geneviève hill.
The collapse of the Roman empire and third-century Germanic invasions sent the city into a period of decline: by 400 AD Lutèce, largely abandoned by its inhabitants, was little more than a garrison town entrenched into its hastily fortified central island. The city would reclaim its original "Paris" appellation towards the end of the Roman occupation.
Around AD 500, Paris was the capital of the Frankish king Clovis I, who commissioned the first cathedral and its first abbey dedicated to his contemporary, later patron saint of the city, Saint Geneviève. On the death of Clovis, the Frankish kingdom was divided, and Paris became the capital of a much smaller sovereign state. By the time of the Carolingian dynasty (9th century), Paris was little more than a feudal county stronghold. The Counts of Paris gradually rose to prominence and eventually wielded greater power than the Kings of Francia occidentalis. Odo, Count of Paris was elected king in place of the incumbent Charles the Fat, namely for the fame he gained in his defence of Paris during the Viking siege of 885-886. Although the Cité island had survived the Viking attacks, most of the unprotected Left Bank city was destroyed; rather than rebuild there, after drying marshlands to the north of the island, Paris began to expand onto the Right Bank. In 987 AD, Hugh Capet, Count of Paris, was elected King of France, founding the Capetian dynasty which would raise Paris to become France's capital.
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