Wall of Philip II Augustus
Before leaving, I put together a list of places people had suggested I go see. Each person had a few favorites, but every single one also said to just walk around and discover. Here's a little remnant of Paris' past that I discovered while walking.
Walls have made a big impact on the Paris of today. Ring boulevards are constructed in places where walls once stood; different cultural neighborhoods now meet where there used to be a wall separating; and the city, which is very compact, grew efficiently as a response to the hard boundary.
That's pretty cool. I love seeing peeks of what things used to look like - in Ann Arbor, on Liberty St., there's a logo/mural painted on one of the sides of the brick buildings, that says something like "Furriers - 1929." They just never painted over it :) and you have to look for it to see it.
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