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Fourteenth arrondissement of Paris is located in the south of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. It encompasses about 2.2 square miles) (over five and a half kilometers square and is home to more than one hundred thirty thousand residents and about seventy thousand jobs.

Some people want to visit its famous Catacombs, Roman limestone quarries converted, burial grounds more than two hundred years. In all my years in Paris (actually less than two), I have never seen and never the catacombsI felt that I lacked. But hey, that's just me. The Catacombs were created because many false tombs of the disease in the famous Les Halles market and in fact all over Paris. These quarries, is not limited to the fourteenth arrondissement has significantly reduced the disease, but also has many security problems are causing. During the construction of metro line in Paris last an elementary school yard together. What luck that no children were present.

It can be aunauthorized tour of the catacombs or strike on their own. There is a word for these people, cataphiles. Among the writers fascinated by the Catacombs of Umberto Eco and Edgar Allan Poe. With all the underground visits it is interesting to note that only a single death in the catacombs were confirmed over the last 250 years.

Montparnasse Cemetery (cemetery) of Montparnasse, the final resting place of many famous French intellectual and artists including Charles Baudelaire,Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. The cemetery also has monuments of Paris, police and firefighters in the performance of their service life.

The name comes from Montparnasse "Parnassus," the home of the Muses of Greek arts and sciences. To my knowledge, this sector has not been very important for science, with one exception of extreme importance. Montparnasse is home to the famous Institut Pasteur, a world leader in the fight againstthe AIDS virus and numerous other viruses. This area was important for the art, at least since the seventeenth century. As usual for artistic neighborhoods, offering many cafes, bars, restaurants and nightclubs. But in the historic day, many of Montparnasse artists lived in extreme poverty. In the local cafe, the rule was simple: the waiters do not wake sleeping artists. In some cafes such as La Rotonde, actually in the Sixth District, on the side of the Boulevard Montparnasse, whichArtist "granted" their work at the cafe owners until they could pay the bills. In the words of Marc Chagall, "The sun of art shone only on Paris." And while some had the sun in Montmartre, most of which was in Montparnasse.

The famous concert hall Bobino was and is still fourth checkpoint on the Rue de la Gaîté west of the cemetery of Montparnasse. His reputation is not resident artistic Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Symon Petlyura, an anti-communist Ukrainianpolitical leaders. History does not record whether the three never met in Montparnasse Tour Montparnasse or other clubs.

You can immerse yourself in the spirit of the time in the Musée du Montparnasse (Montparnasse Museum) located in the study ex-Russian painter Montparnasse, Maris Vassilieff. Vassilieff was a character, she founded a canteen for starving artists and once pushed the Italian, born Montparnasse painter Amedeo Modigliani down the stairs. He then completed aDrawing of the accident. The museum offers its members a monthly meeting of culture. Try as they might not think I can capture the flavor of old Montparnasse.

La Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (International University of Paris) is an apartment complex of several dozen students and visiting scholars. The first began in 1925, many of its buildings by famous architects like Le Corbusier, the halls of Switzerland and Brazil, designed and developed. North ofCité is the lovely Parc Montsouris (not translated as Mouse Mountain Park), designed as a garden.

The saint is one of the most famous prisons in France. It includes both VIP and high security areas. In 1867 he founded its name (which means health) to the nearby Ste-Anne Hospital. La Santé was divided into four units to communicate with other prisoners from a place in the same geographic or ethnic environment. During the twentieth century, was the sight of many executions by guillotine,The ultimate goal of 1972. Towards the end of World War II, July 14, 1944 political prisoners revolted and were massacred by the Vichy (collaboration) forces.

Of course, you do not want to Paris without sampling French wines and foods. In my article I Love French Wine and Food - A Bordeaux Rose I checked out a wine and suggested a process of start menu: sausage (Chitterling) sausage. For the second course enjoy Esturgeon à la Libournais (Sturgeon cooked with WhiteWine). And for dessert Take Fanchonette Bordelaise (puff pastry with vanilla cream and meringue). Your Parisian sommelier (wine steward happy) to suggest appropriate wines to accompany each course.