Quarries of Paris

The most beautiful passages carved into the stone of the great network of underground quarries of the south of Paris.

Quarries of Paris

Quarries of Paris - The mineralogical showroom on Rue Saint Jacques.

The most famous staircase of Paris. One of the showroom mineralogical layers of Rue Saint Jacques. It has been degraded and restored many times. One thing is sure. It was there before us. It will be there after (even for the weak).

Quarries of Paris

Quarries of Paris

Quarries of Paris

A beautiful view of the Paris Observatory, since the crane.

The Church of St. Augustine (Paris) has been built under the direction of Victor Baltard between 1860 and 1871. The land for the building is small, so they used a metal structure for the building. The advantage of this kind of construction is the absence of flying buttresses. That was the first time a great building was built with a metal structure. The land also not having a rectangular shape, wich is why the church is trapezoidal, with a narrow face and a much larger chorus. It measures about 100m long and rises to 80m high.

From left to right:
- The dome of the observatory of the Sorbonne. In the dark.
- The dome of the chapel of Sainte-Ursule de la Sorbonne.
- The dome of the Pantheon in Paris.