THE 19th-century shopping arcades of Paris

[MrBern]

I love the first sentence of this article from the NYTimes...

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/travel/11culture.html

THE 19th-century shopping arcades of Paris, or passages couverts, are proof that anything modern, if spared the wrecking ball, can be stimulus for nostalgia.

 

[HadleyH]

The passages couverts are absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of Paris is amazing!
Thanks for posting MrBern.

 

[KittyT]

i lived in Paris for a year. how on earth did i miss these?

kitty

 

[Marc Chevalier]

i lived in Paris for a year. how on earth did i miss these?

The same way that native Parisian forget there's an Eiffel Tower.

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