The ancient oppidum that corresponds to the modern city of Paris was first mentioned in the mid-1st century BC by Julius Caesar as Luteciam Parisiorum (' Lutetia of the Parisii'), and is later attested as Parision in the 5th century AD, then as Paris in 1265. See Wiktionary for the name of Paris in various languages other than English and French. 2.2 High and Late Middle Ages to Louis XIV.

Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Г‰lysГ©es in Paris. The 19 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 1960, 19 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade FranГ§ais are based in Paris. Museums re-opened in 2021, with limitations on the number of visitors at a time and a requirement that visitors wear masks. The number of foreign visitors declined by 80.7 percent. Paris received 12.6 million visitors in 2020, measured by hotel stays, a drop of 73 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 virus. Other popular tourist sites include the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, also on the ГЋle de la CitГ© the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Г‰lysГ©es, and the hill of Montmartre with its artistic history and its Basilica of SacrГ©-Coeur. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991 popular landmarks there include the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris on the ГЋle de la CitГ©, now closed for renovation after the 15 April 2019 fire. The MusГ©e Rodin and MusГ©e Picasso exhibit the works of two noted Parisians. The Pompidou Centre MusГ©e National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. The MusГ©e d'Orsay, MusГ©e Marmottan Monet and MusГ©e de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art. Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre remained the most-visited museum in the world with 2,677,504 visitors in 2020, despite the long museum closings caused by the COVID-19 virus. Gare du Nord is the 24th-busiest railway station in the world, but the busiest located outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris MГ©tro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily it is the second-busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Paris is a major railway, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports: ParisвЂ“Charles de Gaulle (the second-busiest airport in Europe) and ParisвЂ“Orly. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore and ahead of ZГјrich, Hong Kong, Oslo, and Geneva. The Paris Region had a GDP of в‚¬709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the region and province of ГЋle-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated population of 12,174,880, or about 18 percent of the population of France as of 2017. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, science, and arts. Paris ( French pronunciation:В вЂ‹ ( listen)) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,175,601 residents as of 2018, in an area of more than 105 square kilometres (41 square miles).

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