Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Paris, Banks of the Seine' has mentioned 'River' in the following places:
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78xc2xa0m or 256xc2xa0ft)Websitewww.paris.fr1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1xc2xa0km2 (0.386xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | WIKI |
[32] The Parisii traded with many river towns (some as far away as the Iberian Peninsula) and minted their own coins for that purpose. | WIKI |
After the marshland between the river Seine and its slower 'dead arm' to its north was filled in around the 10th century,[41] Paris' cultural centre began to move to the Right Bank. | WIKI |
[42] The latter location housed the headquarters of Paris' river trade corporation, an organisation that later became, unofficially (although formally in later years), Paris' first municipal government. | WIKI |
In the late 12th century, Philip Augustus extended the Louvre fortress to defend the city against river invasions from the west, gave the city its first walls between 1190 and 1215, rebuilt its bridges to either side of its central island, and paved its main thoroughfares. | WIKI |
Paris is located in northern central France, in a north-bending arc of the river Seine whose crest includes two islands, the xc3x8ele Saint-Louis and the larger xc3x8ele de la Citxc3xa9, which form the oldest part of the city. | WIKI |
The river's mouth on the English Channel (La Manche) is about 233xc2xa0mi (375xc2xa0km) downstream from the city. | WIKI |
The city is spread widely on both banks of the river. | WIKI |
Panorama of Paris as seen from the Eiffel Tower in a full 360-degree view (river flowing from north-east to south-west, right to left) | WIKI |
The city of Paris is built along a bend in the River Seine, between the confluence of the Marne and the Oise Rivers. | UNESCO |
The mastery of the architecture and town planning along the river is evident in the articulation of the Ile de la Citxc3xa9 and Ile St Louis with its banks, the creation of North-South thoroughfares, the installations along the river course, the construction of quays and the channelling of the river. | UNESCO |
From the Ile St Louis to the Pont Neuf, from the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower, and the Place de la Concorde to the Grand and Petit Palais, the evolution of Paris and its history can be seen from the River Seine. | UNESCO |
A large number of major monuments of the French capital are built alongside the river and on the perspectives overlooking it. | UNESCO |
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame and the Sainte Chapelle are architectural masterpieces of the Middle Ages; the Pont Neuf illustrates the spirit of French Renaissance; the coherence of the districts of the Marais and the Ile-Saint-Louis testify to Parisian town planning of the 17th and 18th centuries; finally, the banks of the river comprise the most masterful constructions of French classicism, with the Palais de Louvre, the Invalides, the Ecole Militaire and the Monnaie (the Mint). | UNESCO |
The conserved buildings of the Universal Exhibitions that took place in Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries are numerous on the banks of the River Seine. | UNESCO |
Criterion (iv)xc2xa0: United by a grandiose river landscape, the monuments, the architecture and the representative buildings along the banks of the Seine in Paris each illustrate with perfection, most of the styles, decorative arts and building methods employed over nearly eight centuries. | UNESCO |
Paris is a river city. | UNESCO |
The present historic city, which developed between the 16th and 20th centuries, expresses the evolution of the relationship between the river and the city. | UNESCO |
Upstream, the port and river transport; downstream, royal and aristocratic Paris. | UNESCO |