12.Paris

France

Along the Seine, the City of Light - '' Panama '' for short - dotted with thousand and one characters: bourgeois or popular, nerd or libertine.

Rich inheritance she never disowned, Paris is now sometimes medieval Gallo-Roman, Haussmann or contemporary. Its monuments, its museums and neighborhoods are endlessly to tell us the Commune, the Roaring Twenties, May 68 ... The hushed darkness of Notre Dame, the splendor of the Louvre, the bohemian streets of Montmartre, the windows of the Sainte-Chapelle exert a power of attraction is not fading.

But much more than a monument of history, Paris is alive. At the foot of the iconic Eiffel Tower, it is constantly in motion, is renewed with the seasons that color its parks and gardens. She breathes vibrant pace of its students and its nightlife, is enriched by the contributions of communities that draw here a true melting pot. Supposed to wake at 5am, Paris never resting on its laurels.