Communauté d'agglomération Seine-Défense

La Défense is a major business district near Paris, in France. La Défense is Europe's largest purpose-built business district with 560 hectares (5.6 million square metres) area, 72 glass and steel buildings and skyscrapers, 180,000 daily workers, and 3.5 million square metres (37.7 million sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises, and is home to no fewer than 1,500 corporate head offices, including those of 15 of the top 50 companies in the world. The district is located at the western-most extremity of the ten-kilometre-long Historical Axis of Paris, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris, and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense. The district is centred in an orbital motorway straddling the Hauts-de-Seine département municipalities of Courbevoie, Nanterre and Puteaux. La Défense is primarily a business district, and hosts only a population of 25,000 permanent residents and 45,000 students. La Défense is also visited by 8,000,000 tourists each year, and houses an open-air museum.

Spektakulärer Ausblick auf die Champs-Elysees vom Arc de Triomphe. Übrigens eines der wenigen Wahrzeichen von Paris, die man ohne lange, nervenzermürbende Wartezeit erklimmen kann. Der Blick von oben in Richtung Defence und Sonnenuntergang war zwar durch ein Baugerüst verstellt. Der nach Süden lohnt sich allemal. Die Fischaugen-Perspektive gefiel mir hier besonders, weil die Strassen wie Strahlen ins Häusermeer von Paris laufen.

Reflets dur l'Arche de La Défense...

More old photos. Here is one from a trip to Paris in spring 2014. The view from the Arc de Triomphe that evening was great. The moon was full and I couldn't resist to take an extra frame with a longer focal length just to put him to the place in my picture, where I wanted him to be. Sadly I had no tripod with me and therefore the higher ISO and some noise.

Non è stato semplice cercare e trovare questo posto, anche le condizioni meteo mi sono state avverse (una sera pioveva e il vento forte mi spostava continuamente l'ombrello, ma alla fine ecco lo scatto che cercavo e che vi mostro volentieri.