Paris International: Private guided tours of “da Vinci Code” Paris

<BODY> <H1>Private guides for individuals or small groups</H1> <H3 STYLE="text-align:left; color:#036;">See Paris at your own pace with a personal guide who speaks your language!</H3> <P CLASS=firstpar>Let us take you on a personal tour of Paris: The monuments, the best French shops, or off the beaten track…</P> <P CLASS=body><B>These tours are tailored completely to your tastes! </B>If this is your first visit to Paris, we recommend a panoramic city tour to help your get your bearings. The next two most-popular excursions are to the Louvre museum and the Château de Versailles just outside Paris. The city tour plus lunch on riverboat is also very popular.</P> <H1>Da Vinci Code Paris</H1> <H2>“The da Vinci Code”, the controversial thriller by Dan Brown starts in Paris, and the first third of novel takes place in the city of lights.</H2> <P>With your private guide, you will retrace Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu footsteps as the do their best to decipher clues hidden in Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpieces: the Hotel Ritz, la Grande Galerie du Musée du Louvre, where fictional curator Jacques Saunière has been murdered, works of art such as the Mona Lisa and The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci, the Death of the Virgin by Caravaggio, l’arc du Carousel, pont du Carousel, the frescoes by Eugène Delacroix, the ceiling, the astronomical gnomen (pictured at the left), and the “brass Line” inside Saint-Sulpice Church, and the jardin des Tuileries. You’ll find the Arago plaques that mark Paris’ “Rose Line”, the north–south meridional line from which all east–west distances in France were measured until 1888. Search for the holy grail in I.M. Pei’s Inverted Pyramid… Author Dan Brown maintains that “all descriptions of artwork, architecture, in the book are accurate”… Find out for yourself where the truth stops and the fiction begins!</P> </BODY>