L'UNESCO est une organisation spécialisée des Nations unies qui se consacre à la construction de la paix par domaines d'intérêt commun dans l'éducation, la science, la culture et la communication.
Dans le contexte de la célébration du 70ème anniversaire de l'UNESCO, ce guide offre une nouvelle perspective sur la géologie à travers les bâtiments, les matériaux et objets d'arts contenus en son sein.
Le siège de l'UNESCO est un bâtiment inauguré le 03 Novembre 1958. Ce lieu culturel peut être visité gratuitement. Il est le fruit du travail commun de 3 architectes : le français Bernard Zehrfuss, l'Américain Marcel Breuer, et l'Italien Pier Luigi Nervi.
Ces bâtiments occupent un terrain de forme trapézoïdale de 30350 m2, amputé à son angle nord-est par la forme semi-circulaire de la place de Fontenoy.
Ce guide propose de faire la visite telle que la font la plupart des visiteurs : à partir de l'entrée de cette place.
This booklet invites to an unprecedented discovery of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, located on a small limestone plateau well protected at the end of a gulf. The reader will learn the astonishing coexistence between the walls of two stories, human and geological. The route, shown at the beginning of the booklet, stops over 11 main points, revealing the history of the capital through the description of the origins and uses of the stones that make the buildings, monuments and paved streets.
The walker will discover the different types of rocks as well as the fossils and minerals they contain. Anecdotes and architectural details previously gone unnoticed, will shed new light on the City of Lights.
The series «Balades geologiques« invites you to discover a cultural heritage marked by the amazing link between local human history and the geological past.
Each leafl et tells the story of a city, through an itinerary, and describes the stones; their origins; and their use for buildings, monuments, and streets.
The step-by-step itinerary is full of historical anecdotes and geological details that are abundantly illustrated with maps, photographs, and thematic developments, creating a truly unique visit.
Let's discover the city in a new light!
Point of interest:
- La gare Saint-Charles.
- Le Grand Escalier.
- Le Palais Longchamp.
- La Fontaine des Danaïdes.
- L'église des Réformés.
- La Librairie Tacussel.
- Le Musée d'Histoire.
- Le Port Antique de Marseille.
- La Cathédrale Sainte-Mairie-Majeure.
The La Défense district sits at the heart of the Paris basin (Fig.?2), a vast accumulation of sedimentary rocks, in a series of layers, almost 3?km thick. These rocks were deposited over the last 250?million years in the shallow seas that covered this area of France at the time. Today, the Paris basin is made up of a series of rings, organised according to age, with the most recent rings at the centre and the oldest on the edge... not unlike a layered cake with the size of the cake decreasing as the layers are piled up. The alluvial deposits left by the Seine in its bed or on the surrounding floodplains make up the majority of the sub-soil of the lower section of the La Défense district.
Many artworks are to be discovered or rediscovered during this walk, including the Red Spider of Alexander Calder and Joan Miró's Fantasy figures.
