The Best Nightlife in Cusco: A Guide to the City's Party Scene

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Sacré-Coeur - Review and History

Sacré-Coeur
 The Sacré-Coeur is one place of worship I am familiar with, I visited it on a trip to Paris, France. From my research the Sacré-Coeur was designed by Paul Abadie in a Romanesque-Byzantine architectural style.  Some influential people decided to build the church or basilica based on two reasons (Aviewoncities,2013):
1.   They had pledged to build a church if Paris escaped unscathed from the war with the Prussians
2.   They saw the defeat of the French at the hands of the Prussian army in 1870 as a moral condemnation of the sins of Paris.

Description of the church Sacré-Coeur (Wikipedia, 2013)
The triple-arched portico is surmounted by two bronze equestrian statues of France's national saints, Joan of Arc and King Saint Louis IX, designed by Hippolyte Lefebvre.
 The great bell, the Savoyarde, has nationalist references. Cast in Annecy in 1895, it is one of the world's heaviest bells at 19 tons.
The Sacré-Coeur Basilica is built of Château-Landon (Seine-et-Marne) stone, a frost-resistant travertine that bleaches with age to a gleaming white. The main portal has grand bronze doors with foliage designs.
Inside, the Sacré-Coeur is dim and rather gloomy except for the golden mosaics glowing from apse. The floor plan is an equal-armed Greek cross, with a large dome (83m high) over the crossing. In the huge choir, 11 tall round arches support a barrel vault.
 Since 1885, the Blessed Sacrament has been continually on display in a monstrance above the high altar. Perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament has continued uninterrupted in the Basilica since 1885.
The apse mosaic, designed by Luc-Olivier Merson (1922), is the largest in the world. It depicts Christ in Majesty and The Sacred Heart worshiped by the Virgin Mary, Joan of Arc and St. Michael the Archangel.
A climb to the top of the dome provides an excellent view of Paris - at 271 feet above Montmartre it is the second-highest viewpoint after the Eiffel Tower
The crypt contains statues of saints and a relic that some believe to be the very Sacred Heart (Sacré-Coeur) of Christ.
Relation between appearance and religious uses
This church was constructed so that there would be perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and this has continued uninterrupted in the Basilica since 1885. In addition the building was designed so that people from around the world could make a pilgrimage to the basilica and pray.
References
1.       Wikipedia (2013) Sacré-Coeur  Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacr%C3%A9-C%C5%93ur,_Paris

2.       Aviewoncities(2013) Sacré-Coeur Retrieved from http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/sacrecoeur.htm

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