If there is a film city par excellence, this is Paris. It was the City of Lights in the seventeenth century, when it established the standard of lighting a fire on the windows so that the city was not so dangerous at night, and today is a city of celluloid.

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The volume of film locations in Paris is so great that in every corner we can find a frame, a scene or memory of a soundtrack. Some of these films have even completely change the area, creating a tourism almost nonexistent until the time of release.

This is the case with Amélie. The neighborhood of Montmartre to the French premiere of the film was limited for the tourists to the Basilica du Sacre Coeur, the adjacent square and some surrounding streets, where painters can be sustained through the portraits of visitors.

Now, the Café des 2 Moulins, where he was the character played by Audrey Tautou, has become a mandatory appointment when visiting the city. The neighborhood shows that bohemian, melancholy and so Parisian, who is portrayed in the film.

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Another film that has certainly changed the guidebooks is The Da Vinci Code. The best seller by Dan Brown, then become a feature of American production, has recorded in the imagination of tourists the scenes of the glass pyramid at the Louvre or the Church of Saint-Sulpice, which despite being the second highest church Paris and have a rich history in architecture and astrology, never before included on tourist itineraries as a monument indispensable.

And what of Versailles, the great palace built by Louis XII and carried all its glory by Louis XIV has been the scene of many films set in the reign of the French Bourbons. Remember films like The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Iron and Gérard Deparieu, or the latest Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, who even got to record in the interiors of the palace, which is very difficult achieve.

The ambience of the palace in these films has allowed us to imagine the magnificence of court life at Versailles, how the days passed in a place as luxurious and huge or how they used their immense gardens for royalty and rides aristocracy. Versailles is a must if you travel to Paris, is a half hour of the French capital and can be reached by train (RER C). A tip, if you go by train, take the opportunity to purchase tickets visit the ticket, because it is cheaper than if purchased separately.

Another of the most photographed and filmed locations for the big screen is the Seine and its quays. Who could forget the fantastic scene in which Woody Allen and Goldie Hawn when they dance along the river and say I love you? The musical director of New York is perhaps one of the lightest film of his long career, but has made it recorded the image of this scene was played for the billboard and it’s no wonder that so many couples have wanted to celebrate their romantic trip to Paris with a little dance on the quays of Paris.

Another feature that is recreated on the banks of the Seine is before the Sunset, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy. The couple recreated their walks through the busy wharves of the river where you can see the different cultural, artistic and entertainment that can also breathe during our trip to Paris.

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The list of movies filmed and set in the city and its monuments is long enough to need more supplies to travel through the corners Parisian film.