The Saint-Martin-des-Champs

Picture: Costa (2015)

This beautiful church is one of the oldest in Paris, because it was built around the year 1060. At the time, this place was outside the urban area, hence its name of St. Martin of the Fields. In it began to appear the first elements that would initiate the Gothic architecture: the plant in semicircles, the supports of the dome in the form of arch, in the end, traces that would be developed in the later Gothic cathedrals.

Picture: Costa (2015)

After the Revolution, this church became one of the coolest museums in Paris: Arts et Métiers (Arts and Crafts). There, the most important inventions of science can be seen, divided into seven areas: scientific instruments, materials, construction techniques, communication, energy, mechanics and transport. Among the attractions, one can see one of the three original models used by the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, as a study for the construction of the Statue of Liberty. The museum is easily accessed by the Arts et Métiers subway station (lines 3 and 11).