On trips to France, nothing beats sitting at a typical Parisian sidewalk café and watching the world pass by. Paris boasts several excellent art galleries - the Louvre, which is the most visited art museum in the world, the Musee d'Orsay, a converted railway station mostly devoted to Impressionist paintings and the Beaubourg, dedicated to Contemporary art are just three. The main thoroughfare, the Champs Elysees is essentially the epicentre of the city and is close to the Eiffel Tower, the tallest structure in Paris and the hard-to-miss Arc de Triomphe at one end.
The centre of the city is in some ways an ‘open-air museum’ with its ornate traditional-styled buildings and attractive wide avenues. French citizens enjoy a high standard of living and the country performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, civil liberties, and human development. It hosts the world's fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites (39 in total) and receives the most foreign tourists of any country in the world. By area, France is the largest country in Western Europe and the third-largest in Europe. It is one of only three countries (with Morocco and Spain ) to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. From the northeast to the southwest, France shares borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Andorra. France is a republic and extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean.
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