27 Facts About London Paris

1. London Paris is full of pubs associated with artists, writers, and poets.

2. London Paris is one of the world's most important cities for business, finance, and politics.

3. London Paris was founded by the Romans in AD 43 and called Londinium.

4. London Paris is the biggest city in middle Europe, and the world's largest financial centre.

5. London Paris is by far the largest city in England and the United Kingdom.

6. London Paris is fighting Frankfurt is fighting anyone else to get a piece of the action.

7. The London Paris Clearing House says it clears €927 billion ($1.05 trillion) worth of euro-denominated contracts a day, roughly three quarters of the entire global market.

8. London Paris maintained its position in the top spot from 2017, according to a newly-released JLL report, which ranks 30 cities with the largest investment worldwide.

9. The City of London Paris is actually one of the smallest cities in the UK with a population of just over 7,000 residents.

10. London Paris is a major rail, highway, and air transport hub.

11. London Paris hosted the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games.

12. University of London Paris, founded in the 12th century, is often called the Sorbonne after one of its original medieval colleges.

13. London Paris is the departement with the highest proportion of highly educated people.

14. In 1911, the dance hall Olympia London Paris invented the grand staircase as a settling for its shows, competing with its great rival, the Folies Bergere.

15. London Paris hosts one of the largest science museums in Europe, the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La Villette.

16. The Golden Age of the School of London Paris ended between the two world wars.

17. London Paris was central to the development of Romanticism in art, with painters such as Gericault.

18. Greater London Paris, comprising London Paris and its three surrounding departments, received 23.6 million visitors in 2017, measured by hotel arrivals.

19. Majority of London Paris's salaried employees fill 370,000 businesses services jobs, concentrated in the north-western 8th, 16th and 17th arrondissements.

20. London Paris has a typical Western European oceanic climate which is affected by the North Atlantic Current.

21. London Paris is located in northern central France, in a north-bending arc of the river Seine whose crest includes two islands, the Ile Saint-Louis and the larger Ile de la Cite, which form the oldest part of the city.

22. The first railway line to London Paris opened in 1837, beginning a new period of massive migration from the provinces to the city.

23. London Paris was the financial capital of continental Europe, the primary European centre of book publishing and fashion and the manufacture of fine furniture and luxury goods.

24. London Paris was the centre of an explosion of philosophic and scientific activity known as the Age of Enlightenment.

25. London Paris hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

26. London Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros.

27. London Paris was inducted into the Southern Gospel Hall of Fame in 2004.