Paris, the capital of France is well known for the many interesting tourist attractions andis very often chosen as the top vacation destination. Combining the elegance and style of the past centuries is  with the high fashion demands of today’s modern society, Paris still seems to be everything that one could wish for in a vacation spot.

Everybody heard about Notre Dame Cathedral, La Louvre and The Arch de Triomphe. But what
about the Centre Pompidou? Having a high-technology design, this modern building captures
more and more of the attention of tourists and the French people as well. And that is
because of its fashionable architecture that relates more to the every day working style of
the people. But it still has refinement and kind of trendy elegance.

In 2009, Paris had the honorable America’s first family as guests. Barack Obama and his
family are known as being people that still have that natural every day style of the
regular people. And they enjoy having good time together as a family too. Paris was the
only place during the visits through different countries from all over the world where
Obama had his family with him. They had a special nice time together in Paris. One of the
daughters had her birthday, they went shopping, visited Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower.

Before leaving on Sunday, they visited Centre Pompidou in the morning with its colored
pipe architecture. What is so special about this Centre Pompidou is its architecture for
which the architects won the Pritzker Prize in 2007. This building has revolutionized the
concept of museum architecture. And it is quite interesting to walk through a building
shaped by pipes from which there can be seen all of Paris.

It seems that America’s first lady and her family found it very interesting as well because
they visited it right before the flight back home on Sunday morning. And the street
performers had a warm welcome for America’s president as well: in the pictures taken during
Obama’s visit to the Pompidou Centre there can be seen the performers holding a big
painting of Obama they have made. But they were not the only ones that were excited about
the president’s visit; hundreds of people were on the streets during Obama’s visit to the
Centre Pompidou Paris with the hope of seeing him in person.