Watch PARIS Grow for 2,300 Years - 3D Timelapse (No AI imagery)

Watch Paris grow in 4K from a Celtic island town to a metropolis of 11 million people – 2,300 years of history in under 9 minutes, as a 3D timelapse of Celtic, Roman, medieval, royal, revolutionary and modern Paris. From the Parisii on the Île de la Cité to Roman Lutetia, the Viking siege, Notre-Dame, the Bastille, Haussmann's boulevards and the Eiffel Tower: year by year, the city grows on the real terrain of the Seine valley. Chapters 0:00 Intro: Paris today, then 2,300 years back 0:10 c. 300–52 BC: The Parisii and the burning of Lutetia 0:35 52 BC–AD 486: Roman Lutetia and the retreat to the island 1:02 486–987: Clovis, the Franks and the Viking siege 1:44 987–1515: Notre-Dame, the great walls, the Bastille and Joan of Arc 2:46 1515–1789: Renaissance, St Bartholomew's Day and the Sun King 3:20 1789–1830: Revolution, Napoleon and the Battle of Paris 4:21 1830–1870: The last wall and Haussmann's Paris 5:13 1870–1910: Siege, Commune and the Eiffel Tower 6:06 1910–1945: The Great Flood, occupation and liberation 6:47 1945–2026: La Défense, the Périphérique and Notre-Dame 8:11 Then and now: Roman and medieval Paris in today's city In this 3D timelapse of the history of Paris you'll see the Celtic Parisii burn their town as Caesar's general Labienus marches on Lutetia in 52 BC. The Romans build a new town on the left bank with a forum, baths, an arena and an aqueduct; in the late 3rd century it shrinks behind a wall on the island. Clovis makes Paris the capital of the Franks in 508, and in 885 Count Odo holds the island against hundreds of Viking ships. Notre-Dame rises from 1163, Philip Augustus builds the first great wall, and by 1328 Paris is the largest city in Christian Europe. Charles V's new wall and the Bastille follow; Joan of Arc fails at the Saint-Honoré gate in 1429. After St Bartholomew's Day in 1572, Louis XIV turns the old walls into boulevards. In 1789 Parisians storm the Bastille; Napoleon is crowned in Notre-Dame in 1804, and in 1814 the allied armies take the city. A last great rampart rises in the 1840s, Baron Haussmann cuts wide boulevards through the medieval streets, and in 1860 Paris grows to 20 districts. Then come the siege of 1870, the Commune and the burning of the Tuileries, the Eiffel Tower for the World's Fair of 1889, the Great Flood of 1910, occupation and liberation, La Défense, the Périphérique – and in 2019 the fire in Notre-Dame, which reopens in 2024. At the end, Roman Lutetia and medieval Paris appear once more inside today's city – and show what still stands. No AI imagery: Paris is reconstructed year by year on the real terrain, based on historical and archaeological research. Early buildings are reconstructions, and population figures before the first French censuses are estimates. About CityEons: I turn the history of the world's great cities into 3D timelapses – watch them grow over hundreds and thousands of years, from the first settlement to today's metropolis. Subscribe so you don't miss the next city. Which city should I build next? Tell us in the comments – and share your favourite moment with a timestamp. Music "The Winter Months" by Ketsa (pitch-shifted down one semitone) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ke... Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) "Harmony" by Ketsa https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ke... Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) "midnight drifter" by snoozy beats https://freemusicarchive.org/music/sn... Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) All tracks edited (excerpts, crossfades, volume). Sound effects: Pixabay; gunfire by electra (Freesound, CC0) Credits Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (openstreetmap.org/copyright) Contains data from APUR – Atelier parisien d'urbanisme and from ALPAGE (Noizet, Bove, Costa et al.), Open Database License 1.0 Elevation and population data: IGN and INSEE, Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 #Paris #FrenchHistory #History #Timelapse #CityEons