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The city is a major railway, highway and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris—Charles de Gaulle the second busiest airport in Europe and Paris—Orly. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway station in the world, but the first located outside Japan, with million passengers in Paris received 38 million visitors in , measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and China. The city hosted the Olympic Games in , and will host the Summer Olympics. The name 'Paris' is derived from its early inhabitants, the Parisii , a Gallic tribe from the Iron Age and the Roman period. According to Xavier Delamarre , it may derive from the root pario- 'cauldron'.

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Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" recalling the final line of Dante's Paradiso , Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of colour, exercised a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance , but on future generations of Western art. His career was successful from the start, and he became sought after by patrons, initially from Venice and its possessions, then joined by the north Italian princes, and finally the Habsburgs and papacy. Along with Giorgione , he is considered a founder of the Venetian School of Italian Renaissance painting.