Paris itinerary
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- 1
Eiffel Tower - The Defining Landmark of Paris
Gustave Eiffel's 330-metre iron tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair and has since become the single most recognisable structure in France. Three observation levels offer progressively more dramatic views of the…
- Address
- 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Bir-Hakeim station (Metro Line 6), 8-min walk; Trocadero station (Metro Lines 6 & 9), 10-min walk
- 2
Louvre Museum - The World's Largest Art Collection
The Louvre holds over 380,000 objects and displays roughly 35,000 works across 73,000 square metres of gallery space. It is, by any measure, the largest art museum in the world. The collection spans from ancient…
- Address
- Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Palais Royal - Musee du Louvre station (Metro Lines 1 & 7), 2-min walk
- 3
Musée d'Orsay - Impressionism in a Beaux-Arts Train Station
Housed inside a converted 1900 railway station, the Musee d'Orsay holds the world's finest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. The top-floor galleries contain works that changed the course of…
- Address
- 1 Rue de la Legion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Musee d'Orsay station (RER C), 2-min walk; Solferino station (Metro Line 12), 5-min walk
- 4
Notre-Dame Cathedral - Gothic Masterpiece Reborn After Fire
Construction of Notre-Dame began in 1163 and took nearly 200 years to complete, producing one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture anywhere. The 2019 fire destroyed the spire and much of the roof, but a…
- Address
- 6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Place Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Cite station (Metro Line 4), 3-min walk; Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame station (RER B & C), 4-min walk
- 5
Sacré-Coeur Basilica - Montmartre's White-Domed Crown
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart sits at the summit of Montmartre, the highest natural point in Paris at 130 metres above sea level. Built between 1875 and 1914 from Chateau-Landon travertine stone that bleaches whiter…
- Address
- 35 Rue du Chevalier de la Barre, 75018 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Anvers station (Metro Line 2), 10-min walk uphill; Abbesses station (Metro Line 12), 8-min walk
- 6
Arc de Triomphe - Napoleon's Victory Monument and Rooftop Viewpoint
Napoleon commissioned the Arc de Triomphe in 1806 to celebrate his military victories, though the 50-metre arch was not completed until 1836 - fifteen years after his death. It anchors the western end of the…
- Address
- Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Charles de Gaulle - Etoile station (Metro Lines 1, 2 & 6; RER A), direct underground access
- 7
Champs-Élysées - The Grand Boulevard from Concorde to the Arc
Stretching 1.9 kilometres from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs-Elysees has served as Paris's ceremonial axis since the 17th century. The lower stretch near the Grand Palais and Petit Palais…
- Address
- Avenue des Champs-Elysees, 75008 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Champs-Elysees - Clemenceau station (Metro Lines 1 & 13), direct access; Franklin D. Roosevelt station (Metro Lines 1 & 9), 1-min walk
- 8
Palace of Versailles - Royal Grandeur on the Outskirts of Paris
Louis XIV transformed a modest hunting lodge into the largest palace in Europe, a project that consumed 36,000 workers over several decades. The result is a complex of 2,300 rooms, 800 hectares of gardens, and an…
- Address
- Place d'Armes, 78000 Versailles
- Nearest transit
- Versailles-Chateau - Rive Gauche station (RER C), 15-min walk to palace gates
- 9
Sainte-Chapelle - A Medieval Jewel Box of Stained Glass
King Louis IX built Sainte-Chapelle between 1242 and 1248 to house relics he believed to be the Crown of Thorns and fragments of the True Cross. The lower chapel is modest, but the upper chapel is one of the most…
- Address
- 10 Boulevard du Palais, 75001 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Cite station (Metro Line 4), 3-min walk; Saint-Michel station (Metro Line 4; RER B & C), 5-min walk
- 10
Tuileries Garden - Paris's Oldest Public Park Between the Louvre and Concorde
Catherine de' Medici commissioned the Tuileries Garden in 1564, making it the oldest public park in Paris. Andre Le Notre redesigned it in 1664 in the formal French style that would later define Versailles - symmetrical…
- Address
- 113 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Tuileries station (Metro Line 1), 1-min walk; Concorde station (Metro Lines 1, 8 & 12), 3-min walk
- 11
Luxembourg Garden - The Left Bank's Elegant Green Escape
Marie de' Medici created the Luxembourg Garden in 1612 to accompany the Italianate Luxembourg Palace, which now houses the French Senate. The 23-hectare park blends formal French parterre design around the central…
- Address
- Rue de Medicis, 75006 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Luxembourg station (RER B), 2-min walk; Odeon station (Metro Lines 4 & 10), 5-min walk
- 12
The Panthéon - France's Temple of Illustrious Citizens
Originally built as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve between 1758 and 1790, the Pantheon was repurposed during the French Revolution as a secular mausoleum for the nation's most distinguished figures. Its…
- Address
- Place du Pantheon, 75005 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Cardinal Lemoine station (Metro Line 10), 5-min walk; Luxembourg station (RER B), 7-min walk
- 13
Paris Catacombs - Six Million Skeletons Beneath the City Streets
The Catacombs occupy a small section of the 300 kilometres of former limestone quarry tunnels that run beneath Paris. In the late 18th century, the city's overflowing cemeteries were emptied and the remains of…
- Address
- 1 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, 75014 Paris
- Nearest transit
- Denfert-Rochereau station (Metro Lines 4 & 6; RER B), 1-min walk
- 14
Seine River Cruise - Paris from the Water
A cruise along the Seine passes nearly every major landmark on this list from a completely different angle. The standard one-hour loop operated by Bateaux Mouches and Bateaux Parisiens departs from the base of the…
- Address
- Port de la Bourdonnais, 75007 Paris (Bateaux Mouches dock)
- Nearest transit
- Alma - Marceau station (Metro Line 9), 5-min walk; Bir-Hakeim station (Metro Line 6), 8-min walk
- 15
Montmartre - The Hilltop Village That Shaped Modern Art
Montmartre was where Picasso, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh lived and worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, drawn by cheap rents and creative freedom. The neighbourhood retains a village…
- Address
- Place du Tertre, 75018 Paris (neighbourhood centre)
- Nearest transit
- Abbesses station (Metro Line 12), 3-min walk; Anvers station (Metro Line 2), 8-min walk
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