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    Fete des Vendanges de Montmartre - 7 to 11 October 2026

    The 93rd Fete des Vendanges de Montmartre runs from Wednesday 7 to Sunday 11 October 2026, under the theme of music. Montmartre has grown wine since the 12th century, when the nuns of the abbey planted the first vines…

    Address
    Square Louise Michel, 1 Rue Saint-Eleuthere, 75018 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Abbesses station (Metro line 12), 6-min walk; Anvers (line 2)
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    Jardin du Luxembourg - Formal Autumn on the Left Bank

    Jardin du Luxembourg covers 25 hectares behind the Palais du Luxembourg, laid out for Marie de Medici in 1612 and now run by the French Senate. It is the best park in central Paris for autumn colour because of the…

    Address
    Rue de Medicis, 75006 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Luxembourg station (RER B), at the gate; Odeon (Metro lines 4 and 10)
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    Musee d'Orsay - The Right Answer on a Wet Afternoon

    Musee d'Orsay occupies the Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built for the 1900 World's Fair and converted into a museum in 1986. The permanent collection covers French art from 1848 to 1914 and holds the…

    Address
    1 Rue de la Legion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Musee d'Orsay station (RER C), 2-min walk; Solferino (Metro line 12)
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    Parc des Buttes-Chaumont - A Cliff, a Lake and Local Crowds

    Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is the strangest park in Paris and the best one in autumn. Baron Haussmann had it built on a former gypsum quarry and rubbish dump, opening in 1867, and the engineers kept the vertical drama: a…

    Address
    1 Rue Botzaris, 75019 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Buttes Chaumont station (Metro line 7bis), at the gate
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    Pere Lachaise Cemetery - 5,000 Trees Over the Cobbles

    Pere Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris at 44 hectares, opened in 1804, and it functions as an arboretum as much as a burial ground: around 5,000 mature trees, mostly maple, ash, chestnut and lime, growing over…

    Address
    16 Rue du Repos, 75020 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Pere Lachaise station (Metro lines 2 and 3), 3-min walk
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    Eiffel Tower - The Queues Disappear in October

    The Eiffel Tower stands 330 metres over the Champ de Mars and takes about two hours including the lifts. October is the month to do it: the summer queues that run to two hours have gone, and same-week timed tickets are…

    Address
    Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Bir-Hakeim station (Metro line 6), 8-min walk; Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel (RER C)
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    Ile Saint-Louis and the Seine Quays - The Best Autumn Walk in Paris

    Ile Saint-Louis is the smaller of the two islands in the Seine, developed as a single speculative project in the 1600s and barely altered since, which is why the whole island reads as one architectural piece. The Seine…

    Address
    Pont Saint-Louis, 75004 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Pont Marie station (Metro line 7), 3-min walk; Cite (line 4)
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    Paris Motor Show - 13 to 18 October 2026

    The 91st Paris Motor Show runs from 13 to 18 October 2026 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, with 12 October reserved for press. Known in French as the Mondial de l'Auto, it dates back to 1898 and is one of the few…

    Address
    Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, 1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 75015 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Porte de Versailles station (Metro line 12, trams T2 and T3a), at the entrance
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    Chateau de Versailles Gardens - Formal Avenues in Full Colour

    Chateau de Versailles is the standard Paris day trip, but the case for doing it in October rests on the gardens rather than the palace. Andre Le Notre laid out 800 hectares of formal parkland from 1661, and the avenues…

    Address
    Place d'Armes, 78000 Versailles
    Nearest transit
    Versailles Chateau Rive Gauche station (RER C), 10-min walk
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    The Covered Passages - Nineteenth-Century Arcades for a Wet Day

    Paris built around 150 glass-roofed shopping arcades in the first half of the 19th century and about 20 survive, nearly all in the 1st, 2nd and 9th arrondissements. Passage des Panoramas, opened in 1800, is the oldest…

    Address
    11 Boulevard Montmartre, 75002 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Grands Boulevards station (Metro lines 8 and 9), 2-min walk
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    Marche d'Aligre - Autumn Produce Where Parisians Shop

    Marche d'Aligre is the market Parisians actually use, running six mornings a week in the 12th arrondissement and combining three things in one square: an open-air produce market on Place d'Aligre, the covered Marche…

    Address
    Place d'Aligre, 75012 Paris
    Nearest transit
    Ledru-Rollin station (Metro line 8), 5-min walk

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