Paris — Sights
Walk along the Seine and the smell of bread follows you.
- Musée Carnavalet – History of Paris — Paris history told through two Marais mansions
- Musée de Cluny – National Museum of the Middle Ages — Roman baths and the Lady and the Unicorn under one roof
- Musée Rodin — A sculpture walk that puts The Thinker in the garden
- Petit Palais – Fine Arts Museum of Paris — Free permanent art and a courtyard garden opposite the Grand Palais
- Panthéon — Foucault’s pendulum above the crypts of France’s great figures
- Père-Lachaise Cemetery — A hillside cemetery of Parisian memory.
- Fondation Louis Vuitton — Frank Gehry architecture shaped like glass sails.
- Musée de l'Armée at Les Invalides — Napoleon's tomb and French military history.
- Château de Vincennes — A moated medieval fortress at the eastern edge.
- Canal Saint-Martin — A Paris neighbourhood walk beside locks and bridges.
- Parc des Buttes-Chaumont — A hilly park of cliffs, lake and viewpoints.
- Paris Catacombs — Bone-lined underground passages at 14°C.
- Arab World Institute — Arab cultures framed by a light-filtering metal façade.
- Museum of Hunting and Nature — Animals and art inside an intimate townhouse museum.
- Musée Bourdelle — A sculptor's studio museum with a light-filled garden.
- Eiffel Tower & Trocadéro — See it once from Trocadéro, once from the top
- Louvre Museum — Mona Lisa over a sea of phones, the rest at your own pace
- Musée d'Orsay — Van Gogh and Monet under an old station clock
- Musée de l'Orangerie — Sit inside a ring of Monet's water lilies
- Notre-Dame de Paris — Back, bright and free, five years after the fire
- Sainte-Chapelle — A 13th-century chapel with walls made of glass
- Montmartre & Sacré-Cœur — Watch the sun set over Paris from the basilica steps
- Arc de Triomphe & Champs-Élysées — A rooftop where twelve avenues meet
- Seine river cruise (Bateaux-Mouches) — An hour on the water past the big landmarks
- Le Marais & Place des Vosges — 17th-century squares and boutique-lined lanes
- Galeries Lafayette Haussmann & rooftop — Shop under the gilded dome, then the free rooftop view
- Palais Garnier — Walk through the gilded theatre of The Phantom of the Opera
- Jardin du Luxembourg — Pull up a green chair and rest like a Parisian
- Palace of Versailles — From the Hall of Mirrors to the Grand Canal: a full day
- Mont-Saint-Michel — An abbey island rising from the tidal flats, a whole-day trip
- Musée Jacquemart-André — Renaissance art in a banker's mansion
- Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection — Contemporary art under an old grain-exchange dome
- Passage des Panoramas — Paris's oldest covered arcade, since 1799
- Galerie Vivienne — Mosaic floors and a rotunda for a rainy day
- Promenade Plantée (Coulée verte René-Dumont) — A garden walk on an old railway viaduct
- Parc Monceau — Roman columns by a pond in a rich-quarter park
- Arènes de Lutèce — Roman arena behind an archway, pétanque clacking
- Jardin des Plantes — Greenhouses, themed gardens, mosque tea next door
- Palais de Tokyo — Rough, huge contemporary art centre, open late
- Musée Marmottan Monet — Quiet mansion housing "Impression, Sunrise"