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France · 82 sights and 241 places to eat and drink, plus 85 bookable excursions, with why each earned a spot.

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🏛️L'Hôtel | A Curious Group of Hotels

Landmark

The smallest and most seductive of Paris's luxury hotels, L'Hôtel occupies a 19th-century townhouse on the Left Bank where Oscar Wilde spent his final…

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🕑 Monday: 7:00 AM – 1:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (152K)

🌿Jardins du Trocadéro

Nature

The grand sloping lawns and fountains of the Trocadéro frame the single most arresting view of the Eiffel Tower in all of Paris, with the iron structu…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (100K)

🏛️Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris

Landmark

Notre-Dame de Paris is the Gothic heart of France, the cathedral from which all road distances in the country are traditionally measured, and a buildi…

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🕑 Monday: 7:50 AM – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (495K)

🗿Eiffel Tower

Monument

No structure in Paris carries more weight of expectation, and the tower still delivers: standing beneath its iron lattice and looking straight up into…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 12:00 AM

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💎Moulin Rouge

Hidden gem

The red windmill on the Boulevard de Clichy has been synonymous with Parisian spectacle since 1889, and the Moulin Rouge still delivers on that promis…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.6 (171K)

🏛️Palace of Versailles

Landmark

The Sun King's incomprehensible act of architectural ego, the Palace of Versailles, is the most visited monument in France for good reason: the Hall o…

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💎Vue de Paris

Hidden gem

Perched on the upper floors of the Eiffel Tower, Vue de Paris delivers the panorama that every rooftop bar in the city is auditioning for, with the Se…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (23K)

🏛️Pont Neuf

Landmark

Despite its name meaning 'New Bridge,' Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the Seine in Paris, and crossing it still feels like a small cer…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (97K)

🏛️Galeries Lafayette Haussmann

Landmark

The grande dame of Parisian department stores, Galeries Lafayette Haussmann is as much an architectural spectacle as a shopping destination. Its Belle…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 8:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (299K)

🗿Arc de Triomphe

Monument

From the rooftop of this 50-meter triumphal arch, twelve grand avenues radiate outward across Paris in a composition Napoleon ordered but never lived…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 11:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (129K)

🌿Jardin du Luxembourg

Nature

Paris's most beloved urban garden is a masterclass in the French art of public leisure: immaculate gravel allées, rows of chestnut trees, and those fa…

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🕑 Monday: 7:30 AM – 9:15 PM

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🏛️Place du Tertre

Landmark

The cobblestoned square at the very summit of Montmartre is where Paris's portrait-painting tradition has played out in the open air for well over a c…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (5.3K)

🏛️Hôtel de Ville

Landmark

Paris's city hall is one of the grandest civic buildings in Europe, a Second Empire palace of stone and ironwork that faces a broad esplanade where an…

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🏛️Place du Trocadero

Landmark

The broad, curved esplanade of the Trocadéro offers the single most celebrated face-on view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, framed by the twin wings of…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (119K)

🌿Tuileries Garden

Nature

Stretching nearly a kilometer between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, the Tuileries is Paris's great democratic outdoor room, where Haussmann's g…

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🕑 Monday: 7:30 AM – 7:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (15K)

🖼️Musée National Picasso-Paris

Museum

Housed in the seventeenth-century Hôtel Salé in the Marais, this museum holds one of the world's largest and most personal Picasso collections, assemb…

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⛶ PHOTOS$★ 4.5 (51)

🏛️Rue Montorgueil Food market

Landmark

A long, pedestrianized market street in the 2nd arrondissement that functions as a living argument for the French conviction that buying food should b…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (256)

🏛️Republic Square Paris

Landmark

Place de la Republique is one of Paris's great civic stages, a vast, traffic-ringed plaza anchored by a towering bronze Marianne whose pedestal is etc…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 5.0 (8)

🌅Tour Eiffel alternative viewpoint

Viewpoint

While Trocadéro gets the crowds and the selfie sticks, this alternative vantage point offers a less-jostled, often more photogenic angle on Gustave Ei…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (30K)

🏛️Grand Palais

Landmark

The Grand Palais is Paris's great iron-and-glass cathedral of culture, a Belle Époque exhibition hall whose nave-like interior, capped by a 45-meter-h…

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⛶ PHOTOS$★ 4.7 (21K)

🖼️Musée Rodin

Museum

Auguste Rodin spent his final years in the Hôtel Biron, an 18th-century mansion in the 7th arrondissement, and bequeathed his entire life's work to th…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (168K)

🏛️Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre

Landmark

Perched at the summit of the Butte Montmartre, this luminous white Romano-Byzantine basilica commands a sweeping panorama over the grey zinc rooftops…

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🕑 Monday: 6:30 AM – 10:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (86K)

🏛️Louvre Pyramid

Landmark

I.M. Pei's glass pyramid, completed in 1989, is one of those rare additions to a historic city that time has entirely vindicated: what provoked fierce…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (10K)

🖼️Musée Marmottan Monet

Museum

On the quiet western edge of the city near the Bois de Boulogne, this museum holds the largest collection of Claude Monet's work in the world, includi…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (34K)

🏛️Place des Vosges

Landmark

The oldest planned square in Paris, built in 1612 under Henri IV, ringed by red-brick arcades sheltering galleries and wine bars. A perfect spot for a…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (340)

💎Square de l'Île-de-France

Hidden gem

Occupying the eastern tip of the Île de la Cité, this small garden square offers one of the most quietly affecting views in Paris: the Seine splitting…

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🖼️Louvre Museum

Museum

The Louvre is the largest art museum on earth and a former royal palace whose sheer scale, nearly 400,000 objects across more than 700 rooms, makes st…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (50K)

🗿Sainte-Chapelle

Monument

A 13th-century royal chapel whose upper level is encircled by fifteen soaring stained-glass windows, best seen when midday sun floods the interior wit…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (614)

🌿Berges de Seine

Nature

Stretching along the Left Bank between the Musée d'Orsay and the Pont de l'Alma, this car-free riverside promenade is where Parisians actually decompr…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (44K)

🏛️Hôtel des Invalides

Landmark

The gold dome of Les Invalides, glinting over the 7th arrondissement skyline, covers one of the most theatrically staged tombs in the world: Napoleon'…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.6 (29K)

🖼️Musée de l'Armée

Museum

Housed within the gilded dome complex of Les Invalides, this is one of the largest and richest military museums in the world, spanning medieval armor,…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (629)

💎Place Émile Goudeau

Hidden gem

A quiet, sloping square on the Butte Montmartre, Place Émile Goudeau is best known as the site of the Bateau-Lavoir, the ramshackle studio building wh…

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🏛️Place de la Concorde

Landmark

The largest square in Paris holds more history per square meter than almost anywhere in the country: at its center stands a 3,300-year-old Egyptian ob…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.6 (21K)

🖼️Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Museum

Jean Nouvel's copper-and-glass building near the Eiffel Tower is wrapped in a living wall of 15,000 plants and set in a wild, shaded garden that makes…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (14)

🌅Paris Viewpoint

Viewpoint

Paris rewards those who seek its high points, and the city's unofficial viewpoint culture ranges from the free terrace of the Centre Pompidou to the r…

🕑 Monday: 7:30 AM – 9:50 PM

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💎Le Marais

Hidden gem

The Marais is the neighborhood that resists any single label: a preserved medieval street plan, a thriving Jewish quarter along Rue des Rosiers, one o…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (8.3K)

🌿Square Louise Michel

Nature

The terraced gardens that cascade down the northern slope of Montmartre below Sacre-Coeur offer one of the most cinematic top-down views of Paris's ro…

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🕑 Monday: 8:00 AM – 8:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (70K)

🌿La Villette

Nature

Paris's largest park is less a garden than a full cultural ecosystem: 55 hectares of canals, lawns, and follies designed by architect Bernard Tschumi,…

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🕑 Monday: 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (9K)

🖼️Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

Museum

Paris's own modern art museum occupies a sweeping Art Deco palace on the Seine and punches well above its weight, with a permanent collection of over…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.2 (854)

💎Le Village Saint-Paul

Hidden gem

A series of interconnected courtyards tucked behind the Rue Saint-Paul in the 4th arrondissement, Le Village Saint-Paul is an antiques quarter that mo…

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🕑 Monday: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$$$★ 4.9 (219)

🏛️Pastry To Carte, Pastry And Baking Class In Paris

Landmark

A hands-on baking and pastry school designed for visitors who want to go home with more than a recipe card, Pastry To Carte leads small-group sessions…

🕑 Monday: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS$★ 4.5 (17K)

🌿Parc Floral de Paris

Nature

Tucked into the eastern edge of the Bois de Vincennes, the Parc Floral is Paris's finest botanical garden for seasonal color, with iris beds, dahlia c…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.3 (27K)

💎Place de la Bastille

Hidden gem

The Place de la Bastille is one of those rare city squares where revolution is literally written into the ground: bronze paving stones trace the footp…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (11)

💎Old Wall of Paris

Hidden gem

Fragments of Philippe Auguste's medieval city wall, built between 1190 and 1215, surface unexpectedly across central Paris: in car parks, courtyards,…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (12K)

🏛️Conciergerie

Landmark

The Conciergerie's pepper-pot towers rising from the Île de la Cité are one of Paris's oldest surviving medieval silhouettes, and inside, the scale of…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.2 (47)

🌅Point de vue Tour Eiffel & Montmartre

Viewpoint

This elevated vantage point delivers the rare double act of Paris: the Eiffel Tower to the southwest and the white dome of the Sacré-Coeur to the nort…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (10K)

🖼️Musée des Arts et Métiers

Museum

Installed inside a former priory in the 3rd arrondissement, this museum of science and technology is one of the most atmospheric and underappreciated…

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⛶ PHOTOS$★ 4.2 (1.1K)

💎Chinatown - Neighborhood - Paris

Hidden gem

Paris's main Chinatown, anchored around the Avenue d'Ivry and Avenue de Choisy in the 13th arrondissement, is one of the largest Chinese and Southeast…

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⛶ PHOTOS$$★ 4.6 (17K)

🖼️Gallery of Evolution

Museum

Inside the Jardin des Plantes, this 19th-century iron-and-glass nave houses one of the most theatrical natural history displays anywhere, a parade of…

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🌿Jardin des Plantes

Nature

France's principal botanical garden is a place of serene, slightly old-fashioned grandeur: long symmetrical allées of plane trees, historic glasshouse…

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💎Passage Lhomme

Hidden gem

Tucked off the Rue de la Roquette in the 11th arrondissement, Passage Lhomme is one of those workaday covered passages that never made it onto the gra…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (117K)

🖼️Musée d'Orsay

Museum

Housed in a Beaux-Arts railway station whose vaulted iron-and-glass nave is itself worth the entrance fee, the Musée d'Orsay holds the world's greates…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (13K)

🖼️Carnavalet Museum

Museum

The only museum dedicated entirely to the history of Paris occupies two Renaissance mansions in the Marais that are themselves part of the story, thei…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (6.5K)

🏛️Palais de Chaillot

Landmark

The curved neoclassical wings of the Palais de Chaillot frame the single most photographed view of the Eiffel Tower on earth, from the Trocadéro espla…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (8.2K)

🖼️Les Pavillons de Bercy - Musée des Arts Forains

Museum

Hidden inside a cluster of nineteenth-century wine warehouses in Bercy, this private museum is one of the most genuinely joyful places in Paris: a vas…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (916)

🌿Parc naturel régional de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse

Nature

Less than an hour south of central Paris by RER B, this regional natural park sprawls across dense oak forests, rolling farmland, and medieval château…

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🗿Panthéon

Monument

The Panthéon is Paris's secular temple to greatness, a vast neoclassical mausoleum on the Left Bank whose crypt holds the remains of Voltaire, Roussea…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 6:30 PM

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💎Rue des Degrés

Hidden gem

At roughly 5.75 metres long, Rue des Degrés in the 2nd arrondissement holds the distinction of being the shortest street in Paris, and its entire leng…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (25K)

🖼️Musée de l'Orangerie

Museum

The Orangerie exists, essentially, to house one thing: Monet's eight monumental Water Lilies panels, installed in two oval rooms that the painter hims…

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🕑 Monday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (27K)

🌿Parc des Buttes-Chaumont

Nature

In the northeast of the city where tourists rarely wander, Buttes-Chaumont is the park Parisians actually use: a dramatically landscaped terrain of cl…

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🕑 Monday: 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (408)

🏛️Tour de l'Horloge du Palais de la Cité

Landmark

Affixed to the corner of the Conciergerie on the Île de la Cité, the Tour de l'Horloge carries the first public clock ever installed in Paris, its blu…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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🖼️Musée Grévin

Museum

Paris's answer to Madame Tussauds, the Musée Grévin on the Grands Boulevards has been producing eerily lifelike wax figures since 1882 and retains eno…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

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🌿Coulée Verte René-Dumont

Nature

Long before New York's High Line, Paris converted a disused 19th-century railway viaduct into this elevated linear garden running nearly 4.7 kilometer…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.9 (12)

🌅Butte aux canons

Viewpoint

A grassy knoll in the 15th arrondissement that rewards those who climb it with a sweeping, crowd-free panorama stretching from the Eiffel Tower to the…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (5.4K)

🏛️Tour Saint-Jacques

Landmark

Rising from a small public garden on the Rue de Rivoli, the Tour Saint-Jacques is a flamboyant Gothic tower that stands alone, utterly stranded from t…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (26K)

🖼️Petit Palais

Museum

The Petit Palais is one of Paris's great underplayed pleasures: a permanently free municipal museum whose building, commissioned for the 1900 Expositi…

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🕑 Monday: Closed

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (225K)

🌿Champ de Mars

Nature

The long rectangular park rolling south from the Eiffel Tower's feet is where Parisians actually live the postcard: couples spread blankets on the gra…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (15)

🌅Point de vue Panoramique

Viewpoint

A panoramic overlook that offers an expansive read of the Parisian roofscape without the entry fees or queues of the city's famous towers. The foregro…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.3 (29K)

🌿Bois de Boulogne

Nature

The vast western lung of Paris, covering nearly 850 hectares, is a place of genuine variety: cycling paths thread through dense woodland, the Lac Infé…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (370)

🌿Lac des Minimes

Nature

Tucked in the eastern reaches of the Bois de Vincennes, the Lac des Minimes is the largest and most tranquil of the three lakes in the wood, ringed by…

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🕑 Monday: Open 24 hours

🏅 ⭐ Michelin Star 2026

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.2 (1.3K)

💎La Cave de Bourgogne

Hidden gem

A tiny, unpretentious wine shop and tasting cave tucked into the Marais, beloved by locals for its deep selection of Burgundy and Loire bottles at hon…

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🕑 Monday: 7:00 AM – 1:00 AM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (5.3K)

💎Marche des Enfants Rouges

Hidden gem

The oldest covered market in Paris, dating to 1615, tucked down a narrow Marais lane. Locals queue for Moroccan couscous, Japanese bento, Lebanese mez…

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🏅 Anthony Bourdain: The Layover

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (6.6K)

💎Galerie Vivienne

Hidden gem

The most beautiful of Paris's 19th-century covered passages, with a mosaic floor, glass-vaulted ceiling, and a wine bar at its heart. Locals duck in f…

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🕑 Monday: 8:30 AM – 8:00 PM

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🏛️Le Marais Lanes

Landmark

The medieval network of streets between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements, mixing aristocratic mansions, falafel windows, concept stores, and wine bars…

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🕑 Monday: Closed

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.8 (40K)

🏛️Pont Alexandre III

Landmark

The most ornate bridge in Paris, draped in gilded nymphs, cherubs, and Art Nouveau lanterns, with an unobstructed sightline to the Eiffel Tower. Arriv…

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🏛️Sacre-Coeur Basilica

Landmark

The white-domed basilica crowning Montmartre's hill, with one of the widest free panoramas over the Paris rooftops. Arrive early to claim the front st…

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🕑 Monday: 6:30 AM – 10:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.4 (267)

💎La Cave des Papilles

Hidden gem

A celebrated natural-wine shop and tasting cave in the 14th, a pilgrimage destination for Paris sommeliers and serious wine lovers. The selection of s…

🕑 Monday: 3:30 – 8:30 PM

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.7 (698)

🏛️Ile Saint-Louis

Landmark

The smaller, sleepier Seine island of 17th-century stone townhouses and quiet quays, famous for Berthillon ice cream and golden-hour light on the rive…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.5 (148)

💎Clos Montmartre Vineyard

Hidden gem

The last working vineyard within the Paris city limits, hidden behind a locked gate on a Montmartre hillside. Locals know to peek through the fence in…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (241)

💎Rue des Martyrs

Hidden gem

The most food-obsessed street in Paris according to locals, a steep pedestrian market lane in the 9th lined with fromageries, chocolatiers, fishmonger…

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⛶ PHOTOS★ 4.6 (26K)

💎Shakespeare and Company

Hidden gem

The legendary English-language bookshop across the river from Notre-Dame, once a haven for Hemingway and the Beat poets. Squeaky floors, free reading…

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🕑 Monday: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM

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🏛️Place Furstemberg

Landmark

This tiny, lamp-lit square in Saint-Germain-des-Pres is widely considered the most romantically proportioned public space in Paris, a claim that is di…

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