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Viewpoint· Champ de Mars
Eiffel Tower
Gustave Eiffel's wrought-iron tower, built for the 1889 World's Fair. Its platforms look out over the bends of the Seine and the zinc rooftops of the whole city.
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Museums & culture· Louvre
The Louvre
The former royal palace turned into the world's most visited museum, with I. M. Pei's glass pyramid in the courtyard. Home to the Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory and the Venus de Milo.
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Museums & culture· Île de la Cité
Notre-Dame Cathedral
The great Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, reopened in December 2024 after the 2019 fire. The restoration has brought back the pale stone of the nave and the glow of its rose windows.
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Museums & culture· Île de la Cité
Sainte-Chapelle
A 13th-century Gothic chapel built by Saint Louis inside the royal palace. The upper chapel is almost entirely glass: fifteen soaring windows that tell the Bible in coloured light.
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Museums & culture· Saint-Germain
Musée d'Orsay
A 1900 railway station that now holds the world's largest Impressionist collection, with Monet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh under the iron-and-glass vault and its giant clock.
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Viewpoint· Montmartre
Sacré-Cœur and Montmartre
The white basilica crowns the hill of Montmartre, and its steps are one of the great balconies over Paris. Around it lie the steep lanes and painters' square of the old village.
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Viewpoint· Champs-Élysées
Arc de Triomphe
Napoleon's triumphal arch stands at the centre of the Étoile, where twelve avenues meet. From its rooftop the Champs-Élysées run in a straight line all the way to the Louvre.
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Nature & beaches· Saint-Germain
Luxembourg Gardens
The garden of the palace that now houses the French Senate, with its toy-boat pond, the Medici Fountain and green chairs scattered among flowerbeds and chestnut alleys.
Nature & beaches· Louvre
Tuileries Garden
The formal French garden linking the Louvre to Place de la Concorde, with ponds, statues and gravel walks laid out along the city's great historic axis.
Museums & culture· Louvre
Musée de l'Orangerie
At the end of the Tuileries, two oval rooms designed with Monet for his Water Lilies wrap around you in natural light. Downstairs hang works by Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso.
Museums & culture· Invalides
Musée Rodin
The 18th-century mansion where Rodin worked, with his sculpture inside and out in a rose garden where The Thinker and The Gates of Hell stand among the hedges.
Museums & culture· Invalides
Les Invalides
Louis XIV's hospital for veterans, now home to the Army Museum. Beneath its gilded dome Napoleon lies in a red quartzite sarcophagus.
Museums & culture· Latin Quarter
The Panthéon
A neoclassical temple on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève where France buries its great figures, from Voltaire and Victor Hugo to Marie Curie. Foucault's pendulum swings beneath the dome.
Museums & culture· Opéra
Palais Garnier
The Second Empire opera house, all marble, gilt and velvet. Its grand staircase and the Chagall ceiling over the auditorium inspired The Phantom of the Opera.
Special place· Le Marais
Place des Vosges
The oldest planned square in Paris, a perfect quadrangle of red-brick houses over stone arcades in the heart of the Marais. Victor Hugo's former home sits in one corner.
Special place· Invalides
Pont Alexandre III
The most ornate bridge on the Seine, lined with lamps, nymphs and gilded winged horses. A single steel arch links Les Invalides to the Grand Palais.
Special place· Belleville
Père Lachaise Cemetery
A city of tombs among trees and cobbled lanes, where Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf and Jim Morrison are buried. It's the most visited cemetery in the world.
Viewpoint· Passy
Trocadéro
The terrace of the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine, frames the classic view of the Eiffel Tower, with gardens and fountains tumbling down to the river.
Nature & beaches· Canal Saint-Martin
Canal Saint-Martin
A 19th-century canal of locks, iron footbridges and plane trees along the banks. Parisians come here to stroll, with cafés and small shops lining the quays.
Nature & beaches· Latin Quarter
Jardin des Plantes
Paris's botanical garden since the 17th century, with iron-and-glass greenhouses, a rose garden and the Grand Gallery of Evolution and its parade of stuffed animals.
Nature & beaches· Belleville
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
A romantic park laid out over old quarries, with a lake, a waterfall and a little temple perched on a rocky outcrop. From the top you look across to Montmartre and Sacré-Cœur.
Shopping· Opéra
Galeries Lafayette
The 1912 department store on Boulevard Haussmann, with an Art Nouveau stained-glass dome over its atrium and a rooftop looking out to the Opéra and the Eiffel Tower.
Shopping· Le Marais
Marché des Enfants Rouges
The oldest covered market in Paris, dating from the 17th century in the northern Marais. Between the greengrocers and cheese stalls are food counters from around the world with shared tables.
Restaurant· Grands Boulevards
Bouillon Chartier
An 1896 workers' dining hall that still has its mirrors, brass coat racks and waiters in black waistcoats, serving classic French dishes at shared tables.
Restaurant· Saint-Germain
Le Procope
Opened in 1686, it claims to be the oldest café in Paris, once frequented by Voltaire, Diderot and Benjamin Franklin. Today it's a restaurant serving traditional French food.
Restaurant· Gare de Lyon
Le Train Bleu
The Gare de Lyon station restaurant, opened in 1901, with gilded Belle Époque rooms and ceilings painted with scenes from the railway line to the Mediterranean.
Restaurant· Le Marais
L'As du Fallafel
The best-known falafel counter on Rue des Rosiers, in the old Jewish quarter of the Marais. Order at the window and eat on the street or in the small dining room.
Café· Saint-Germain
Café de Flore
The Art Deco café on Boulevard Saint-Germain where Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir used to write. It keeps its red banquettes, mirrors and pavement terrace.
Café· Saint-Germain
Les Deux Magots
The Flore's neighbour and rival, facing the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Two carved Chinese figures watch over the room where Hemingway, Picasso and the Surrealists met.
Café· Louvre
Angelina
A 1903 tea room under the arcades of Rue de Rivoli, opposite the Tuileries. It's known for its thick hot chocolate and the chestnut Mont-Blanc pastry.
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Paris works best neighbourhood by neighbourhood: the Île de la Cité, the Louvre and the Tuileries, Left Bank Saint-Germain and the hill of Montmartre, all stitched together by the Métro and the bridges over the Seine. We've gathered the landmarks, museums, viewpoints, gardens and classic tables worth the trip. Pick a collection, save it to Google Maps and have it ready on your phone.
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