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MUSEUMS
• Musée d’Orsay
website
• Musée de Jeu de Paume
website
• Musée Marmottan
website
•
Musée Rodin website
• Musée Delacroix
website
•
Institut de Monde Arabe website
PARKS
•
Jardin du Palais Royal (1st)
• Jardin du Luxembourg
(6th)
•
Parc Monceau (17th)
• Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
(19th)
SHOPPING
DISTRICTS
• Marchée
Saint Paul, rue Saint Paul (4th)
Antique, second-hand shops.
• Rue des Rosiers (4th)
Once you find this ancient, winding street,
just continue to wander. You’ll find
shops and eating places.
• Rue de Buci, Rue de Jacob,
Rue Bonaparte (6th) Chic market and
shops. Wander down streets heading down to
Seine.
•
Ile St. Louis (4th) Galleries,
restaurants, and the café St. Louis
en Ile for croissants at breakfast or desserts.
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WALKING & TOURING
• Canal
Saint Martin. Explore
by foot, bike, or barge.
• Bateaux-Mouches. Take a
boat trip on the Seine.
•
Montmartre (18th). Climb the hills to Sacre
Cœur.
• Latin Quarter (5th) Wander
the streets and eat cheaply.
• Notre Dame (1st) Visit
the cathedral and surrounding park.
• Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre
Dame, Centre Pompidou, Sacre Coeur, and
many others. Visit
the high points of Paris.
•
Palais
du Louvre and Tuileries.
Walk
from Place de l’Ecole (1st)
through courtyards to the Louvre (IM PEI Pyramid),
across the Jardin
des Tuileries
to Place de la Concorde and up
the Champs Elysées to the
Arc de Triomphe—if your legs
can take it.
•
Les Catacombs (14th). Tour this
immense maze of ancient bones in
tunnels dug under the city below Métro Denfert
Rochereau.
OUTSIDE
PARIS
•
Château de Versailles (short
train ride, then walk to château).
• Château
Vaux-le-Vicomte (45 minutes by train, then
take taxi from train station).
•
Château
de Chantilly (45 minutes by train, then
take taxi from train station).
•
Palais de Fontainbleau (45 minutes
by train).
•
Cathédrale de Chartres (1
hour by train).
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