Paris

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Neighbourhoods

Louvre & Tuileries

The monumental heart of the Right Bank — I.M. Pei's glass pyramid, the Tuileries' gravel allées and fountains, and the Palais-Royal's quiet arcaded garden, all walkable along the Seine.

Le Marais

The historic aristocratic quarter turned Paris's hippest district — 17th-century mansions, Picasso's private townhouse, and the Pletzl's falafel counters packed into a few walkable, car-light blocks straddling the 3rd and 4th arrondissements.

Île de la Cité & Latin Quarter

Two Seine islands cradle Notre-Dame's rebuilt spire and Sainte-Chapelle's stained glass, while the steep, market-lined lanes of the Left Bank climb past the Panthéon's dome to Rue Mouffetard's crêpe stands and the Sorbonne's oldest bookshops.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés & Orsay

Cobbled Left Bank streets where Sartre and Hemingway once argued in cafés, framed by the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist collection and the bell tower of Paris's oldest church.

Eiffel Tower & Trocadéro

The Eiffel Tower rises straight from the wide lawns of the Champ de Mars while, across the Seine, the Trocadéro's terrace and the Palais de Chaillot's twin curved wings frame the postcard view every visitor comes for.

Montmartre

A hilltop artists' village of steep cobbled stairways and café terraces, crowned by the Sacré-Cœur's white domes and Paris's finest skyline view.

Opéra & Grands Boulevards

Charles Garnier's opulent opera house anchors a quarter of glass-roofed 19th-century shopping passages — Galerie Vivienne's mosaic floors, Passage des Panoramas' oldest gaslit arcade — and the domed, stained-glass tea room atop Galeries Lafayette. By day it's Haussmann-era grand boulevards and department-store window shopping; by evening, the opera crowd fills the surrounding brasseries.

Canal Saint-Martin

A slower, younger Paris along the Canal Saint-Martin's iron footbridges and plane-tree quays, where locals picnic on the cobbled banks and queue for natural wine at rue de Marseille's café terraces. République's cafés and bars spill into the surrounding streets after dark, making this the neighborhood Parisians actually go out in rather than the one postcards show.

Montparnasse

The old artists' quarter south of Saint-Germain — the 1920s crêperies of rue du Montparnasse still serve the Breton buckwheat galettes that fed a generation of émigré artists, and the Art Deco brasseries they argued in still run full dining rooms. Wander the Cimetière du Montparnasse, resting place of Baudelaire, Sartre and Gainsbourg, and duck into the free studio-museums of sculptors Bourdelle and Zadkine tucked into the side streets. (The Tour Montparnasse observation deck is closed for renovation until about 2030.)

Belleville & Ménilmontant

Paris's most mixed, least manicured hillside quarter — Chinese and Southeast Asian kitchens along Boulevard de Belleville, spray-painted murals crowding rue Dénoyez, and the terraced Parc de Belleville's rooftop-level view over the whole city. At its southern edge, the wooded avenues of Père Lachaise cemetery hold Piaf, Chopin and Jim Morrison among a million other graves, best entered from the quieter Gambetta side.

Disneyland Paris (Marne-la-Vallée)

Europe's biggest theme-park resort, 35–40 minutes east of central Paris on the RER A: Disneyland Park's classic castle rides, the newly relaunched Disney Adventure World (the former Walt Disney Studios Park, reborn in March 2026 with World of Frozen), and the free-to-enter Disney Village for dining and shopping. Each park is a full day on its own — buy a dated ticket ahead and pick one per visit.

Getting there

Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)

RER B to the centre ~35–50 min; or the Roissybus to Opéra.

Orly Airport (ORY)

Orlyval + RER B, or tram T7 / Orlybus ~35–45 min to the centre.

Gare du Nord (Eurostar/Thalys)

Eurostar to London ~2h20, Thalys to Brussels/Amsterdam; Métro 4/5 + RER B/D/E.

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