This is the Arc de Triomphe, a 16-story war monument conceived by Napoleon, designed by architect Jean-François Chalgrin, and built at the top of the avenue des Champs-Elysees. It was constructed between 1810 and 1836. It is possible to reach the roof of the monument by climbing nearly three hundr[...]

Les Invalides in Paris, France, is a complex of buildings in the city's 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose. The buildings house the Musée d[...]

Notre Dame de Paris ('Our Lady of Paris' in French) is a Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. It is the cathedral of the Catholic archdiocese of Paris: that is, it is the church that contains t[...]

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- Museums

Nestled within the Marais, the Musée Carnavalet chronicles the history of the capital from its origins to our day. It is housed in two mansions built in the 11th and 17th centuries, with a gallery now leading from one to the other. The Hôtel Carnavalet, after which the museum is named, was once th[...]

The Army museum, created in 1905, is housed in the prestigious setting of the "Hôtel National des Invalides". It is a result of the merger of the musée d'Artillerie(1796/97) and the musée historique de l'Armée created 100 years later following the World Fair. It comprises a museum and two church[...]

Formerly the residence of the Kings of France, the Louvre is one of the French capital’s most renowned sites. With its rich past and collections, it is one of the world’s greatest museums. Its exhibition areas are divided into eight major sections: Near Eastern Antiquities; Egyptian Antiquities;[...]

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- Food and Restaurants

This is a Left Bank institution. On the day of Paris's liberation in 1944, late owner Roger Cazes welcomed Hemingway as the first man to drop in for a drink. Since its acquisition a few years ago by members of the Bertrand Group (the force behind Paris's St. James Club), the mechanics whereby you ca[...]

Opened in 1896, this unpretentious fin-de-siècle restaurant is now an official historic monument featuring a whimsical mural with trees, a flowering staircase, and an early depiction of an airplane (it was painted in 1929 by an artist who traded his work for food). The menu follows brasserie-style [...]

This world-renowned cavernous spot with Art Deco murals practically defines the term brasserie. La Coupole might have lost its intellectual aura since the Flo group's restoration, but it has been popular since Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were regulars and is still great fun. Today it att[...]

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- Places to go

Le Crazy Horse Saloon or Le Crazy Horse de Paris is a Parisian cabaret known for its stage shows performed by nude female dancers. Its owners have helped to create related shows in other cities, and unrelated businesses have used the phrase "Crazy Horse" in their names.[...]

50 triumphant years and still the latest thing! Can the Lido de Paris still be described as a "cabaret" ? To ensure perfect visibility for everyone in the audience, the 1150-seat panoramic theater has been designed without columns. A single 45-meter prestressed concrete beam provides the necessary l[...]

Le Moulin Rouge is the prestigious Cabaret of Paris with 60 Doriss Girls, 1000 new costumes of feathers, rhinestones and sequins, amazing international attractions, the famous French Cancan, and the giant Aquarius are waiting for you! [...]

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- Shops

The oldest grands magazin of Paris, and the only one on the Left Bank. Its épicerie - food market - is the city's largest at 2,700 square metres. You can find everything. [...]

The choice at this auction-house supermarket is immense. Everything from furniture to art to wine is on offer here. For the convenience of buyers, viewings are held before the sale begins. Other things that go on auction include jewelry, musical instruments and antique watches. There is so much to s[...]

Five floors dedicated to fashion and beauty. But also a section reserved exclusively for the young with a café-restaurant and Dj. Another, more sophisticated, reserved only for men…The Galeries Lafayette even puts a personal shopper at your disposal to help guide you in your choice. Allowing you[...]

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- Shows and Events

Moulin Rouge (French for Red Windmill) is a cabaret built in 1889. Close to Montmartre in the Paris red-light district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the facsimile of a red windmill on its roof. The Moulin Rouge is best known as the spiritual birthplace[...]

The Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra de Paris or Opéra Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Opéra, is a 2,200-seat opera house. A grand landmark designed by Charles Garnier in the Neo-Baroque style, it is regarded as one of the architectural masterpieces of its time. Upon its inaugurati[...]

The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. The theatre has also been known as the Théâtre-Nautique and as the théâtre de la République. The best-known playwright associated with the Comédie-Française is Molière. He was considere[...]

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- Surroundings

The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles, it is known as the Château de Versailles. When the château was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a suburb of Paris, some twenty kilometers southwest of the French capital. From 1682, whe[...]

is a city of the Champagne-Ardenne region in northeastern France. It lies 129 km (80 miles) east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire. Reims played a very important role in French history, as the place where the kings of France were [...]

Massive walls measuring more than half a mile in circumference surround one of Europe's great attractions, the island of Mont-St-Michel. Connected to the shore by a causeway, it crowns a rocky islet at the border between Normandy and Brittany. The rock is 78m (256 ft.) high.[...]

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- Unusual Tours

The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris are a famous underground ossuary in Paris, France. Organized in a renovated section of the city's vast network of subterranean tunnels and caverns towards the end of the 18th century, it became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th ce[...]

This cemetery, established in 1795, lies west of Montmartre and north of boulevard de Clichy. Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, novelist Alexandre Dumas fils, impressionist Edgar Degas, and composers Hector Berlioz and Jacques Offenbach are interred here, along with Stendhal and lesser literary lights[...]

Everybody from Sarah Bernhardt to Oscar Wilde to Richard Wright is resting here, along with Honoré de Balzac, Jacques-Louis David, Eugène Delacroix, Maria Callas, Max Ernst, and Georges Bizet. Colette was taken here in 1954; her black granite slab always sports flowers, and legend has it that cats[...]

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