Every sight in Paris
A guide to every sight in Paris, with a map and a day-by-day planner that keeps each day under ten hours.
Latin Quarter
- PanthéonNeoclassical mausoleum of the Republic's great, with Foucault's pendulum
- Jardin du LuxembourgFormal gardens round the Senate, with green chairs and a toy-boat pond
- Institut du monde arabeNouvel's photo-sensitive screen wall, and a roof terrace above the Seine
- Jardin des PlantesThe botanical garden, with greenhouses and the natural history galleries
- Grand Mosque of ParisHispano-Moorish courtyards, a tiled patio and a tearoom
- Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)The English-language bookshop facing Notre-Dame across the river
- Musée de ClunyThe Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, over a Roman bath house
Île de la Cité
- Notre-Dame de ParisThe Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, reopened after the 2019 fire
- Sainte-ChapelleFifteen windows of thirteenth-century glass in a single upper room
- Pont NeufDespite the name, the oldest standing bridge over the Seine
- ConciergerieThe medieval royal palace that became the Revolution's prison
- Pont des ArtsThe wooden footbridge between the Louvre and the Institut de France
- Square du Vert-GalantThe willow-shaded prow at the western tip of the island
7th arrondissement
- Musée d'OrsayImpressionism in a converted railway station, under the great clock
- Musée RodinThe Thinker and the Gates of Hell in a mansion with a sculpture garden
- Les InvalidesThe gilded dome over Napoleon's tomb, and the army museum beneath
- Pont Alexandre IIIThe most ornate bridge in Paris, gilded at all four corners
- Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques ChiracArt of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas behind a living wall
- Rue ClerA short market street near the Invalides, cobbled and pedestrian
1st arrondissement
- LouvreThe largest art museum on earth, in a palace, behind a glass pyramid
- Place de la ConcordeThe largest square in Paris, with an Egyptian obelisk at its centre
- Tuileries GardenThe formal garden between the Louvre and the Concorde
- Palais-RoyalArcaded gardens behind the Louvre, with Buren's striped columns
Champs-Élysées
- Arc de TriompheNapoleon's arch at the top of the Champs-Élysées, with a roof terrace
- Champs-ÉlyséesThe two-kilometre avenue from the Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe
- Grand PalaisA glass and iron nave built for the 1900 World's Fair
- Petit PalaisThe city's fine-art museum, free, with a garden courtyard
16th arrondissement
- Bois de BoulogneThe city's western wood, with lakes, gardens and racecourses
- Palais de TokyoRaw concrete halls given over to contemporary art, open late
- Place du TrocadéroThe terrace that frames the Eiffel Tower across the river
- Musée Marmottan MonetThe largest Monet collection, including Impression, Sunrise
8th arrondissement
- La Madeleine, ParisA Roman temple from the outside, a church within
- Parc MonceauAn English-style park with a colonnade and scattered follies
- Musée Jacquemart-AndréA collector's mansion left exactly as its owners arranged it
- Chapelle expiatoireA quiet chapel where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were first buried
Montmartre
- Sacré-Cœur, ParisThe white basilica on the butte, and the best free view in the city
- MontmartreThe hill village the city grew around, steep, cobbled and crowded
- Place du TertreThe small square behind Sacré-Cœur, full of portrait painters
Le Marais
- Musée PicassoThe largest Picasso collection anywhere, in a Marais mansion
- Place des VosgesThe oldest planned square in Paris, arcaded in red brick
- Musée CarnavaletThe history of Paris itself, free, in two Marais mansions
La Villette
- Parc de la VilletteThe largest park in Paris, scattered with bright red follies
- Cité des Sciences et de l'IndustrieEurope's largest science museum, with the mirrored Géode beside it
- Philharmonie de ParisJean Nouvel's concert hall, clad in a flock of aluminium birds
Opéra
- Palais GarnierGarnier's opera house, all marble staircase, gold and Chagall ceiling
- Galeries Lafayette Paris HaussmannA department store under a 1912 stained-glass dome
Saint-Germain
- Saint-Sulpice, ParisThe second largest church in Paris, with Delacroix murals and a gnomon
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés (church)The oldest church in Paris, repainted in its medieval colours
Bastille
- Place de la BastilleWhere the prison stood, now a column and a traffic circle
- Opéra BastilleThe glass opera house of 1989, where most of the repertoire is staged
2nd arrondissement
- Rue MontorgueilA pedestrian market street of bakers, fishmongers and cafés
- Passage des PanoramasThe oldest of the glass-roofed arcades, full of stamp dealers and bistros