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The Latin Quarter

Tapestries, a pendulum, a mosque and a botanical garden, all within a few streets.

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Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)
Photograph: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). / CC BY-SA 4.0

Day 1

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 7h at the sights, 53m travelling · 4.4 km

Areas: Latin Quarter

  1. Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) — The English-language bookshop facing Notre-Dame across the river (30m)
  2. Musée de Cluny — The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, over a Roman bath house (1h 30m)
  3. Panthéon — Neoclassical mausoleum of the Republic's great, with Foucault's pendulum (1h 15m)
  4. Grand Mosque of Paris — Hispano-Moorish courtyards, a tiled patio and a tearoom (45m)
  5. Jardin des Plantes — The botanical garden, with greenhouses and the natural history galleries (1h 30m)
  6. Institut du monde arabe — Nouvel's photo-sensitive screen wall, and a roof terrace above the Seine (1h 30m)