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Paris at length

Everything the other routes cover, spread over unhurried days with nothing rushed.

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Square du Vert-Galant
Photograph: Inocybe - Piero d'Houin / CC BY-SA 3.0

Day 1

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 5h 30m at the sights, 32m travelling · 2.7 km

Areas: Île de la Cité, Latin Quarter

  1. Square du Vert-Galant — The willow-shaded prow at the western tip of the island (25m)
  2. Pont Neuf — Despite the name, the oldest standing bridge over the Seine (20m)
  3. Sainte-Chapelle — Fifteen windows of thirteenth-century glass in a single upper room (45m)
  4. Conciergerie — The medieval royal palace that became the Revolution's prison (1h)
  5. Notre-Dame de Paris — The Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, reopened after the 2019 fire (1h)
  6. Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) — The English-language bookshop facing Notre-Dame across the river (30m)
  7. Musée de Cluny — The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, over a Roman bath house (1h 30m)

Day 2

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 8h 25m at the sights, 1h 04m travelling · 6.0 km

Areas: 1st arrondissement, Tuileries, 2nd arrondissement, Opéra

  1. Louvre — The largest art museum on earth, in a palace, behind a glass pyramid (3h 30m)
  2. Tuileries Garden — The formal garden between the Louvre and the Concorde (45m)
  3. Musée de l'Orangerie — Monet's Water Lilies in two oval rooms built for them (1h 15m)
  4. Place de la Concorde — The largest square in Paris, with an Egyptian obelisk at its centre (30m)
  5. Palais-Royal — Arcaded gardens behind the Louvre, with Buren's striped columns (45m)
  6. Passage des Panoramas — The oldest of the glass-roofed arcades, full of stamp dealers and bistros (40m)
  7. Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann — A department store under a 1912 stained-glass dome (1h)

Day 3

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 8h at the sights, 56m travelling · 6.5 km

Areas: Opéra, 7th arrondissement

  1. Palais Garnier — Garnier's opera house, all marble staircase, gold and Chagall ceiling (1h 15m)
  2. Musée d'Orsay — Impressionism in a converted railway station, under the great clock (2h 30m)
  3. Musée Rodin — The Thinker and the Gates of Hell in a mansion with a sculpture garden (1h 30m)
  4. Rue Cler — A short market street near the Invalides, cobbled and pedestrian (45m)
  5. Les Invalides — The gilded dome over Napoleon's tomb, and the army museum beneath (2h)

Day 4

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 7h 55m at the sights, 1h 11m travelling · 10 km

Areas: 7th arrondissement, Champ-de-Mars, 16th arrondissement, 8th arrondissement, Champs-Élysées

  1. Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac — Art of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas behind a living wall (2h)
  2. Eiffel Tower — Gustave Eiffel's 330-metre iron tower, the one unmistakable thing on the skyline (2h)
  3. Place du Trocadéro — The terrace that frames the Eiffel Tower across the river (30m)
  4. Palais de Tokyo — Raw concrete halls given over to contemporary art, open late (1h 30m)
  5. La Madeleine, Paris — A Roman temple from the outside, a church within (40m)
  6. Petit Palais — The city's fine-art museum, free, with a garden courtyard (1h 15m)

Day 5

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 8h 30m at the sights, 1h 14m travelling · 11 km

Areas: Champs-Élysées, 8th arrondissement, Montmartre

  1. Grand Palais — A glass and iron nave built for the 1900 World's Fair (1h 15m)
  2. Champs-Élysées — The two-kilometre avenue from the Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe (1h)
  3. Arc de Triomphe — Napoleon's arch at the top of the Champs-Élysées, with a roof terrace (1h)
  4. Parc Monceau — An English-style park with a colonnade and scattered follies (45m)
  5. Musée Jacquemart-André — A collector's mansion left exactly as its owners arranged it (1h 30m)
  6. Sacré-Cœur, Paris — The white basilica on the butte, and the best free view in the city (1h)
  7. Place du Tertre — The small square behind Sacré-Cœur, full of portrait painters (30m)
  8. Montmartre — The hill village the city grew around, steep, cobbled and crowded (1h 30m)

Day 6

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 7h 25m at the sights, 1h 20m travelling · 15 km

Areas: Pigalle, Saint-Ouen, 4th arrondissement, Le Marais, Bastille

  1. Moulin Rouge — The red windmill on the Boulevard de Clichy, open since 1889 (30m)
  2. Saint-Ouen flea market — The largest antiques market in the world, spread over fifteen markets (2h)
  3. Hôtel de Ville, Paris — The city hall, rebuilt after the Commune in exuberant Renaissance revival (30m)
  4. Musée Carnavalet — The history of Paris itself, free, in two Marais mansions (2h)
  5. Musée Picasso — The largest Picasso collection anywhere, in a Marais mansion (1h 30m)
  6. Place des Vosges — The oldest planned square in Paris, arcaded in red brick (30m)
  7. Place de la Bastille — Where the prison stood, now a column and a traffic circle (25m)

Day 7

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 8h 25m at the sights, 1h 17m travelling · 11 km

Areas: Beaubourg, 3rd arrondissement, 14th arrondissement, Latin Quarter, Saint-Germain

  1. Centre Pompidou — Modern art behind the inside-out pipes of Rogers and Piano (2h)
  2. Musée des Arts et Métiers — Machines, clocks and Foucault's pendulum in a deconsecrated priory (1h 30m)
  3. Catacombs of Paris — Twenty metres down, the bones of six million Parisians, stacked (1h 15m)
  4. Panthéon — Neoclassical mausoleum of the Republic's great, with Foucault's pendulum (1h 15m)
  5. Saint-Sulpice, Paris — The second largest church in Paris, with Delacroix murals and a gnomon (45m)
  6. Saint-Germain-des-Prés (church) — The oldest church in Paris, repainted in its medieval colours (40m)
  7. Jardin du Luxembourg — Formal gardens round the Senate, with green chairs and a toy-boat pond (1h)

Day 8

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 8h 15m at the sights, 1h 06m travelling · 11 km

Areas: Latin Quarter, 10th arrondissement, 19th arrondissement, La Villette

  1. Grand Mosque of Paris — Hispano-Moorish courtyards, a tiled patio and a tearoom (45m)
  2. Jardin des Plantes — The botanical garden, with greenhouses and the natural history galleries (1h 30m)
  3. Institut du monde arabe — Nouvel's photo-sensitive screen wall, and a roof terrace above the Seine (1h 30m)
  4. Canal Saint-Martin — Iron footbridges, plane trees and nine locks through the 10th (1h 15m)
  5. Parc des Buttes Chaumont — Cliffs, a lake and a temple on a crag, built on an old quarry (1h 15m)
  6. Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie — Europe's largest science museum, with the mirrored Géode beside it (2h)

Day 9

Starts from Central Paris (Châtelet) · 7h 45m at the sights, 1h 38m travelling · 37 km

Areas: La Villette, 20th arrondissement, 12th arrondissement, Versailles

  1. Parc de la Villette — The largest park in Paris, scattered with bright red follies (1h)
  2. Père Lachaise Cemetery — The most visited cemetery in the world, cobbled and wooded (1h 30m)
  3. Coulée verte René-Dumont — A planted walk along a disused viaduct, the first of its kind (1h 15m)
  4. Palace of Versailles — Louis XIV's palace, the Hall of Mirrors and the gardens behind it (4h)