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Paris Travel Guide
Everything you need to plan your Paris trip — attractions, neighborhoods, weather, budget, and ready-made itineraries.
Everything you need to plan your Paris trip — attractions, neighborhoods, weather, budget, and ready-made itineraries.
Paris rewards slow travel more than almost any capital in Europe. Its neighborhoods each hold a distinct rhythm — the Marais's narrow medieval streets, Saint-Germain's café culture, Belleville's street art and immigrant food scenes — so the best trips mix one or two major landmarks a day with long, unhurried walks. Museums here are genuinely world-class, but the city's real texture is in its markets, its parks at golden hour, and the ordinary ritual of a coffee taken standing at a zinc bar.
Book summit tickets online at least two weeks ahead — the second floor is less crowded and nearly as good for photos.
Enter via the Carrousel du Louvre underground mall to skip the pyramid queue entirely.
Go before 9am to have the steps and the artists' square to yourself before the tour groups arrive.
Arrive at opening, then walk along the Seine to Notre-Dame and Sainte-Chapelle.
Lunch near Rue Mouffetard, then rest in the gardens before the crowds thin out.
Watch from Trocadéro, then walk across the Pont d'Iéna as the tower lights up.
Louvre, Île de la Cité, Eiffel Tower — the essential first day.
Morning in Montmartre, afternoon exploring Marais boutiques and Place des Vosges.
Full day at the palace and gardens — book the RER ticket in advance.
Same as the 3-day plan above, at a slightly slower pace.
Impressionist galleries in the morning, café-hopping in the afternoon.
A local, less-touristed side of the city — street art, food markets, canal-side picnics.
Everything from the 5-day plan.
Monet's gardens — best from May through July when the water lilies bloom.
Leave the last day loose — a market, a final café, no fixed plan.
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