Attractions & Tours
Things to Do in Paris
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28 attractions
Historic Sites
Paris Historic Sites
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Palace of Versailles
Louis XIV's staggering royal palace just outside Paris — the dazzling Hall of Mirrors, opulent state apartments, and vast formal gardens with fountains, the Grand Trianon, and Marie Antoinette's estate. A day-trip essential.
Sainte-Chapelle
A 13th-century Gothic jewel on the Île de la Cité — its upper chapel a breathtaking cage of stained glass, with 15 soaring windows of biblical scenes that bathe the interior in colored light. One of the most beautiful spaces in Paris.
Catacombs of Paris
An eerie underground ossuary beneath the city — miles of former quarry tunnels lined with the carefully arranged bones of millions of Parisians, relocated here over two centuries ago. A haunting, unforgettable descent.
Notre-Dame Cathedral
The Gothic masterpiece on the Île de la Cité, reopened in December 2024 after the 2019 fire — soaring nave, rose windows, and gargoyles at the very heart of Paris. Free to enter; the towers climb is separately ticketed.
Conciergerie
The Revolution's antechamber of the guillotine — the medieval palace on the Seine where Marie-Antoinette waited: Europe's grandest Gothic hall, the prisoners' corridors, and the HistoPad resurrecting both lives of the building.
Père Lachaise Cemetery
The most visited cemetery on Earth — 44 hillside hectares of cobbled lanes and chestnut shade where Wilde, Piaf, Chopin and Morrison rest: a free open-air museum of sculpture, lives and pilgrimages.
Covered Passages of Paris
The 19th century's secret arcades — glass-roofed shopping galleries threading the 2nd and 9th: Galerie Vivienne's mosaics, Passage des Panoramas's stamp dealers and bistros, toy shops and tea rooms in the Belle Époque's original malls.
Landmarks
Paris Landmarks
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Eiffel Tower
The symbol of Paris — Gustave Eiffel's 1889 iron tower soaring over the city, with three visitor levels, a glass floor, restaurants, and a summit view that's the definitive Paris experience. Book ahead to skip the lines.
Arc de Triomphe
Napoleon's monumental triumphal arch at the top of the Champs-Élysées — honoring France's armies, sheltering the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and offering a rooftop view down the twelve radiating avenues of the Étoile.
Palais Garnier (Opéra)
Paris's opulent 19th-century opera house — a riot of marble, gold, and chandeliers, with a sweeping Grand Staircase, a mirrored Grand Foyer, and a ceiling painted by Chagall. The inspiration for The Phantom of the Opera.
Sacré-Cœur & Montmartre
The white-domed basilica crowning Montmartre, the highest point in Paris — sweeping free views over the whole city, and the winding, village-like streets of the old artists' quarter just below, with its square of painters and cafés.
Panthéon
The republic's temple of great lives — the Latin Quarter's colonnaded dome over the crypt of Voltaire, Hugo, Curie and Dumas: Foucault's pendulum swinging under the vault, and the colonnade walk with all Paris below.
Montparnasse Tower Observation Deck
The view WITH the Eiffel Tower in it — 56 floors up in 38 seconds to the glassed-in deck and open rooftop at 210 meters: the whole city in one sweep, champagne at sunset, and the skyline's best-kept logic: you cannot see the tower FROM the tower.
Museums
Paris Museums
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The Louvre Museum
The world's largest and most-visited art museum — a former royal palace holding the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and 35,000 works across millennia, entered through I.M. Pei's glass pyramid. Plan ahead and pick your highlights.
Musée d'Orsay
The world's great collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art — Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Degas, Cézanne — housed in a magnificent former Belle Époque railway station with its iconic giant clock.
Musée de l'Orangerie
An intimate museum in the Tuileries built around Monet's monumental Water Lilies — eight vast panels filling two oval rooms designed to immerse you in his garden at Giverny — plus a superb collection of Impressionist and modern masters.
Musée Rodin
The sculptor Auguste Rodin's works in an elegant 18th-century mansion and its beautiful sculpture garden — The Thinker, The Kiss, and The Gates of Hell among rose beds and lawns in the 7th, near Les Invalides.
Les Invalides & Army Museum
The golden-domed landmark of the 7th — home to the Army Museum's sweep of French military history and, beneath the glittering Dôme church, the grand tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Musée Picasso Paris
The world's deepest Picasso trove in a Marais mansion — 5,000 works the artist kept for himself, paid to France in lieu of taxes: the whole life from Blue Period to final years, in the Hôtel Salé's baroque splendor.
Parks & Gardens
Paris Parks & Gardens
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Jardin du Luxembourg
The most beloved garden in Paris — the Senate's 25 hectares of green chairs, toy sailboats on the octagonal basin, chestnut allées, bee school and orchid orchards: the Left Bank's living room, free since forever.
Jardin des Tuileries
The axis of Paris — Le Nôtre's royal garden running from the Louvre to the Concorde: green chairs around the round ponds, allées aimed at the Arc de Triomphe, Maillol bronzes under the chestnuts, and the Orangerie at the far corner.
Neighborhoods
Paris Neighborhoods
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Le Marais
The Paris that survived — pre-revolutionary mansions on medieval lanes, Place des Vosges's pink arcades, the rue des Rosiers falafel rite, gallery streets and queer nightlife: the city's best wandering quarter, free by the hour.
Canal Saint-Martin
Napoleon's canal turned the city's coolest promenade — iron footbridges over green water, locks working like slow theater, Amélie's skipping stones, picnic quays and the 10th's café-boutique tier along the banks.
Cruises
Paris Cruises
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Tours
Paris Tours
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Theme Parks
Paris Theme Parks
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Family Fun
Paris Family Fun
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Arts & Culture
Paris Arts & Culture
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