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Notre Dame
ÎLE DE LA CITÉ AND ÎLE ST-LOUIS
Île de la Cité
}01 53 10 07 00
Centuries before it witnessed Quasimodo’s attempts to rescue Esmeralda, Notre Dame was the site of a Roman temple to Jup…
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Sainte-Chapelle
ÎLE DE LA CITÉ AND ÎLE ST-LOUIS
6 bd du Palais
}01 53 40 60 97; www.monuments-nationaux.fr
Everybody needs the occasional diversion to get through a service. Take the 13th-century equivalent of TVs in church: th…
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Musée du Louvre
CHÂTELET-LES HALLES
rue de Rivoli
}01 40 20 53 17; www.louvre.fr
Try as you might, it’s impossible to see everything in the Louvre. The museum’s miles (yes, miles) of galleries stretch …
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Jardin des Tuileries
CHÂTELET-LES HALLES
pl. de la Concorde, rue de Rivoli
Covering the distance from the Louvre to the pl. de la Concorde, the Tuileries are a favorite of tourists during the sum…
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Église Saint-Eustache
CHÂTELET-LES HALLES
2 rue du Jour
}01 42 36 31 05; www.saint-eustache.org
What do Cardinal Richelieu, Molière, Louis XIV, and Mme. de Pompadour have in common? Église St-Eustache is where each o…
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Centre Pompidou
THE MARAIS
pl. Georges Pompidou, rue Beaubourg
}01 44 78 12 33; www.centrepompidou.fr
Though describing the exterior of the Pompidou in words is almost impossible, we’ll give it a shot: the exterior of the …
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Musée Carnavalet
THE MARAIS
23 rue de Sévigné
}01 44 59 58 58; www.carnavalet.paris.fr
Located in Mme. de Sévigné’s beautiful 16th-century hôtel particulier and the neighboring Hôtel Le Peletier de St-Fargea…
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Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
THE MARAIS
62 rue des Archives
}01 48 87 40 36; www.chassenature.org
The collection may be quirky, but it’s sure to elicit some sort of response—whether it’s fascination or disgust. The mus…
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Place des Vosges
THE MARAIS
Paris’s oldest and perhaps snootiest public square has served many generations of residents, from the knights who clashe…
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Panthéon
LATIN QUARTER AND ST-GERMAIN
pl. du Panthéon
}01 44 32 18 04; http://pantheon.monuments-nationaux.fr
If there’s one building that doesn’t know the meaning of antidisestablishmentarianism, it’s the Panthéon. Because the Ne…
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Le Jardin du Luxembourg
LATIN QUARTER AND ST-GERMAIN
Main entrance on bd St-Michel
As with most ornate things in Paris, these gardens used to be exclusively for royalty. When the great expropriation occu…
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Eiffel Tower
INVALIDES
Champs de Mars, closest to the Seine
}01 44 11 23 23; www.tour-eiffel.fr
In 1937, Gustave Eiffel said, “I ought to be jealous of that tower; she is more famous than I am.” The city of Paris as …
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Champs de Mars
INVALIDES
Lined with more lovers than trees, the expansive lawn that stretches from the École Militaire to the Eiffel Tower is cal…
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Musée Rodin
INVALIDES
79 rue de Varenne
}01 44 18 61 10; www.musee-rodin.fr
According to Parisians in the know, this is one of the city’s museums. During his lifetime, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) wa…
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Musée d’Orsay
INVALIDES
62 rue de Lille
}01 40 49 48 14; www.musee-orsay.com
Aesthetic taste is fickle. When a handful of artists were rejected from the Louvre salon in the 19th century, they opene…
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Arc de Triomphe
CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
pl. Charles de Gaulle-Étoile
; www.arc-de-triomphe.monuments-nationaux.fr
Probably the second most iconic image in the whole city, the Arc de Triomphe dominates the Champs-Élysées and remains st…
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Catacombs
MONTPARNASSE AND SOUTHERN PARIS
1 av. du Colonel Henri Roi-Tanguy
}01 43 22 47 63; www.catacombes-de-paris.fr
The Catacombs were the original site of Paris’s quarries, but were converted into an ossuary in 1785 to help alleviate t…
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Musée du Vin
WESTERN PARIS
rue des Eaux
}01 45 25 70 89; www.museeduvinparis.com
Formerly a 15th-century monastery, the Musée du Vin’s underground tunnels and vaults take visitors through the history o…
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Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
MONTMARTRE
35 rue du Chevalier-de-la-Barre
}01 53 41 89 00; www.sacre-coeur-montmartre.fr
Situated 129m above sea level, this splendid basilica was first planned in 1870. Its purpose? To serve as a spiritual bu…
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Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
EASTERN PARIS
Not your average Parisian park, the Buttes-Chaumont was modeled after Hyde Park in London, but it seems more like Pandor…

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