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Paris: City of Light on the Seine
Attractions
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Eiffel Tower
Gustave Eiffel's 330-metre wrought-iron lattice tower, built for the 1889 World's Fair and meant to stand for just twenty years, is now the enduring symbol of Paris.
Louvre Museum
The world's most-visited museum, housed in a former royal palace on the Seine, holds around 35,000 works on display, from the Mona Lisa to the Venus de Milo.
Notre-Dame Cathedral
The 12th-century Gothic cathedral on Île de la Cité, gutted by fire in 2019 and meticulously restored, reopened to the public in December 2024 more luminous than in living memory.
Food & Dining
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Ladurée
A pâtisserie founded in 1862 whose staff is credited with inventing the modern double-decker macaron in the 1930s, its opulent Champs-Élysées salon serving them alongside tea and light meals.
Angelina
A Belle Époque tea room on rue de Rivoli, opened in 1903, famous across Paris for its thick "Chocolat Africain" hot chocolate and chestnut-cream Mont-Blanc pastry.
Poilâne
The Left Bank bakery founded in 1932 by Pierre Poilâne, still wood-fired and hand-shaped, whose sourdough "miche" loaf, stamped with a P, is exported and imitated worldwide.
Shop
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Galeries Lafayette Haussmann
The 1912 Haussmann flagship department store, its neo-Byzantine glass-and-steel dome one of Paris's most spectacular hidden interiors, crowning a shopping destination that draws millions of visitors a year.
Shakespeare and Company
An English-language bookshop facing Notre-Dame, opened in 1951 by George Whitman as spiritual heir to Sylvia Beach's original 1919 shop, which first published James Joyce's Ulysses.
Le Bon Marché
Founded in 1852 by Aristide Boucicaut, widely credited as the world's first modern department store, its Gustave Eiffel-engineered atrium still anchors the Left Bank's most elegant shopping address.
Top Highlights
Eiffel Tower
Gustave Eiffel's 330-metre wrought-iron lattice tower, built for the 1889 World's Fair and meant to stand for just twenty years, is now the enduring symbol of Paris.
Louvre Museum
The world's most-visited museum, housed in a former royal palace on the Seine, holds around 35,000 works on display, from the Mona Lisa to the Venus de Milo.
Notre-Dame Cathedral
The 12th-century Gothic cathedral on Île de la Cité, gutted by fire in 2019 and meticulously restored, reopened to the public in December 2024 more luminous than in living memory.
Ladurée
A pâtisserie founded in 1862 whose staff is credited with inventing the modern double-decker macaron in the 1930s, its opulent Champs-Élysées salon serving them alongside tea and light meals.
Angelina
A Belle Époque tea room on rue de Rivoli, opened in 1903, famous across Paris for its thick "Chocolat Africain" hot chocolate and chestnut-cream Mont-Blanc pastry.
Poilâne
The Left Bank bakery founded in 1932 by Pierre Poilâne, still wood-fired and hand-shaped, whose sourdough "miche" loaf, stamped with a P, is exported and imitated worldwide.
Galeries Lafayette Haussmann
The 1912 Haussmann flagship department store, its neo-Byzantine glass-and-steel dome one of Paris's most spectacular hidden interiors, crowning a shopping destination that draws millions of visitors a year.
Shakespeare and Company
An English-language bookshop facing Notre-Dame, opened in 1951 by George Whitman as spiritual heir to Sylvia Beach's original 1919 shop, which first published James Joyce's Ulysses.
Le Bon Marché
Founded in 1852 by Aristide Boucicaut, widely credited as the world's first modern department store, its Gustave Eiffel-engineered atrium still anchors the Left Bank's most elegant shopping address.