Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #13 in Paris, France

The Church of Saint-Lambert de Paris or Church of Saint-Lambert de Vaugirard is a church located on rue Gerbert in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Lambert de Vaugirard (FR), Website

The Church of the Three Holy Doctors and St. Tikhons of Zadonsk is a cathedral church of the Moscow Patriarchate located at 5 rue Petel, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. It is also called the church of the three holy hierarchs.

Wikipedia: Cathédrale des Trois-Saints-Docteurs de Paris (FR)

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Séraphin-de-Sarov (FR), Website

The Notre-Dame-du-Lys chapel is a chapel located at 7 rue Blomet in the 15th arrondissement of Paris and dependent on the parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Lys (FR)

The Square de l'Oiseau-Lunaire is a square in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, in the Necker district.

Wikipedia: Square de l'Oiseau lunaire (FR)

Square Necker is a green space in the 15th arrondissement of Paris located in the Necker district.

Wikipedia: Square Necker (FR)

The Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle is a Catholic church located in the Necker district of the 15th arrondissement of Paris, dedicated to Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, founder in the eighteenth century of the Brothers of the Christian Schools and patron saint of educators.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle (FR)

A Guimard metro entrance is an access to a station of the Paris metro designed at the very beginning of the twentieth century by the Art Nouveau architect Hector Guimard (1867-1942).

Wikipedia: Édicule Guimard (FR)

The Musée Valentin Haüy is a private museum dedicated to tools and education of the blind, and located in the building of the Valentin Haüy Association, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris at 5, rue Duroc, Paris, France. It is open Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons without charge.

Wikipedia: Musée Valentin Haüy (EN), Website

The Keith Haring Tower is the nickname given to the monumental fresco created by the painter Keith Haring in 1987, on the fire escape tower of the surgical clinic in the courtyard of the Necker-Enfants malades hospital in Paris, France.

Wikipedia: Tour Keith Haring (FR)

The Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital is a French teaching hospital in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. It is a hospital of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris group and is affiliated to the Université Paris Cité. Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital was created in 1920 by the merger of Necker Hospital, which was founded in 1778 by Suzanne Necker, with the physically contiguous Sick Children's Hospital, the oldest children's hospital in the Western world, founded in 1801.

Wikipedia: Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital (EN), Website

The Fruit, sculpted in 1906, is the work of Antoine Bourdelle. The statue is an anatomical study of a nude female who stands confidently, with fruit cupped in her right hand, her left arm bent behind and her ankles crossed.

Wikipedia: The Fruit (EN)

The Musée de La Poste is the La Poste Group's corporate museum dedicated to postal history and French philately. Opened in 1946, it has had two sites in Paris. The current museum has been located at 34, boulevard de Vaugirard since 1973. Its collections have the label Musée de France under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. The museum closed its doors in 2015 for a complete architectural and museum restructuring. It reopened on November 23, 2019.

Wikipedia: L'Adresse Musée de La Poste (FR), Website

Tour Maine-Montparnasse, also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre (689 ft) office skyscraper in the Montparnasse area of Paris, France. Constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the 231-metre (758 ft) Tour First in the La Défense business district west of Paris's city limits. It remains the tallest building in Paris proper and the third tallest in France, behind Tour First and Tour Hekla. As of July 2023, it is the 53rd-tallest building in Europe.

Wikipedia: Tour Montparnasse (EN), Url

The Musée Hébert is a museum located in the Hôtel de Montmorency-Bours at 85, rue du Cherche-Midi, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It has been closed since 2004 for renovations.

Wikipedia: Musée Hébert (EN), Website

The fountain of the rue du Cherche-Midi, also called the fountain of Neptune, is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, at n°86 of the rue du Cherche-Midi, formerly the courtyard of the Vieilles-Thuilleries.

Wikipedia: Fontaine de la rue Cherche-Midi (FR)

The Hôtel Lutetia, located at 45 Boulevard Raspail, in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, is one of the best-known hotels on the Left Bank. It is noted for its architecture and its historical role during the German occupation of France in World War II.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Lutetia (EN), Website

The Lutetia swimming pool is a former swimming pool in Paris located at 17 rue de Sèvres in the 6th arrondissement.

Wikipedia: Piscine Lutetia (FR)

The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a theatre located at 21, rue du Vieux-Colombier, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 1913 by the theatre producer and playwright Jacques Copeau. Today it is one of the three theatres in Paris used by the Comédie-Française.

Wikipedia: Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier (EN)

The Hotel de Beaune is a private mansion located in Paris, France.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Beaune (FR)

Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes (Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes) is a Catholic church located at 70 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally built as the chapel of a convent of the mendicant order of Shoeless Carmelites. It is now the church of the Catholic Institute of Paris, a university-level seminary for training priests, and is also a parish church for the neighbourhood. It is dedicated to Saint Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary. Built between 1613 and 1620, it combines elements of Classical architecture on the exterior with a remarkable display of Baroque architecture and art in the interior. The chapel is open to the public at limited hours.

Wikipedia: Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes (EN)

The Fountain of Peace or Fountain of Peace and Arts, formerly called the Fountain of the Marché-Saint-Germain, is a fountain in Paris commissioned by Napoleon I in 1807, which has been listed as a historical monument since February 6, 1926.

Wikipedia: Fontaine de la Paix (FR)

The Fontaine Saint-Sulpice is a monumental fountain located in Place Saint-Sulpice in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was constructed between 1843 and 1848 by the architect Louis Visconti, who also designed the tomb of Napoleon.

Wikipedia: Fontaine Saint-Sulpice (EN)

The Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice is an astronomical measurement device located in the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, France. It is a gnomon, a device designed to cast a shadow on the ground in order to determine the position of the sun in the sky. In early modern times, other gnomons were also built in several Italian and French churches in order to better calculate astronomical events. Those churches are Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, San Petronio in Bologna, and the Church of the Certosa in Rome. These gnomons ultimately fell into disuse with the advent of powerful telescopes.

Wikipedia: Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice (EN)

The Church of Saint-Sulpice is a Catholic church in Paris, France, on the east side of Place Saint-Sulpice, in the Latin Quarter of the 6th arrondissement. Only slightly smaller than Notre-Dame and Saint-Eustache, it is the third largest church in the city. It is dedicated to Sulpitius the Pious. Construction of the present building, the second on the site, began in 1646. During the 18th century, an elaborate gnomon, the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice, was constructed in the church. Saint-Sulpice is also known for its Great Organ, one of the most significant organs in the world.

Wikipedia: Saint-Sulpice, Paris (EN), Website

Jacob's Struggle with the Angel is a mural painting made by Eugène Delacroix in the 1850s and completed in 1861, for the Chapel of the Holy Angels in the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris.

Wikipedia: La Lutte de Jacob avec l'Ange (Delacroix) (FR)

The Musée du Luxembourg is a museum at 19 rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace and in 1818 became the first museum of contemporary art. In 1884 the museum moved into its current building, the former orangery of the Palace. The museum was taken over by the French Ministry of Culture and the French Senate in 2000, when it began to be used for temporary exhibitions, and became part of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in 2010.

Wikipedia: Musée du Luxembourg (EN), Website

The Jardin du Luxembourg, known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat, is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. The creation of the garden began in 1612 when Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV, constructed the Luxembourg Palace as her new residence. The garden today is owned by the French Senate, which meets in the palace. It covers 23 hectares and is known for its lawns, tree-lined promenades, tennis courts, flowerbeds, model sailboats on its octagonal Grand Bassin, as well as picturesque Medici Fountain, built in 1620. The name Luxembourg comes from the Latin Mons Lucotitius, the name of the hill where the garden is located, and locally the garden is informally called "le Luco".

Wikipedia: Jardin du Luxembourg (EN), Website, Opening Hours, Opening_hours

The Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe is one of France's six national theatres. It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg Garden and the Luxembourg Palace, which houses the Senate.

Wikipedia: Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (EN), Website

The Place de l'Odéon is a semicircular square in the Odéon quarter in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Wikipedia: Place de l'Odéon (EN)

The Thermes de Cluny are the ruins of Gallo-Roman thermal baths lying in the heart of Paris' 5th arrondissement, and which are partly subsumed into the Musée national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de Cluny.

Wikipedia: Thermes de Cluny (EN)

The Musée de Cluny, officially Musée de Cluny-Musée National du Moyen Âge, is a museum of medieval art in Paris. It is located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, bordered by square Samuel-Paty to the south, boulevard Saint-Michel to the west, boulevard Saint-Germain to the north, and rue Saint-Jacques to the east.

Wikipedia: Musée de Cluny (EN), Website

The Samuel Paty Square is a green space located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris next to the Sorbonne and the Musée de Cluny.

Wikipedia: Square Samuel-Paty (EN)

Le Champo, in full Le Champo – Espace Jacques-Tati, is an arthouse cinema in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It is notable for being a favorite haunt of important figures in French cinema history.

Wikipedia: Le Champo (EN), Website

The University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne is a multidisciplinary French institution of higher education, specializing in the fields of economics and management, arts and humanities, law and political science.

Wikipedia: Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (FR), Website

The Collège de France, formerly known as the Collège Royal or as the Collège impérial founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The Collège de France has been considered to be France's most prestigious research establishment. It is an associate member of PSL University.

Wikipedia: Collège de France (EN)

The church of Saint-Séverin is located on rue des Prêtres-Saint-Séverin in the Latin Quarter, near the Seine.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Séverin (FR)

The Church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre is a medieval church located on the left bank of the Seine in Paris in the Latin Quarter, rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre in the Square René-Viviani. Since the end of the nineteenth century, it has been the Greek-Melkite-Catholic church of Paris, in the Byzantine rite.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre (Paris) (FR)

Square René-Viviani is a green space located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, near the Seine River.

Wikipedia: Square René-Viviani - Montebello (FR)

Square Restif-de-la-Bretonne is a very small green space located at no. 2, rue de la Bûcherie, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.

Wikipedia: Square Restif-de-la-Bretonne (FR)

The Square Danielle-Mitterrand, formerly the garden of the rue de Bièvre, is a green space in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Wikipedia: Square Danielle-Mitterrand (FR)

Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet is a Catholic church in the centre of Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement. It was constructed between 1656 and 1763. The facade was designed in the classical style by Charles Le Brun. It contains many notable art works from the 19th century, including a rare religious painting by Jean-Baptiste Corot.

Wikipedia: Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet (EN), Website

The Pontoise swimming pool is a swimming pool located on rue de Pontoise in the 5th arrondissement of Paris (France).

Wikipedia: Piscine Pontoise (FR)

The Musée de l'Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris is the museum of the institution of the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, CHU de Paris. Since its inauguration on April 28, 1934, it was housed in the Hôtel de Miramion, located at 47, quai de la Tournelle, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, until the closure of the site in June 2012. He was then relocated to the Bicêtre hospital in Kremlin-Bicêtre, in the Val-de-Marne. The first hospital museum in France, it reconstructs the history of the hospital in its various components: social and religious history, history of medicine and the health professions, history of representations of the body and illness. He deciphers this history, questions it, and confronts past and present in the search for the meaning of recent developments.

Wikipedia: Musée de l'AP-HP (FR), Website

Two private mansions, belonging to two brothers, bear the name of Hôtel de Nesmond in France: Hôtel de Nesmond (Paris), Hôtel de Nesmond (Bordeaux).

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Nesmond (FR)

The Square de l'Île-de-France is a square in Paris, located in the 4th arrondissement at the eastern tip of the Île de la Cité, just behind the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Square de l'Île-de-France (FR)