Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #16 in Paris, France
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Experience Paris in France in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in ParisIndividual Sights in ParisSight 1: Musée Zadkine
The Musée Zadkine is a museum dedicated to the work of Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967). It is located near the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement at 100 bis, rue d'Assas, Paris, France, and open daily except Monday; an admission fee is only charged during exhibitions. The museum also contains a fine garden, with no charge for entry. The nearest métro and RER stations are Port-Royal and Vavin.
Sight 2: Jardin du Luxembourg
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
Sight 3: Musée du Luxembourg
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.
Sight 4: Place de l'Odéon
The Place de l'Odéon is a semicircular square in the Odéon quarter in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 5: Fontaine Médicis
The Medici Fountain is a monumental fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement in Paris. Built in about 1630, it was commissioned by Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV of France and regent of King Louis XIII of France. It was moved to its present location and extensively rebuilt in 1864-1866.
Sight 6: Pantheon
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The Panthéon is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, atop the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the centre of the Place du Panthéon, which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, at the behest of King Louis XV of France; the king intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris's patron saint, whose relics were to be housed in the church. Neither Soufflot nor Louis XV lived to see the church completed.
Sight 7: Pendule de Foucault
The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area is monitored over an extended period of time, its plane of oscillation appears to change spontaneously as the Earth makes its 24-hourly rotation.
Sight 8: Chapelle Sainte-Ursule
The Chapel of Sainte Ursule de la Sorbonne, also known as the Sorbonne Chapel, is a Roman Catholic chapel located on the Sorbonne historical site, in the Latin quarter of Paris, France. It was rebuilt in the 17th century by order of Cardinal Richelieu.
Sight 9: Le Champo
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.
Sight 10: Collège de France - PSL
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.
Sight 11: Musée de Cluny
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.
Sight 12: Robinier du square René Viviani
Sight 13: Piscine Pontoise
The Pontoise swimming pool is a swimming pool located on rue de Pontoise in the 5th arrondissement of Paris (France).
Sight 14: Musée de l'Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris
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.
Sight 15: Hôtel de Nesmond
Two private mansions, belonging to two brothers, bear the name of Hôtel de Nesmond in France: Hôtel de Nesmond (Paris), Hôtel de Nesmond (Bordeaux).
Sight 16: Cathedral of Notre Dame
Notre-Dame de Paris, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral, dedicated in honour of the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. Several attributes set it apart from the earlier Romanesque style, particularly its pioneering use of the rib vault and flying buttress, its enormous and colourful rose windows, and the naturalism and abundance of its sculptural decoration. Notre-Dame is also exceptional for its three pipe organs and its immense church bells.
Sight 17: Square Federico-García-Lorca
The Federico García Lorca Garden is a public park situated on the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the French capital.
Sight 18: Hôtel de Chalon-Luxembourg
The Hôtel de Chalon-Luxembourg is a private mansion located at 26, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, built from 1625 in the Parisian district of the Marais. It is the property of the City of Paris and was classified as a historical monument in 1977.
Sight 19: Hôtel d'Ourscamp
The Hôtel d'Ourscamp, also known as the Maison de Marsande, or Maison de l'Ours, is a historic building located at Nos. 44 and 46, rue François-Miron in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 20: Association Paris Historique
Paris historique is an association under the law of 1901 born in the Marais, a Parisian district located in the 3rd and 4th arrondissements. It has been recognized as a public utility since November 10, 2015.
Sight 21: Cour administrative d'appel
The Hôtel de Beauvais is a hôtel particulier, a kind of large townhouse of France, at 68 rue Francois-Miron, 4th arrondissement, Paris. Until 1865 rue Francois-Miron formed part of the historic rue Saint Antoine and as such was part of the ceremonial route into Paris from the east. The hotel was built by the royal architect Antoine Le Pautre for Catherine Beauvais in 1657. It is an example of eclectic French Baroque architecture.
Sight 22: Maison Européenne de la Photographie
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie, located in the historic heart of Paris, is a center for contemporary photographic art opened in February 1996.
Wikipedia: Maison européenne de la photographie (EN), Website
Sight 23: Hôtel de Sens
The Hôtel de Sens or Hôtel des archevêques de Sens is a 16th-century hôtel particulier, or private mansion, in the Marais, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. It nowadays houses the Forney art library.
Sight 24: Jardin Albert-Schweitzer
The Square Albert-Schweitzer is a green space in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the Saint-Gervais district.
Sight 25: Hôtel Meiland
The Méliand hotel is a former mansion located on Île Saint-Louis in Paris, in France.
Sight 26: Hôtel de Lauzun
The Hôtel de Lauzun is a 17th-century hôtel particulier, or private mansion, located on the Quai d'Anjou of the île Saint-Louis in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is among the few Parisian hôtels that retain their rich carved, painted, mirrored and gilded interiors from the time of Louis XIV.
Sight 27: Pavillon de l'Arsenal
The Pavillon de l'Arsenal is the Paris Center for architecture and urbanism, a center for urban planning and museum located in the 4th arrondissement at 21, boulevard Morland, Paris, France. It is open daily except Mondays; admission is free.
Sight 28: Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal
The Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris has been part of the Bibliothèque nationale de France since 1934.
Sight 29: Musée de la Magie
The Musée de la Magie, also known as the Musée de la Curiosité et de la Magie and the Académie de la Magie, is a private museum located in the 4th arrondissement at 11, rue saint Paul, Paris, France. It is open several afternoons per week; an admission fee is charged.
Sight 30: Hôtel de Chavigny
The Hôtel de Bouthillier de Chavigny, or Hôtel de Chavigny, is located at 9, rue de Sévigné in the 4th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 31: Hôtel d'Espinoy et Pavillon de la Reine
The Hôtel d'Espinoy is a private mansion located on the Place des Vosges in Paris, France.
Sight 32: Hôtel Lafont
The Hotel Lafont is a private mansion located on the Place des Vosges in Paris, France.
Sight 33: Maison de Victor Hugo
Maison de Victor Hugo is a writer's house museum located where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years between 1832 and 1848. It is one of the 14 City of Paris' Museums that have been incorporated since January 1, 2013 in the public institution Paris Musées.
Sight 34: Hôtel Genou de Guiberville
The Hotel Genou de Guiberville is a private mansion located on the Place des Vosges in Paris, France.
Sight 35: Pavillon du Roi
The Pavillon du Roi or the Hôtel du Pavillon du Roi is a private mansion located on the Place des Vosges in Paris, France.
Sight 36: July Column
The July Column is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates the Trois Glorieuses — the 'three glorious' days of 27–29 July 1830 that saw the fall of Charles X, King of France, and the commencement of the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe, King of the French. It was built between 1835 and 1840.
Sight 37: Le Génie de la Liberté
The Genius of Liberty, also known as The Genius of the Bastille, is a gilded bronze statue made by Auguste Dumont in 1836. It surmounts the July Column on Place de la Bastille in Paris, France.
Sight 38: Opéra Bastille
The Opéra Bastille is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. Inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's Grands Travaux, it became the main facility of the Paris National Opera, France's principal opera company, alongside the older Palais Garnier; most opera performances are shown at the Bastille along with some ballet performances and symphony concerts, while Palais Garnier presents a mix of opera and ballet performances.
Sight 39: Comédie Bastille
Comédie Bastille is a Parisian theater located at 5 rue Nicolas-Appert, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 40: Fontaine de la Roquette
La Fontaine de la Roquette, sometimes called Molinos Fountain, is a Parisian fountain at the No. 70 on rue de la Roquette in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It is a historic monument classified in 1992.
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