Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #18 in Paris, France
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14.6 km
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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: Jardin Anne Frank
The Anne-Frank Garden is a green space in the Sainte-Avoye district of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, at 14, impasse Berthaud.
Sight 2: Musée de la Poupée
The Musée de la Poupée was a private doll museum located in the 3rd arrondissement at Impasse Berthaud, near 22 rue Beaubourg, Paris, France.
Sight 3: Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini.
Sight 4: Hôtel de Saint-Aignan
The Museum of Art and History of Judaism (mahJ) is located in the former family mansion of Avaux, then of Saint-Aignan in the Marais district.
Wikipedia: Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme (FR), Website
Sight 5: façade de l'Hôtel de Montmorency
The title Hôtel de Montmorency refers to several Parisian mansions that belonged to the House of Montmorency.
Sight 6: Fontaine des Haudriettes
The Haudriettes fountain is located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 7: Archives Nationales
The National Archives hold the archives of the central organs of the French State, with the exception of the collections of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the Ministry of the Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They were created by decree of the Constituent Assembly in 1790. This national service has been under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs since the creation of the latter in 1959. The headquarters of the Archives are located in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine but some collections are kept in Paris. These two sites preserve a total of 373 linear km of archives documenting the history of France from the seventh century to the present day.
Sight 8: Cathédrale Sainte-Croix de Paris des Arméniens
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross of Paris of the Armenians, formerly the Church of Saint-Jean-Saint-François, is an Armenian Catholic cathedral located at 13-15 rue du Perche, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris in the Marais district.
Wikipedia: Cathédrale Sainte-Croix de Paris des Arméniens (FR)
Sight 9: Musée de la chasse et de la nature
The Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, "Musée de France" since 2003, is a private museum bringing together the collections of the François-Sommer Foundation for Hunting and Nature. It is located in Paris, in the Hôtel de Guénégaud and the Hôtel de Mongelas in the Marais district.
Sight 10: Chapelle Saint-Julien-des-Enfants-Rouges
The former Hospice des Enfants-Rouges or Hôpital des Enfants-Rouges was, when it was founded in the second third of the sixteenth century, the first establishment specially and exclusively intended for the reception of foundlings in Paris. It became a barracks in 1808. It gave its name to the administrative district known as the Enfants-Rouges in the 3rd arrondissement, where it was located at the current intersection of the rue Portefoin with the rue des Archives.
Sight 11: Square du Temple- Elie Wiesel
The Square du Temple is a garden in Paris, France in the 3rd arrondissement, established in 1857. It is one of 24 city squares planned and created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The Square occupies the site of a medieval fortress in Paris, built by the Knights Templar. Parts of the fortress were later used as a prison during the French Revolution, and then demolished by the mid-19th century.
Sight 12: Clown-Bar
The Clown Bar is a bistro at 114 Rue Amelot in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It has been classed as a monument historique since 1995.
Sight 13: Cirque d'Hiver
The Cirque d'Hiver de Paris, often referred to simply as the Cirque d'Hiver, is a performance hall located at 110 rue Amelot in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. Built in 1852 by the architect Jacques Hittorff, it was successively called "Cirque Napoléon" and then "Cirque National". It has been listed as a historical monument since February 10, 1975.
Sight 14: Le Bataclan
The Bataclan is a theatre located at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France. Designed in 1864 by the architect Charles Duval, its name refers to Ba-ta-clan, an operetta by Jacques Offenbach. Since the early 1970s, it has been a venue for rock music. On 13 November 2015, 90 people were killed in a coordinated terrorist attack in the theatre.
Sight 15: Square Jules Ferry
Square Jules-Ferry is a green space in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 16: Ancienne faïencerie Loebnitz
The Loebnitz earthenware factory is a former earthenware factory built in 1884 by the architect Paul Sédille.
Sight 17: Jardinet Pihet-Beslay
The Pihet-Beslay garden is a green space in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 18: Ménagerie de Verre
The Glass Menagerie is a French theater located on rue Léchevin, in a rebuilt printing house in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 19: Square Maurice Gardette
The Square Maurice-Gardette is a green space in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 20: Rue Saint-Maur
Rue Saint-Maur is a station on Paris Métro Line 3, located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 21: Édicule Guimard
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).
Sight 22: Square Georges Sarre
Square Georges-Sarre is a green space in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 23: Musée Edith Piaf
The Musée Édith Piaf is a private museum dedicated to singer Édith Piaf located in the 11th arrondissement at 5, rue Crespin du Gast, Paris, France. It is open by appointment; admission is free.
Sight 24: Jardin Gabriële Buffet
The Gabriële-Buffet Garden, formerly the "garden of the rue Pali-Kao", is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 25: Parc de Belleville
The Parc de Belleville, one of the parks and gardens of the 20th arrondissement of Paris, is situated between the Parc des Buttes Chaumont and the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Sight 26: Jardin des Couronnes
The Jardin des Couronnes is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, in the Belleville district.
Sight 27: Regard de la Roquette
The Roquette manhole is a manhole, i.e. a structure allowing access to a pipe, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 28: Regard Saint-Martin
The Regards Saint-Martin is a manhole, i.e. a structure allowing access to a pipe, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 29: Regard des Petites Rigoles
The Petites-Rigoles manhole is a manhole, a structure allowing access to a pipe, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 30: Jardin des Petites Rigoles
The Jardin des Petites-Rigoles is a green space located at 42, rue des Cascades, or at 43-47, rue de l'Ermitage but accessible only at 1, rue Fernand-Raynaud in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, in the Belleville district.
Sight 31: Jardin Emmi Pikler
The Emmi-Pikler Garden, formerly the Olivier-Metra Garden, is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, in the Belleville district.
Sight 32: Jardin Pixérécourt
The Pixérécourt Garden is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 33: Jardin Léon Zyguel
The Léon-Zyguel Garden is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 34: Belleville
Montmartre and Belleville are disputing the highest levelling point in Paris. A distinction must be made between the two locations: "public domain, municipal road" and "private domain".
Sight 35: Jardin Pierre-Seghers
The Pierre-Seghers Garden is a public garden in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 36: Pavillon Carré de Baudouin
The Pavillon Carré de Baudouin is an eighteenth-century building located on rue de Ménilmontant in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, which was converted into a cultural space open to the public in June 2007. The place is managed by the city of Paris and the town hall of the 20th arrondissement of Paris and admission is free.
Sight 37: Jardin Jean-Michel Rosenfeld
The Carré-de-Baudouin garden is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 38: Théâtre de Ménilmontant
The Théâtre de Ménilmontant (TdM) is a Parisian theater located on rue du Retrait in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, in the Ménilmontant district.
Sight 39: La Maroquinerie
La Maroquinerie is a concert hall and restaurant, located at 23 rue Boyer in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 40: Regard des Messiers
The Messiers' Gaze is a manhole, that is to say, a structure allowing access to the Belleville water network, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 41: Square Sergent Aurélie Salel
The Square du Sergent-Aurélie-Salel is a square in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 42: Square Élisa Borey
Square Élisa-Borey is a square in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 43: Jardin Toussaint Louverture
The Toussaint-Louverture garden is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 44: Square Samuel de Champlain
The Samuel-de-Champlain Garden is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 45: Square du Docteur Jacques-Joseph Grancher
The Square du Docteur-Grancher is a green space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 46: Tombeau d'Ivan Yakovleff
The tomb of Ivan Yakovleff is a remarkable sepulchral chapel of the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris; The burial was raised in 1885 by Prince Alexis Soltykoff in memory of his grandfather, Ivan Yakovleff (1804-1882).
Sight 47: Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at 44 hectares or 110 acres. With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Notable figures in the arts buried at Père Lachaise include: Colette, Michel Ney, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Frédéric Chopin, George Enescu, Édith Piaf, Alice Harriet Blosse Lynch, Marcel Proust, Georges Méliès, Marcel Marceau, Olivia de Havilland, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Madho Rao Scindia, J. R. D. Tata, Georges Bizet, Jim Morrison, Michel Petrucciani, and Sir Richard Wallace.
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