Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #19 in Paris, France
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13.2 km
181 m
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: École Massillon
The école Massillon is a private educational establishment under contract with the state with 1380 students. The establishment is under the control of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. It is located in the hôtel Fieubet and the Gratry Building, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 2: Hôtel Lafont
The Hotel Lafont is a private mansion located on the Place des Vosges in Paris, France.
Sight 3: Synagogue Charles Liché
The Charles-Liché synagogue is located at 14, place des Vosges, in Paris, in the Hôtel de Ribault, on the 1st floor.
Sight 4: Synagogue de la rue des Tournelles
The Synagogue des Tournelles is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on the Rue des Tournelles, in the Marais district, in the IVe arrondissement of Paris, France. The building was dedicated on 15 September 1876, during Jewish New Year celebrations.
Sight 5: Temple protestant du Foyer de l'Âme
The Protestant temple of the Foyer de l'Âme, located at 7 bis rue du Pasteur-Wagner in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, is home to a parish of liberal Protestant tendencies – that is to say, a Christianity from the Enlightenment, with a historical-critical reading of the Bible. The parish is a member of the United Protestant Church of France.
Wikipedia: Temple protestant du Foyer de l'Âme (FR), Website
Sight 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: Fontaine Trogneux
The Fontaine de Charonne, formerly known as Fontaine Trogneux, is a historic fountain in Paris, France.
Sight 10: Cour de l'Etoile d'Or
The Cour de l'Étoile-d'Or is a private road in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 11: Histoire De Paris Rue De Lappe
Rue de Lappe is a Parisian route located in the 11th arrondissement adjacent to rue de la Roquette in the Roquette district.
Sight 12: Église Notre-Dame d'Espérance
The Church of Notre-Dame-d'Espérance is a modern Catholic church inaugurated in 1997, located at 47 rue de la Roquette at the corner of rue du Commandant-Lamy, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 13: 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.
Sight 14: Synagogue Don Isaac Abravanel
The Synagogue Don Isaac Abravanel, also known as the Synagogue de la Roquette, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the XIe arrondissement of Paris, France. Designed by architects Alexandre Persitz and Arthur-Georges Héaume in the Modernist style, the synagogue was built in 1962 for Jews who emigrated to France from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia as a result of decolonization. The congregation worships in the Sephardi rite.
Sight 15: Square Francis Lemarque
The Square Francis-Lemarque is a square in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, in the Roquette district.
Sight 16: Église Sainte-Marguerite
The Church of Sainte-Marguerite is a Roman Catholic church dating from the seventeenth century, located at 36, rue Saint-Bernard in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 17: Square Raoul Nordling
Square Raoul-Nordling is a green space in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. It is located south of the Sainte-Marguerite church.
Sight 18: Jardin de la Folie Titon
The Jardin de la Folie-Titon is a green space in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, in the Sainte-Marguerite district.
Sight 19: Palais de la Femme
The Palais de la Femme is a building located at 94, rue de Charonne, at the corner of rue Faidherbe, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France. Since 1926, it has been a Salvation Army establishment for young girls and single women, and which today also welcomes men. The building is composed of 630 rooms.
Sight 20: Square Edmée Chandon
Sight 21: Jardin Pierre-Joseph Redouté
The Pierre-Joseph-Redouté Garden is a green space in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 22: Club Colbert
The Pension Belhomme was a prison and private clinic during the French Revolution in the Rue de Charonne.
Sight 23: Jardin Émile Gallé
The Émile-Gallé Garden is a public garden in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, in the Roquette and Sainte-Marguerite districts.
Sight 24: Alexandre-Dumas
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 25: Boulevard de Charonne
Philippe Auguste is a station on Line 2 of the Paris Métro, on the border of the 11th and 20th arrondissements.
Sight 26: Jardin de la Folie-Regnault
The Square de la Folie-Régnault is a square in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, in the Roquette district.
Sight 27: Square de la Roquette
The Square de la Roquette is a square in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 28: Square Marcel Rajman
Square Marcel-Rajman is a street located in the Roquette district of the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Sight 29: Monument de l'Assistance publique
The Public Assistance Monument is a war memorial erected by the City of Paris and located in the Père-Lachaise cemetery. He paid tribute to the staff of the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris who were victims of duty.
Sight 30: Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion, also known as Champollion le jeune, was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology. Partially raised by his brother, the scholar Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Champollion was a child prodigy in philology, giving his first public paper on the decipherment of Demotic in his late teens. As a young man he was renowned in scientific circles, and read Coptic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic.
Sight 31: 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.
Sight 32: Vol 604 Flash Airlines
On January 3, 2004, the Boeing 737-300 operating Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashed into the Red Sea off the coast of the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, shortly after takeoff, leaving no survivors among the 135 passengers and 13 crew members.
Sight 33: Vol 708 West Caribbean
West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 was a charter flight chartered by the Martinique travel agency Globe Trotters of Rivière-Salée, operated by a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 of the Colombian airline West Caribbean Airways. After taking off from Tocumen International Airport (PTY) in Panama City on August 15, 2005, it was en route to Fort-de-France when it crashed in a field near Machiques, western Venezuela, in the early hours of Tuesday, August 16, 2005.
Sight 34: Square Henri-Karcher
The Square Henri-Karcher is a square in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 35: Jardin naturel Pierre Emmanuel
The Pierre-Emmanuel Natural Garden is a public garden in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 36: Cimetière de Charonne
The Charonne Cemetery is a cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. It is the second smallest Parisian cemetery after the Calvaire cemetery.
Sight 37: Église Saint-Germain-de-Charonne
The Saint-Germain de Charonne church is a religious building and operational parish church located at 4, place Saint-Blaise in the Père-Lachaise district on the edge of the Charonne district in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 38: Square de la Salamandre
The Square de la Salamandre is a square in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 39: Square des Grès
The Square des Grès is a green space accessible by the Place des Grès in the Charonne district of the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 40: Pavillon de l'Ermitage
The Château de Bagnolet was a château situated in the Paris suburb of Bagnolet, France, 5.2 km from the center of the capital. The property was part of the biens de la Maison d'Orléans, private property of the House of Orléans from 1719 till 1769. It was demolished in the 19th century.
Sight 41: Twisted Lamppost Star
Twisted Lamppost Star is a work by American artist Mark Handforth. It is a monumental sculpture representing a twisted pink street lamp. It was installed on the T3b tram route in Paris, France, in 2012.
Sight 42: Square Séverine
Square Séverine is a square in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
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