Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Paris, France
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10.5 km
210 m
Experience Paris in France in a whole new way with our 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.
Individual Sights in ParisSight 1: Musée de la Contrefaçon
The Musée de la Contrefaçon is a museum of counterfeiting. It is located at 16, rue de la Faisanderie, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, and open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged. The nearest métro and RER stations are Porte Dauphine and Avenue Foch.
Sight 2: Immeuble dit Fondation Thiers
The Thiers Foundation is a French institution designed to assist the early careers of young researchers considered to be promising.
Sight 3: Musée Arménien de France
The Musée Arménien de France is a private museum of Armenian art and archaeology located in the 16th arrondissement of Paris at Fondation Nourhan Fringhian, 59 avenue Foch, Paris, France.
Sight 4: Alphand
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (26 October 1817 – 6 December 1891) was a French civil engineer and administrator.
Sight 5: Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues. The location of the arc and the plaza is shared between three arrondissements, 16th, 17th (north), and 8th (east). The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
Sight 6: Salle Wagram
The Salle Wagram is a historic auditorium in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was built in 1865. It has been listed as an official historical monument by the French Ministry of Culture since March 2, 1981.
Sight 7: Salle Pleyel
The Salle Pleyel is a concert hall in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, designed by the acoustician Gustave Lyon together with the architect Jacques Marcel Auburtin, who died in 1926, and the work was completed in 1927 by his collaborators André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon. Its varied programme includes contemporary and popular music. Until 2015, the hall was a major venue for classical orchestral music, with Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as resident ensembles.
Sight 8: Cathédrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church located at 12 Rue Daru in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The closest métro station is Courcelles .
Sight 9: Métropolitain, station Monceau
Monceau is a station on Paris Métro Line 2 near the Parc Monceau on the border of the 8th and 17th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 10: Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner
The Jean-Jacques-Henner National Museum is a museum dedicated to the work of the French painter Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905). It opened to the public in 1924, thanks to the donation made to the State the previous year by Marie Henner, widow of the artist's nephew. Part of the French National Museums, it is located in a former nineteenth-century mansion in the Plaine-de-Monceaux district of the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
Sight 11: Fers
Irons is a work by the French artist Driss Sans-Arcidet. Created in 2009, it is a sculpture in homage to General Dumas, located in Paris, France.
Sight 12: Général Dumas
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, known as General Dumas, is a general of the French Revolution, born March 25, 1762 in Jérémie and died on February 26, 1806 in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne).
Sight 13: Musée Cernuschi
The Musée Cernuschi, officially also the Musée des arts de l'Asie de la Ville de Paris, is an Asian art museum located at 7 avenue Vélasquez, near Parc Monceau, in Paris, France. Its Asian art collection is second in Paris only to that of the Musée Guimet.
Sight 14: Musée Nissim de Camondo
The Musée Nissim de Camondo is a historic house museum of French decorative arts located in the Hôtel Moïse de Camondo at 63, rue de Monceau, on the edge of Parc Monceau in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. The nearest Paris Métro stops are Villiers and Monceau on Line 2.
Sight 15: Square Hector Berlioz
Square Hector-Berlioz is a green space in the 9th arrondissement of Paris in the Saint-Georges district.
Sight 16: Chapelle Sainte-Rita
The Sainte-Rita Chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel located at 65 Boulevard de Clichy in the 9th arrondissement of Paris opposite the Moulin Rouge. Dedicated to Saint Rita of Cascia, the patron saint of lost causes, the chapel was inaugurated in 1956 to serve the prostitutes of the Pigalle, then a busy red-light district. It is affiliated with the nearby Église de la Sainte-Trinité.
Sight 17: Moulin Rouge
The Moulin Rouge is a Parisian cabaret founded in 1889 by the Catalan Josep Oller and Charles Zidler, who already owned the Olympia. It is located on the Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, in the Pigalle district at the foot of the Montmartre hill.
Sight 18: Comédie de Paris
The Comédie de Paris is a Parisian theater located at 42, rue Pierre-Fontaine, at the foot of the Butte Montmartre.
Sight 19: Les Trois Baudets
Les Trois Baudets is a cultural establishment in the city of Paris, France, located at 64, boulevard de Clichy, at the foot of the Montmartre hill in the Pigalle district. The bar-restaurant can seat 50 people, and the concert hall can accommodate up to 200 people.
Sight 20: Maison Eymonaud
The Eymonaud house is located at no. 7 impasse Marie-Blanche, which opens onto rue Constance, in Paris, in the 18th arrondissement.
Sight 21: jardin Louise-Weber-dite-La-Goulue
The Louise Weber Garden, known as La Goulue, formerly known as the "Burq Garden" or "Square de la Rue Burq", is a green space located on the Montmartre hill, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (France).
Sight 22: Le Moulin de la Galette
The "Histoire de Paris" plaques are information plaques scattered throughout the City of Paris in front of various Parisian monuments.
Sight 23: Moulin de la Galette
The Moulin de la Galette is a generic expression: it refers to two mills, including, currently, the only working windmill on the Montmartre hill in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (France), located on rue Lepic, as well as its sister mill visible at the corner of rue Lepic and rue Girardon. The complex was once a famous public ball opened by the Debray family of millers, since the nineteenth century.
Sight 24: Maison de Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara's house is located at 15, avenue Junot, in Paris, in the 18th arrondissement.
Sight 25: The Wall of Love
The Wall of Love is a love-themed wall of 40 square metres (430 sq ft) in the Jehan Rictus garden square in Montmartre, Paris, France. The wall was created in 2000 by artists Fédéric Baron and Claire Kito and is composed of 612 tiles of enamelled lava, on which the phrase 'I love you' is featured 311 times in 250 languages. Each tile is 21 by 29.7 centimetres.
Sight 26: Crypte du Martyrium de Saint-Denis
The crypt of the martyrium of Saint Denis is a religious building in the Montmartre district, at 11, rue Yvonne-Le-Tac, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. It is the site of several significant episodes in religious history.
Sight 27: Espace Dali
Dalí Paris is an exhibition space for works by Salvador Dalí from the Dalí Universe collection, in particular sculptures and engravings. Renovated in 2018, the museum has more than 300 original works, representative of his work. It is located in Paris, in the Montmartre district.
Sight 28: Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris
The Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was formally approved as a national historic monument by the National Commission of Patrimony and Architecture on December 8, 2022.
Sight 29: Butte Montmartre
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 30: Musée de Montmartre
The Musée de Montmartre is located in Montmartre, at 8-14 rue Cortot in the 18th (XVIII) arrondissement of Paris, France. It was founded in 1960 and was classified as a Musée de France in 2003. The buildings were formerly the home of several famous artists, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Suzanne Valadon.
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