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    Insight Guides Pocket Paris (Travel Guide eBook)
    Insight Guides Pocket Paris (Travel Guide eBook)
    Insight Guides Pocket Paris (Travel Guide eBook)
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    Insight Guides Pocket Paris (Travel Guide eBook)

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    Perfect day itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package. 

    Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering fun and interesting things to do and see in Paris, from top tourist attractions like the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Montmartre and Notre-Dame, to hidden gems, including the Conciergerie. 

    Compact, concise and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal on-the-move pocket travel guide when you're exploring Paris.

    - Cultural: delve into the city's rich heritage and get to know its modern-day life and people
    - Inspirational: discover where to go and what to do, highlighted with stunning photography
    - Practical: get around with ease with a free pull-out map featuring key attractions
    - Informative: plan your visit with an A to Z of advice on everything from transport to tipping
    - Innovative and unique extras: a free eBook and pull-out map
    - Inventive design makes for an engaging, easy-reading experience
    - Covers: Where to Go, What to Do, Eating Out, Recommended Hotels and more.

    About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInsight Guides
    Release dateMay 1, 2019
    ISBN9781789198218
    Insight Guides Pocket Paris (Travel Guide eBook)
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      Insight Guides Pocket Paris (Travel Guide eBook) - Insight Guides

      How To Use This E-Book

      Getting Around the e-Book

      This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Paris, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.

      The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Paris, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.

      In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

      Maps

      All key attractions and sights in Paris are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

      Images

      You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Paris. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.

      About Insight Guides

      Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

      Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

      © 2019 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

      Table of Contents

      Paris’s Top 10 Attractions

      Top Attraction #1

      Top Attraction #2

      Top Attraction #3

      Top Attraction #4

      Top Attraction #5

      Top Attraction #6

      Top Attraction #7

      Top Attraction #8

      Top Attraction #9

      Top Attraction #10

      A Perfect Day In Paris

      Introduction

      Geography

      The River

      Paris Ambience

      Population

      A Brief History

      The Capetians

      English Rule and Religious Conflict

      The Revolution

      First Empire

      The Restoration

      Second Empire

      Third and Fourth Republics

      Fifth Republic

      From the 1968 Riots to Mitterrand’s Presidency

      Paris Today

      Historical Landmarks

      Where To Go

      Île de la Cité

      Notre-Dame

      The West Front

      Palais de la Cité

      Palais de Justice

      The Conciergerie

      Sainte-Chapelle

      Other Attractions on the Île de la Cité

      Île St-Louis

      The Louvre, Tuileries & Concorde

      Palais du Louvre

      Musée du Louvre

      Lower-Ground and Ground Floors

      First and Second Floors

      Additional Museums

      Palais-Royal

      The Tuileries

      Jeu de Paume and Musée de l’Orangerie

      Place de la Concorde

      The Grands Boulevards

      Palais Garnier

      Madeleine

      Place Vendôme

      Beaubourg, Les Halles & the Marais

      Châtelet and Hôtel de Ville

      Centre Pompidou

      Les Halles

      The Marais

      A Cluster of Museums

      Place des Vosges

      Jewish Quarter

      Bastille & Eastern Paris

      Bastille

      Eastern Paris

      Champs-Élysées, Trocadéro & West

      Champs-Élysées

      Arc de Triomphe

      Trocadéro

      Western Paris

      Bois de Boulogne

      Around Monceau

      Montmartre & Pigalle

      Sacré-Cœur

      Place du Tertre

      Pigalle

      La Villette

      Latin Quarter & St-Germain-des-Prés

      The Latin Quarter

      The Sorbonne

      Musée National du Moyen Age – Thermes de Cluny

      Panthéon

      Rue Mouffetard

      Institut du Monde Arabe

      Jardin des Plantes

      St-Germain-des-Prés

      Académie Française

      Musée Delacroix and St-Sulpice

      Jardin du Luxembourg

      Odéon

      Around the Eiffel Tower

      Musée d’Orsay

      Assemblée Nationale

      Musée Rodin

      Les Invalides

      The Eiffel Tower

      Musée du Quai Branly

      Montparnasse

      La Défense

      Excursions

      Versailles

      Fontainebleau

      Malmaison

      Vaux-le-Vicomte

      Giverny

      Disneyland Paris

      What To Do

      Shopping

      What to Buy Where

      Markets

      Sports

      Spectator Sports

      Participant Sports

      Entertainment

      Theatre

      Opera and Ballet

      Jazz, Pop and Rock

      Cabarets

      Clubs and Bars

      Children

      Calendar of Events

      Eating Out

      Classic to Contemporary

      Where to Eat

      Fine Dining

      Global Cuisine

      Eating Out with Children

      Reading the Menu

      To Help you Order

      Menu Reader

      Restaurants

      The Islands

      The Right Bank

      Louvre and Tuileries

      The Grands Boulevards

      Beaubourg, Marais, Bastille and East

      Champs-Élysées and Trocadéro

      Western Paris

      Montmartre and the Northeast

      The Left Bank

      Latin Quarter and St-Germain-des-Prés

      Around the Eiffel Tower

      Montparnasse

      A–Z Travel Tips

      A

      Accommodation (see also Hotel Listings click here)

      Airports

      B

      Bicycle Hire (Rental)

      Budgeting for Your Trip

      C

      Camping

      Car Hire (Rental)

      Climate

      Clothing

      Crime and Safety

      D

      Driving

      E

      Electricity

      Embassies and Consulates

      Emergencies

      G

      Getting There (see also Airports)

      Guides and Tours

      H

      Health and Medical Care (see also Emergencies)

      L

      LGBTQ Travellers

      Lost Property

      M

      Maps

      Media

      Money

      O

      Opening Hours

      P

      Police (see also Emergencies)

      Post Offices

      Public Holidays

      T

      Telephones

      Time Differences

      Tipping

      Toilets

      Tourist Information

      Transport

      Travellers with Disabilities

      V

      Visas and Entry Requirements

      W

      Websites

      Y

      Youth Hostels

      Recommended Hotels

      The Islands

      The Right Bank

      Louvre and Tuileries

      The Grands Boulevards

      Beaubourg, Marais and Bastille

      Western Paris

      Montmartre

      The Left Bank

      Latin Quarter and St-Germain-des-Prés

      Around the Eiffel Tower

      Montparnasse

      Paris’s Top 10 Attractions

      Top Attraction #1

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      Centre Pompidou

      The inside-out museum showcases art from 1905 to the present day. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #2

      Ming Tang-Evans/Apa Publications

      Arc de Triomphe

      Built to celebrate Napoleon’s victories, it dominates the Champs-Élysées. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #3

      iStock

      Eiffel Tower

      Built for the 1889 World Fair, it is still the most potent symbol of Paris. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #4

      Ming Tang-Evans/Apa Publications

      The Marais

      Atmospheric streets, museums, trendy bars, and some of the city’s finest architecture. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #5

      iStock

      Jardin du Luxembourg

      The perfect Parisian park. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #6

      Ming Tang-Evans/Apa Publications

      The Louvre

      Once the home of kings, now home to the world’s most outstanding art collection. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #7

      Ming Tang-Evans/Apa Publications

      Montmartre

      Artistic heritage, lively bars and some of the most romantic streets in the city. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #8

      Ming Tang-Evans/Apa Publications

      Place des Vosges

      One of Paris’ most lovely squares. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #9

      Ilpo Musto/Apa Publications

      Notre-Dame

      A monument to Catholicism and the skill of the great Gothic architects. For more information, click here.

      Top Attraction #10

      Kevin Cummins/Apa Publications

      Musée d’Orsay

      A treasure trove of Impressionist works. For more information, click here.

      A Perfect Day In Paris

      8.00am

      Breakfast

      If your hotel doesn’t serve breakfast, ask the concierge for directions to the nearest good boulangerie; buy some freshly-baked croissants or pains au chocolat and find a leafy square nearby to eat them in.

      9.00am

      Seine boat tour

      Begin at the city’s origin, the River Seine. Make your way to the western tip of the Île de la Cité, via the steps down from Pont-Neuf. From here, take one of the Vedettes du Pont-Neuf boat tours; it is a lovely way to see the city.

      10.30am

      Rue de Seine

      From Pont-Neuf, walk along quai de Conti, then amble down characterful rue de Seine with its art and fashion boutiques.

      11.00am

      Coffee break

      At the Palais du Luxembourg, turn left and walk along the railings of the famous Jardin du Luxembourg, the most elegant of Paris’s parks. Stop for a strong espresso at smart café Le Rostand (for more information, click here), on the square at the garden’s eastern tip.

      12 noon

      Park and lunch

      After a stroll through the Jardin du Luxembourg among joggers, boules players and smooching couples, make your way to nearby restaurant La Ferrandaise (for more information, click here) and enjoy a nice light lunch of updated French classics.

      2.00pm

      Paris history

      Walk towards the river along teeming boulevard St-Michel, then catch the Métro to St-Paul. Walk up rue Malher to the Musée Carnavalet (for more information, click here) and spend an hour or two exploring Paris’s history through the paintings and artefacts.

      4.30pm

      Retail therapy

      Make your way back to Métro St-Paul and go straight to Charles-de-Gaulle-Étoile station. Take a moment outside the station to admire the Arc de Triomphe (for more information, click here), then walk down the Champs-Élysées, dipping into the swanky, big-brand shops as you go.

      6.00pm

      Montmartre and dinner

      Take the Métro to Abbesses, on the hill of Montmartre. Follow your

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