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    Pocket-sized travel guides featuring the very best routes and itineraries.

    Discover the best of Paris with this indispensably practical Insight Explore Guide. From making sure you don't miss out on must-see attractions like the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Latin Quarter and Montmartre, to discovering hidden gems, including Belleville, the easy-to-follow, ready-made walking routes will save you time, help you plan and enhance your visit to Paris.

    Practical, pocket-sized and packed with inspirational insider information, this is the ideal on-the-move companion to your trip to Paris.

    - Over 20 walks and tours: detailed itineraries feature all the best places to visit, including where to eat along the way
    - Local highlights: discover what makes the area special, its top attractions and unique sights, and be inspired by stunning imagery
    - Insider recommendations: where to stay and what to do, from active pursuits to themed trips
    - Hand-picked places: find your way to great hotels, restaurants and nightlife using the comprehensive listings
    - Practical maps: get around with ease and follow the walks and tours using the detailed maps 
    - Informative tips: plan your visit with an A to Z of advice on everything from transport to tipping
    - Inventive design makes for an engaging, easy-reading experience
    - Covers: Iles St-Louis and de la Cité, the Louvre and Tuileries, the 7th arrondissement, the Champs-Elysées and Grands Boulevards, Beaubourg and Les Halles, the Marais and Bastille, the Latin Quarter, St-Germain, Montmartre, the Trocadéro, the Père Lachaise, Northeast Paris, Bercy and Vincennes, Western Paris, La Défense, Malmaison, Versailles, Fontainebleau, Giverny and Disneyland Paris.

    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.

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    PublisherInsight Guides
    Release dateOct 1, 2019
    ISBN9781839051807
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      How To Use This E-Book

      This Explore Guide has been produced by the editors of Insight Guides, whose books have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970. With ­top-­quality photography and authoritative recommendations, these guidebooks bring you the very best routes and itineraries in the world’s most exciting destinations.

      Best Routes

      The routes in this book provide something to suit all budgets, tastes and trip lengths. As well as covering the destination’s many classic attractions, the itineraries track lesser-known sights, and there are also ex­cursions for those who want to extend their visit outside the city. The routes embrace a range of interests, so whether you are an art fan, a gourmet, a history buff or have kids to entertain, you will find an option to suit.

      We recommend reading the whole of a route before setting out. This should help you to familiarise yourself with it and enable you to plan where to stop for refreshments – options are shown in the ‘Food and Drink’ box at the end of each tour.

      Introduction

      The routes are set in context by this introductory section, giving an overview of the destination to set the scene, plus background information on food and drink, shopping and more, while a succinct history timeline highlights the key events over the centuries.

      Directory

      Also supporting the routes is a Directory chapter, with a clearly organised A–Z of practical information, our pick of where to stay while you are there and select restaurant listings; these eateries complement the more low-key cafés and restaurants that feature within the routes and are intended to offer a wider choice for evening dining. Also included here are some nightlife listings, plus a handy language guide and our recommendations for books and films about the destination.

      Getting around the e-book

      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 mentioned in the text are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this 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 the destination. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

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

      Table of Contents

      Recommended routes for...

      Art enthusiasts

      Children

      Classic cafés

      Escaping the crowds

      Food and wine

      Literary types

      Parks and gardens

      Shoppers

      Explore Paris

      River Seine

      City layout

      Arrondissements

      Traditional divides

      Population

      Cultural scene

      Architectural development

      Gothic and Renaissance styles

      Baroque and neoclassicism

      The 19th century

      Early 20th century

      Later 20th century

      The 21st century

      Food and drink

      Contemporary and international

      Places to eat

      Brasseries

      Bistros

      Cafés

      High-end restaurants

      Cheese

      Varieties

      Drinks

      Alcoholic beverages

      Soft drinks and coffee

      Shopping

      The shopping map

      Couture and chains

      Tradition and change

      Galleries and passages

      Highlights

      History: key dates

      Early history

      The middle ages

      Renaissance and enlightenment

      Revolution, empire and republic

      20th century

      21st century

      The Islands

      Pont Neuf

      Statue of Henri IV

      Place Dauphine

      The Conciergerie

      Sainte-Chapelle

      The Marché aux Fleurs

      Notre-Dame

      Île St-Louis

      Island of Cows

      Quai d’Anjou

      Louvre and Tuileries

      Louvre background

      Artists move in

      Public museum

      Grand projects

      The pyramid

      Latest developments

      Tour of the museum

      The medieval Louvre

      Egyptian and classical antiquities and Italian sculpture

      French sculpture

      French masterpieces

      Mona Lisa

      Other first-floor highlights

      French and Dutch painting

      Other museums

      Break for lunch

      The Tuileries

      Public park

      Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

      Sculpture garden

      Hexagonal pool

      The Orangerie

      Waterlilies

      Basement gallery

      Jeu de Paume

      Centre National de la Photographie

      The 7th

      Quai Branly

      Champs de Mars

      Les Invalides

      Musée Rodin

      Highlights

      Musée d’Orsay

      Exhibits

      Champs-Élysées and Grands Boulevards

      Arc de Triomphe

      Champs-Élysées

      Grand and Petit Palais

      Palais de la Découverte

      Place de la Concorde

      The Madeleine

      Grands Boulevards

      Opéra

      Place Vendôme

      St-Roch

      Comédie-Française

      Palais Royal

      Beaubourg and Les Halles

      Centre Pompidou

      The architecture

      Entrance and services

      The permanent collection

      Studio Brancusi, IRCAM and Stravinsky Fountain

      St-Merri

      Red lights

      Les Halles

      Tour Jean Sans Peur

      St-Eustache

      Around Place René-Cassin

      Bourse de Commerce

      Astrologer’s column

      Fontaine du Trahoir

      Marais and Bastille

      Hôtel de Ville

      The Marais

      Hôtel de Soubise and Hôtel de Rohan

      Lunch options and shopping

      Musée Cognacq-Jay

      Musée National Picasso

      Hôtel Carnavalet

      Jewish Quarter

      Hôtel de Sully

      Place des Vosges

      Maison de Victor Hugo

      Bastille

      Place de la Bastille

      Opéra National de la Bastille

      The fashionable east

      The Latin quarter

      Jardin des Plantes

      Museum of Mineralogy and Geology

      The zoo

      Mosquée de Paris

      Arènes de Lutèce

      Rue Mouffetard

      Towards the Panthéon

      The Panthéon

      The Sorbonne

      Musée de Cluny

      Towards the Seine

      Square René Viviani

      Rue de la Huchette

      St-Germain

      Historic quarter

      Le Procope

      Boulevard St-Germain

      St-Germain-des-Prés

      Musée Delacroix

      Towards St-Sulpice

      St-Sulpice

      Highlights

      Odéon

      Jardin du Luxembourg

      Montmartre

      Les Abbesses

      Place St-Pierre

      Sacré-Cœur

      Place du Tertre

      St-Pierre-de-Montmartre

      Dalí Museum

      The original bistro

      Musée de Montmartre

      The displays

      Vineyard

      Castle of the Mists

      Renoir’s windmill

      Bateau-Lavoir

      Studio 28

      Rue Lepic

      Pigalle

      The Moulin Rouge

      Trocadéro

      Palais Galliera – Musée de la Mode

      Musée Guimet

      Palais de Chaillot

      Père Lachaise

      Cemetery tour

      Artists and writers

      Mur des Fédérés

      Lunch stop

      Belleville

      Passage Plantin

      Parc de Belleville

      Rue Rébeval

      Butte Bergeyre

      Place du Colonel-Fabien

      Northeast Paris

      Canal cruise

      Going underground

      Hôtel du Nord

      Rotonde de la Villette

      Parc de la Villette

      Géode

      Cité des Sciences

      The park

      Zénith

      Philharmonie de Paris

      Cimetière de la Villette

      Parc des Buttes-Chaumont

      Russian church

      Back to central Paris

      Bercy and Vincennes

      Bois de Vincennes

      Bois de Vincennes and Parc Floral

      Château de Vincennes

      Bercy

      Bercy Village

      ‘New’ Left Bank

      Western Paris

      Musée du Vin

      Maison de Balzac

      Radio France

      Alternative routes

      Architecture tour

      Art nouveau

      Modernism

      Musée Marmottan Monet

      Parks and gardens

      Bois de Boulogne

      La Défense

      New developments

      Grande Arche

      Royal Axis and impressive statistics

      Sculpture park

      Malmaison

      Background

      Country retreat and office

      Tour of the château

      First and second floors

      The garden

      Other attractions

      Versailles

      Beginnings

      Louis XIV

      Official court residence

      Revolution

      Napoleon

      Museum

      The main palace

      Trianons and hameau

      Grand Trianon

      Petit Trianon and Hameau

      The gardens and park

      Fountain displays

      Eating

      Fontainebleau

      Background

      Palace evolution

      Palace tour

      First floor

      Ground floor

      The garden

      Back to town

      Giverny

      Fondation Monet

      The house

      The garden

      Musée des Impressionnismes

      Disneyland Paris

      The main park

      Walt Disney Studios

      Disney Village

      Accommodation

      The Islands

      Louvre, Tuileries and Concorde

      Opéra and Grands Boulevards

      Marais

      Champs-Élysées, Trocadéro and West

      Montmartre

      The east and northeast

      The Latin quarter and St-Germain

      The 7th

      Montparnasse

      Restaurants

      The Islands

      Louvre, Tuileries and Concorde

      Opéra and Grands Boulevards

      The 7th

      Champs-Élysées and Trocadéro

      Beaubourg and Les Halles

      Marais and Bastille

      Latin quarter/St-Germain

      Montmartre

      The east and northeast

      Western Paris

      Montparnasse and the New Left Bank

      Nightlife

      Theatre

      Dance

      Music

      Film

      Cabarets

      Clubs

      A-Z

      A

      Addresses

      B

      Bicycles

      Business hours

      C

      Climate

      Clothing

      Size conversions

      Crime and safety

      Customs regulations

      D

      Disabled travellers

      E

      Electricity

      Embassies/Consulates

      Emergency numbers

      G

      Green issues

      H

      Health

      Pharmacies

      I

      Internet

      L

      LGBTQ travellers

      LGBTQ literature

      Lost property

      M

      Maps

      Media

      Money

      P

      Post

      Public holidays

      R

      Religion

      S

      Smoking

      Stamps

      T

      Telephones

      Time zones

      Tipping

      Tour operators

      Tourist information

      Transport

      Arrival

      Airports

      Transport within Paris

      Car rental

      V

      Visas

      Language

      General

      Getting around

      Emergencies

      Shopping

      Sightseeing

      Dining out

      Online communications

      Social media

      Books and Film

      Books

      History

      Art and architecture

      Expat memoirs

      Fiction

      Food

      Films

      New wave

      Recommended Routes For...

      Art Enthusiasts

      From the big three – the Louvre (route 2), Musée d’Orsay (route 3) and Centre Pompidou (route 5) – to the more intimate Musée Rodin (route 3), Musée Jacquemart-André (route 4) or Monet’s house in Giverny (route 19).

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      Children

      Try boating in the Tuileries or Jardin du Luxembourg (routes 2 and 8), combine the zoo and the dinosaurs at the Jardin des Plantes (route 7) or head out of the capital to Disneyland (route 20).

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      Classic Cafés

      Take it easy with the bohemian crowd in the Marais (route 6) or sip coffee like the existentialists at Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore in St-Germain (route 8).

      Ming Tang-Evans/Apa Publications

      Escaping the Crowds

      Find a quiet corner at Père Lachaise cemetery (route 11) or head off the beaten tourist track to the up-and-coming northeast (route 12) or the smart 16th arrondissement (route 14).

      Ming Tang-Evans/Apa Publications

      Food and Wine

      The 7th (route 3), home to some of the city’s best restaurants, the Champs-Élysées (route 4) for Ladurée macaroons, rue Mouffetard (route 7), with its vibrant food market, or Bercy’s former wine warehouses (route 13).

      Kevin Cummins/Apa Publications

      Literary Types

      Pay homage to Victor Hugo in the Marais (route 6), rifle through racks of antiquarian books in the Latin Quarter (route 7) or visit Balzac’s house in Passy (route 14).

      Ming Tang-Evans/Apa Publications

      Parks and Gardens

      Take a break in main parks such as the Tuileries and the Luxembourg (routes 2 and 8), or sample less well-known green spaces including the impressively-planned Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (route 12).

      iStock

      Shoppers

      The department stores on the Grands Boulevards (route 4), the boutiques of the Marais and Bastille (route 6) and the bookshops of the Latin Quarter (route 7).

      Getty Images

      Explore Paris

      With two World Heritage sites, over 200 museums, more than 420 parks and gardens, and nearly 200 churches and temples, it’s not surprising that Paris’s population of 2.2 million have to share their good fortune with around 16 million visitors a year.

      Paris is a comparatively compact city and more suited to walking than many, particularly for a capital. The city runs for 13km (8 miles) east and west, around 9km (6 miles) north and south, and is contained by the Périphérique, a ring road that is famous for its traffic, which runs 35km (22 miles) around it. The suburbs (la banlieue) form two concentric rings around Paris, and are split into départements or counties.

      Young doodlers at the Berges sur Seine

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      River Seine

      The city is cut through the middle by the River Seine, which is spanned by 37 bridges. The river is the city’s calmest – and widest – artery, barely ruffled by the daily flow of tourist and commercial boat traffic. It enters Paris close to the Bois de Vincennes in the southeast and meanders gently north and south past three small islands: Île St-Louis, Île de la Cité and, on its way out, Île des Cygnes.

      Chains of hillocks rise up to the north of the river, including Montmartre (the highest point of the city), Ménilmontant, Belleville and Buttes-Chaumont (butte means ‘hill’); and, to the south, Montsouris, the Mont Sainte-Geneviève, Buttes aux Cailles and Maison Blanche.

      Family values

      As part of the government’s policy to encourage population growth in France, each famille nombreuse (i.e. with three children or more) is rewarded with benefits including nursery provision, subsidised public transport, sports equipment, car tax and school meals, and free admission to museums. The birth rate, which had been declining for years is now on the rise. The National Institute for Statistics now measures the rate at more than two births per woman, this increase has been boosted by France’s large Muslim community.

      City layout

      One of the most persistent images of Paris is of elegant long avenues lined with huge chestnut and plane trees. Chains of broad boulevards encircle the centre of the city, marking where the boundary was in medieval times. Many of the capital’s streets contain the word faubourg, indicating that they were once part of the suburb outside the city wall.

      Arrondissements

      In fact, the capital is organised into arrondissements (districts), which spiral outwards in a neat snail-shell pattern from the Île-de-France (the 1st arrondissement) to the northeast (the 20th). All of these are contained within the Périphérique ring road. When Parisians explain where they live, they typically begin with the number of their arrondissement. Within these areas are recognised quartiers, or neighbourhoods, each of which has a distinctive character.

      Traditional divides

      According to an old saying, the Left Bank (south of the river) was where you did your thinking – the Sorbonne university has been located there since the Middle Ages – and the Right Bank (north of the river) was the place to spend money. Yet, in addition to this historic divide, there is a marked unofficial division between the traditionally working-class eastern end of the city and the mostly bourgeois west. In general, the further east you go, the further left you will also find yourself on the political spectrum. City planners have been struggling for decades to redress the social imbalance, culminating in urban-renewal projects around the Bastille (for more information, click here) and in Bercy (for more information, click here).

      Time out in the Jardin du Luxembourg

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      Population

      Central Paris is more densely populated than London or New York, with its residents squeezed into tiny apartments in the city’s 87 sq km (33.5 sq miles). A house and garden is an almost unheard-of luxury, and there is intense competition for desirable living space, with an average of 150,000 people looking for a home at any one time. High rents, especially in the western arrondissements, add to the fact that many Parisians have neither the time nor the money to appreciate the city they live in, being locked in a routine that they describe as métro-boulot-dodo (commuting, working, sleeping).

      Nonetheless, for anyone who is fortunate enough to live in the city centre, the rewards far outweigh the demands. Human in scale, clean, cosmopolitan and lively, Paris lives up to

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