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🞉 The five top sites in
Paris ■ Eiffel Tower
■ Arc de Triomphe ■
Champs
Elysées ■ Notre Dame
cathedral ■
Montmartre
🞉 Best art museums ■
The Louvre ■ Musée
d'Orsay ■ Orangerie ■ Jeu
de Paume ■ Monet/
Marmottan ■ Musée Picasso ■
Museum
of Modern Art ■ Petit
Palais ■ Grand Palais
■ Musée
Vuitton ■ Centre Pompidou ■
Musée
Rodin
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Other
museums ■
Les Invalides ■
Musée des Sciences ■
Museum d'histoire naturelle ■
Musée Carnavalet
🞉 Other sites ■ Sainte Chapelle ■ Père Lachaise cemetery ■ Paris Catacombs ■Latin Quarter ■ Le Pantheon
🞉 Parks & gardens ■ Jardins du Luxembourg ■ Jardin des plantes ■ Jardin des Tuileries ■ Bois de Boulogne
🞉 Shopping ■ Champs Elysées ■ Bd. Haussmann ■ Forum des Halles
In more detail.... with a few more sites
Top sites - the iconic monuments to visit
The five most iconic landmarks in Paris
- The Eiffel Tower - Paris's emblematic landmark. Click for ► more about the Eiffel Tower & tickets
- The Arc de Triomphe. The Triumphal Arch on the Champs Elysées, with the tomb of the unknown soldier
- The Champs Elyseés. Free The world's most famous boulevard - tree-lined shopping street from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe / Etoile
- Notre Dame cathedral, Due for reopening in 2024, following the catastrophic fire
- Montmartre village. FreeThe offbeat and artists' quarter of Paris - funicular, Sacré Coeur basilica ►. More about Montmartre
Best Paris Museums and Art Galleries
Best art museums in Paris
- The Louvre One of the greatest art collections in the world
- The Musée d'Orsay / Orsay Museum - Nineteenth and twentieth century art, including the Impressionists.
- The Orangerie - permanent home of Monet's most famous set of waterlilies paintings,
- The Pompidou Centre contemporary art museum and cultural centre in a building designed by William Rogers.
- Musée Monet / Marmottan, The Monet museum . ► More on Monet in Paris.
- Museum of Modern Art - The Paris Modern Art museum, at the Trocadero. Entrance free
- Picasso Museum - The largest collection of works by Picasso in a public museum, plus other artists.
- Rodin Museum - The world's largest collection of Rodin's sculptures
- Petit Palais.- City of Paris Art gallery A good collection, including paintings by the Impressionists. Entrance free.
- Vuitton Foundation - opened 2014. Modern and contemporary art, in a building designed by Frank Gehry.
Museums covering a trange of interests
- Les Invalides - The French military museum -
- Cité des Sciences - The Paris Science Museum at La Vilette
- Musée Carnavalet - Museum of the City of Paris - local history. Entrance free.
- Museum d'histoire naturelle The Paris Natural History Museum
- The Paris Sewers museum A guided tour under the streets of Paris.
Other sites
- The Banks of the Seine. Free Enjoy views of the river.
- The Pantheon and the Sorbonne. Where France remembers its greatest - tombs of Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Zola, Marie Curie and others
- The Latin Quarter. Free The oldest part of Paris with the narrowest streets. Around the Sorbonne. Boutiques, cafés, restaurants.
- La Sainte Chapelle Magnificent medieval chapel, with remarkable stained glass windows
- Place de la Concorde Free Between the Jardin des Tuileries and the Champs Elysées
- La Madeleine church Free - Large neoclassical church
- Le Moulin Rouge - Historic French cabaret venue
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