What's where in Paris?

Map key			TOP SITES
	Best art museums		Other museums
	Parks		Other sites
	Shopping		Other locations

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🞉 The five top sites in Paris ■  Eiffel Tower ■ Arc de Triomphe ■ Champs Elysées ■ Notre Dame cathedral ■ Montmartre
🞉 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. Free The 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.

  Other museums         
    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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