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Celebrated monuments, forgotten sites

Plus, they are decoded
  • Beyond the classic car or bus tour, at your own rhythm with frequent stops
Architecture from every epoch

As well...

 

• How Paris grew  – winds, ramparts and trade routes, basics that help you find your way

 

• Two keys – the power of kings and the impact of insurrections

 

 

  • Notre-Dame's medieval impact. The Arc de Triomphe's revolutionary warriors. Sex and money

    at the Opéra... 

 

 

     As its builders intended

•The Louvre and the d'Orsay

Works that influence France

 

 

Royal hommage to Revolution

•Senate

A republic's royal splendor

 

 

Edifice to decipher

•Versailles

Visionary power

 

 

•Art Nouveau

"Noodle art's" smiling façades

 

 

•Covered passages

Hidden, poetic and mysterious

•Architecture now

Aargh! or Wow! ?

•Père Lachaise cemetery

Garden of the dead

 

 

      •Saint-Denis

      Arches, kings and Reds

       

       

      •Costs: please CLICK 

       

       

       

       

       

      Credits : Eiffel Tower / Gilbert Cordier ; Versailles / Gaston Riou ; Saint-Denis / Harald Wolff ; other photos / Claude Abron

       

       

      Unexpected Paris guided tours