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From Notre-Dame to the Pantheon
The starting point is the center of Paris and one of its most famous symbols: Notre-Dame Cathedral.
From the emblem of the Gothic style, we will walk through the Latin Quarter and its narrow and winding medieval streets, visiting the legendary Sorbonne University and its schools, until the Pantheon.
We will be led in our visit by the stories of characters such as: Voltaire, Rousseau, Madame Curie and many others.
From the Louvre (exteriors) to the Invalids
Starting from the former Royal Palace and currently Louvre Museum we will evoke the history of the French Monarchy. Passing by the Place de la Concorde we’ll remember the Revolution and its victims, admire the Champs Elysées, talk about the Great Expositions of Paris with the Grand and Petit Palais and end up at the Hotel des Invalides which also houses Napoleon's Tomb.
Montmartre: artists and bohemian life
One of the most famous neighborhoods of Paris, topped by the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
We will visit Montmartre walking through its narrow streets, we will breathe the bohemian Paris, the history of all the artists who have chosen it as their home from Toulouse Lautrec, to Van Gogh, Gauguin, Utrillo, Valadon, Picasso, Modigliani and many others …
The old Halles district and the Pompidou Center
One of the neighborhoods that has undergone the most transformation over the centuries, from a wholesale market to a large underground shopping center (Forum les Halles), with the stunning Saint Eustache church, up to the Pompidou Center build by the architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, which unleashed more than a few criticisms, but undoubtedly became the temple of contemporary art.
The Bastille and the Marais quarter
We will evoke one of the most famous events of the French Revolution right where it took place. Then we will walk through one of the most prestigious districts of Paris and we’ll admire its period mansions, the house where Victor Hugo lived in the very elegant Place des Vosges; we’ll tell you about Richelieu era, the “salons” of Manon and the letters of the Marquise de Sevigné...
Maigret's Paris
In the footsteps of the most famous commissioner of Paris...
We will visit together Boulevard Richard Lenoir, the Place des Vosges and other characteristic corners described by the pen of Georges Simenon, confusing places where the writer lived with those mentioned in the novels of the mythical commissioner.
Of course, a self-respecting guided tour can only end the tour of the Paris of Maigret at the address now famous throughout the world: Quai des Orfevres.
Paris by Victor Hugo
Definitely one of France's most famous writers!
We can start by visiting Hugo's house in the Place des Vosges and then evoke the sites described in his novels set in Paris.
The streets where Gavroche steals bread to feed two children, the places where the homeless sheltered for the night in "Les Miserables"; between history and legend, passing from Victor's real life to that of Gavroche, Quasimodo, Esmeralda and a thousand other characters.
The central islands of Paris
Our walk will begin on the Ile de la Cité, from the Pont Neuf we will see the end of the largest island, the Ile de la Cité, with the amazing Place Dauphine, to move on to the Palais de Justice, Conciergerie, Saint Chapelle (exterior), Notre Dame Cathedral and then move on to the second island, Saint Louis with its elegant hotels particuliers (stately homes), bridges and narrow streets.
From Notre Dame to Concorde Square
A stroll along the "quai de la Seine", the legendary Seine River, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The imprint of all the history of France through the Palais de Justice, the Pont Neuf with the statue of Henri IV, the Samaritaine now open after 17 years of restoration, the Mint, the Institut de France, the Louvre and the Tuileries garden. Centuries of history up to the Place de la Concorde where more than a thousand people fell during the French Revolution.
The Père Lachaise Cemetery
The largest of the Parisian cemeteries and also the most visited in the world.
Walk through the graves of men and women of great fame in the most diverse fields: Oscar Wilde, Lafontaine, Molière, Jim Morrison, Modigliani, Edith Piaf, Proust...but also Kardec, Guillaume Apollinaire, Balzac, Delacroix, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand just to name a few.
Passage Couverts
Passages that allowed (sheltered from the rain) to stroll, shop, go to a restaurant... while crossing period buildings, with the second floor still housing lucky Parisians.
They were so successful in the 1800's that the city of Paris alone had 150 of them. We will cross some of them on the right bank, mainly in the Grands Boulevards neighborhood.
La Defense
A neighborhood in the suburbs of Paris (Nanterre, Courbevoie et Puteaux) composed of skyscrapers, offices, housing and shopping centers.
A project that was born in 1958 that allows us to take a walk among buildings of contemporary architecture. Knowing that 150,000 people work there and that it is the largest business district in Europe... let us be surprised by the modernity of the site!
From the Pompidou Center to the Opera
Starting from a building that has become one of the symbols of Paris, the Pompidou Center, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, dedicated to contemporary art and culture (exterior), we'll cross the halles district to arrive at the Opera House designed by Charles Garnier and, since 1875, the most prestigious in Paris.
Saint Germain-des-Près
This district was created around the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, consecrated in the 6th century.
The reputation of the neighborhood is due to the attraction it has exerted especially since 1600 on intellectuals, artists and people linked to the history of France.
Among the inhabitants of this neighborhood we can mention Marat, Danton, Guillotin...
After the Second World War, the famous existentialists, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, the singer Juliette Greco ... and many other personalities!