Insight Guides Pocket Paris (Travel Guide eBook)
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Perfect day itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package.
Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering fun and interesting things to do and see in Paris, from top tourist attractions like the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Montmartre and Notre-Dame, to hidden gems, including the Conciergerie.
Compact, concise and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal on-the-move pocket travel guide when you're exploring Paris.
- Cultural: delve into the city's rich heritage and get to know its modern-day life and people
- Inspirational: discover where to go and what to do, highlighted with stunning photography
- Practical: get around with ease with a free pull-out map featuring key attractions
- Informative: plan your visit with an A to Z of advice on everything from transport to tipping
- Innovative and unique extras: a free eBook and pull-out map
- Inventive design makes for an engaging, easy-reading experience
- Covers: Where to Go, What to Do, Eating Out, Recommended Hotels and more.
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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How To Use This E-Book
Getting Around the e-Book
This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Paris, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.
The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Paris, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
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 in Paris are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once 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 Paris. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.
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Table of Contents
Paris’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
Top Attraction #2
Top Attraction #3
Top Attraction #4
Top Attraction #5
Top Attraction #6
Top Attraction #7
Top Attraction #8
Top Attraction #9
Top Attraction #10
A Perfect Day In Paris
Introduction
Geography
The River
Paris Ambience
Population
A Brief History
The Capetians
English Rule and Religious Conflict
The Revolution
First Empire
The Restoration
Second Empire
Third and Fourth Republics
Fifth Republic
From the 1968 Riots to Mitterrand’s Presidency
Paris Today
Historical Landmarks
Where To Go
Île de la Cité
Notre-Dame
The West Front
Palais de la Cité
Palais de Justice
The Conciergerie
Sainte-Chapelle
Other Attractions on the Île de la Cité
Île St-Louis
The Louvre, Tuileries & Concorde
Palais du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
Lower-Ground and Ground Floors
First and Second Floors
Additional Museums
Palais-Royal
The Tuileries
Jeu de Paume and Musée de l’Orangerie
Place de la Concorde
The Grands Boulevards
Palais Garnier
Madeleine
Place Vendôme
Beaubourg, Les Halles & the Marais
Châtelet and Hôtel de Ville
Centre Pompidou
Les Halles
The Marais
A Cluster of Museums
Place des Vosges
Jewish Quarter
Bastille & Eastern Paris
Bastille
Eastern Paris
Champs-Élysées, Trocadéro & West
Champs-Élysées
Arc de Triomphe
Trocadéro
Western Paris
Bois de Boulogne
Around Monceau
Montmartre & Pigalle
Sacré-Cœur
Place du Tertre
Pigalle
La Villette
Latin Quarter & St-Germain-des-Prés
The Latin Quarter
The Sorbonne
Musée National du Moyen Age – Thermes de Cluny
Panthéon
Rue Mouffetard
Institut du Monde Arabe
Jardin des Plantes
St-Germain-des-Prés
Académie Française
Musée Delacroix and St-Sulpice
Jardin du Luxembourg
Odéon
Around the Eiffel Tower
Musée d’Orsay
Assemblée Nationale
Musée Rodin
Les Invalides
The Eiffel Tower
Musée du Quai Branly
Montparnasse
La Défense
Excursions
Versailles
Fontainebleau
Malmaison
Vaux-le-Vicomte
Giverny
Disneyland Paris
What To Do
Shopping
What to Buy Where
Markets
Sports
Spectator Sports
Participant Sports
Entertainment
Theatre
Opera and Ballet
Jazz, Pop and Rock
Cabarets
Clubs and Bars
Children
Calendar of Events
Eating Out
Classic to Contemporary
Where to Eat
Fine Dining
Global Cuisine
Eating Out with Children
Reading the Menu
To Help you Order
Menu Reader
Restaurants
The Islands
The Right Bank
Louvre and Tuileries
The Grands Boulevards
Beaubourg, Marais, Bastille and East
Champs-Élysées and Trocadéro
Western Paris
Montmartre and the Northeast
The Left Bank
Latin Quarter and St-Germain-des-Prés
Around the Eiffel Tower
Montparnasse
A–Z Travel Tips
A
Accommodation (see also Hotel Listings click here)
Airports
B
Bicycle Hire (Rental)
Budgeting for Your Trip
C
Camping
Car Hire (Rental)
Climate
Clothing
Crime and Safety
D
Driving
E
Electricity
Embassies and Consulates
Emergencies
G
Getting There (see also Airports)
Guides and Tours
H
Health and Medical Care (see also Emergencies)
L
LGBTQ Travellers
Lost Property
M
Maps
Media
Money
O
Opening Hours
P
Police (see also Emergencies)
Post Offices
Public Holidays
T
Telephones
Time Differences
Tipping
Toilets
Tourist Information
Transport
Travellers with Disabilities
V
Visas and Entry Requirements
W
Websites
Y
Youth Hostels
Recommended Hotels
The Islands
The Right Bank
Louvre and Tuileries
The Grands Boulevards
Beaubourg, Marais and Bastille
Western Paris
Montmartre
The Left Bank
Latin Quarter and St-Germain-des-Prés
Around the Eiffel Tower
Montparnasse
Paris’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
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Centre Pompidou
The inside-out museum showcases art from 1905 to the present day. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #2
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Arc de Triomphe
Built to celebrate Napoleon’s victories, it dominates the Champs-Élysées. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #3
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Eiffel Tower
Built for the 1889 World Fair, it is still the most potent symbol of Paris. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #4
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The Marais
Atmospheric streets, museums, trendy bars, and some of the city’s finest architecture. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #5
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Jardin du Luxembourg
The perfect Parisian park. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #6
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The Louvre
Once the home of kings, now home to the world’s most outstanding art collection. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #7
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Montmartre
Artistic heritage, lively bars and some of the most romantic streets in the city. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #8
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Place des Vosges
One of Paris’ most lovely squares. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #9
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Notre-Dame
A monument to Catholicism and the skill of the great Gothic architects. For more information, click here.
Top Attraction #10
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Musée d’Orsay
A treasure trove of Impressionist works. For more information, click here.
A Perfect Day In Paris
8.00am
Breakfast
If your hotel doesn’t serve breakfast, ask the concierge for directions to the nearest good boulangerie; buy some freshly-baked croissants or pains au chocolat and find a leafy square nearby to eat them in.
9.00am
Seine boat tour
Begin at the city’s origin, the River Seine. Make your way to the western tip of the Île de la Cité, via the steps down from Pont-Neuf. From here, take one of the Vedettes du Pont-Neuf boat tours; it is a lovely way to see the city.
10.30am
Rue de Seine
From Pont-Neuf, walk along quai de Conti, then amble down characterful rue de Seine with its art and fashion boutiques.
11.00am
Coffee break
At the Palais du Luxembourg, turn left and walk along the railings of the famous Jardin du Luxembourg, the most elegant of Paris’s parks. Stop for a strong espresso at smart café Le Rostand (for more information, click here), on the square at the garden’s eastern tip.
12 noon
Park and lunch
After a stroll through the Jardin du Luxembourg among joggers, boules players and smooching couples, make your way to nearby restaurant La Ferrandaise (for more information, click here) and enjoy a nice light lunch of updated French classics.
2.00pm
Paris history
Walk towards the river along teeming boulevard St-Michel, then catch the Métro to St-Paul. Walk up rue Malher to the Musée Carnavalet (for more information, click here) and spend an hour or two exploring Paris’s history through the paintings and artefacts.
4.30pm
Retail therapy
Make your way back to Métro St-Paul and go straight to Charles-de-Gaulle-Étoile station. Take a moment outside the station to admire the Arc de Triomphe (for more information, click here), then walk down the Champs-Élysées, dipping into the swanky, big-brand shops as you go.
6.00pm
Montmartre and dinner
Take the Métro to Abbesses, on the hill of Montmartre. Follow your