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Date Place of Interest Remarks Transport Duration Admission fees History
26 Nov Arc de Triomphe Almost in front of the Métro: Charles de Gaulle- 11 min To go up: Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the construction
WED station Étoile ride Adult : €8 of the Arc de Triomphe after his most important
Child: €5 victory, at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. He
France Place Charles de Gaulle, Take from Nation station to promised his soldiers that they would march
Paris 8e. CdG-Étoile station through great arches when they returned
home. Although construction was begun soon
To go up : Using métro line 6 (green) after that, in fact the Arc de Triomphe was not
Open: 10h00-22h30 in the direction completed until 1836. The names and images
NATION → ÉTOILE carved on the monument relate mainly to
Napoleon's generals and the battles which he
won.
It has since been at the centre of much of
Paris's history with both the German occupying
army and the liberating Allied forces marching
through it during World War Two. The arc is
also the focal point of state funeral processions
with Napoleon himself and Victor Hugo being
just two historical figures whose funeral
corteges have travelled through the monument.
Louvre A second arc: Métro: Palais-Royal-Musée 9 min ride Adults: €8.50 A colossal French royal château turned into the
Arc de Triomphe de du Louvre Child: free greatest art museum in the world, the Louvre is
Carrousel is located at 3 min the most famous building on the Rive Droite of
Place de Carrousel, in front Take from CdG-Étoile walk to the Seine. The main entrance is via the
of Louvre station to PRM du Louvre Louvre mesmerising glass pyramid designed by IM Pei
station from and opened in 1989. Egyptian artefacts brought
Palais du Louvre, 1er. station to France after the Napoleonic campaigns.
Open: 09h00- 21h45 for Using métro line 6 (green)
Mon & Wed, otherwise in direction ÉTOILE → The Mona Lisa is the most famous of the
closes at 18h00 NATION paintings. This portrait of a lady from Florence
was painted in about 1504 by Leonardo da
Vinci, who brought the painting with him when
he was invited by the French king to live and
work in France. It was stolen in 1911 but found
(in Florence) two years later. The Venus de Milo
is an ancient statue of a woman which was
found on the island of Milo (in Greece) in 1820.
It dates from the 2nd century BC. The Winged
Victory of Samothrace is another famous Greek
statue. See Annex 2 for more details
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Date Place of Interest Remarks Transport Duration Admission fees History
26 Nov Jardin des Rue de Rivoli Walk from Louvre to Jardin - Free It was commissioned by Catherine de Médicis
WED Tuileries 75001 – PARIS des Tuileries and covers 25ha. The two terraces which form
(Tuileries the north and south borders blossom out into
France Garden) Beside Arc du Triomphe de or wide sinuous slopes in front of the Place de la
Paris Carrousel, near Louvre Concorde. The northern side (Musée du jeu de
Métro : Tuileries Paume) is dominated by the terrasse des
Feuillants, named after a neighbouring
Benedictine convent.
The garden's sculptures are extremely varied
with contributions from Marly, Van Cleve,
Coustou, Le Paultre. There are two illustrious
buildings - the Orangery and the Musée du Jeu
de Paume. Other attractions include a
traditional merry-go-round, donkey rides and
small boats for hire.
Place de la Beside Champs-Élysées Walk from Jardin des - Free The place was constructed for the equestrian
Concorde Tuileries to Place de la statue of Louis XV, marking the intersection of
Concorde two principal axis: the East-West axis from the
perspective of the Tuilerie Gardens and the
or Champs Elysées, the North-South axis from the
perspective of la rue Royale and the bridge
Métro : Concorde created in alignment, but this was destroyed at
the time of the French Revolution.
The statue of Louis XV, removed during the
Revolution, was replaced by the Obelisk of
Luxor given by the viceroy of Egypt, Mohamed
Ali, to Louis Phillipe. The obelisk, 22.83 meters
high and weighing 230 tons, s one of two
obelisks which originally stood in the temple of
Luxor next to two huge seated statues of the
pharaoh Ramses the Second (the ruler of Egypt
from 1279 to 1212 BC).
At each corner of the octagon is found a statue
that represents one of the large French cities:
Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux,
Nantes, Brest and Rouen. The Horses of Marly
are copies. Real at Louvre.
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Date Place of Interest Remarks Transport Duration Admission fees History
26 Nov Petit Palais Avenue Winston Churchill Walk - Free It was created for the Universal Exposition of
WED Near Champs- 1900 as a city museum to showcase the works
Élysées Just walk past Petit Palais or bought from the yearly Salons. Most of the
France to get to Pont Alexandre III collection is the legacy of Auguste Dutuit.
Paris Métro: Champs-Élysées- Among this collection you can find ancient
Clémenceau artifacts, medieval objects, rare manuscripts
and books, Dutch paintings from the
Using métro line 6 (green) seventeenth century. The collection includes
western art from the Egyptian era to the
present. Dutuit also left a fund for the further
purchase of works.
Pont Alexandre - Walk from Place de la - Free It is Paris’ most opulently decorated bridge,
III Concorde past Petit Palais with lampposts and sculptures of cherubs and
to get to Pont Alexandre III nymphs. On each end of the Pont Alexandre III
are large gilded statues on 17 meters (56 ft)
or high granite pillars. Each of the ornaments on
the bridge was created by a different artist.
Métro : Invalides
It connects the Grand and Petit Palais on the
right bank with the Hôtel des Invalides on the
left bank. Built at the end of the 19th century to
enable millions of visitors to more easily cross
the river, it took 3 years to build.
Esplanade des Musée de l’Arme right at Walk down Esplanade des - Free Designed by Robert de Cotte, the large lawns of
Invalides the bottom Invalides to reach Musée the Esplanade are regularly used for picnics and
de l’Arme for sunning. On week-ends, neighborhood
soccer games are common events. Roller-
or bladers and skate-boarders use the asphalt
areas on the north end of the Esplanade. This is
Métro : Invalides also where the pétanque, or boules, players
meet for their games. The Musée de l’Arme has
the finest collections of arms, armour and
uniforms.
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Date Place of Interest Remarks Transport Duration Admission fees History
26 Nov Eiffel Tower To avoid the queues come Long walk from Musée - Take Elevator to The Eiffel Tower was designed by Gustav Eiffel
nd
WED early in the morning or l’Arme 2 floor: for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889
visit at night when the commemorating the centenary of the French
France tower is lit up with over or Adult: €7.80 Revolution. The Prince of Wales, later King
Paris 10,000 lights. Child: €4.30 Edward VII of England, opened the tower.
Métro: Bir-Hakeim When completed the tower was the tallest
Champ de Mars, 7e. Using line 6 (green) building in the world at 300 m. The number of
Open: daily 09h30-23h00. steps in the east pillar to the top is 1665. The
or tower is composed of a base standing on 4 main
pillars extended with a much lighter batter at
RER : Champ-de-Mars the smaller level that constitutes the second
floor. A tower is firmly attached atop. During its
lifetime, the Eiffel Tower has also witnessed a
few strange scenes, including being scaled by a
mountaineer in 1954, and parachuted off of in
1984 by two Englishmen. In 1923 a journalist
rode a bicycle down from the first level.
27 Nov Mont St-Michel At the entrance of this - Abbey Almost a kilometre off the Brittany coast, it is
THU medieval town is the Adult: €8.50 invaded by the highest tides in Europe. When
Normandie ancient Burgher’s 18-25 yrs : €5 the sea is at low ebb you can easily walk to the
Guardroom now the Child: free tiny village along a causeway. When the tide
Tourist Office. After going 4 museums comes in however, the sea separates the
through the Boulevard Adult: 16 € enclave from the mainland. The village itself is a
Gate and then the King’s Uni: 12,50 € Gothic maze of staircases that progress up to
Gate fortified with its Student: 9 € the towering edifice of the abbey church. It
portcullis, you will find the 1 museum represents the majesty of Romanesque art and
« Grande Rue » or main Adult: 8 € is registered on UNESCO's "World Heritage" list.
street wih its museums, Student: 4.50 €
shops and houses dating It was at the request of Michael the Archangel,
from the 15th and 16th "head of the heavenly armies" that Saint
centuries. Access to the Aubert, bishop of Avranches, built and
center of Mont Saint- consecrated a first church on 16th October 709.
Michel is about 200 In 966, at the request of the Duke of Normandy,
metres from the car park, a community of Benedictines established
this can be accessed easily, themselves on the rock. For eight centuries,
as there are no steps. they did not stop building, enlarging, and
improving their Abbey.
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Mont St-Michel In other to access the In the 11th century, the Romanesque abbey
(continued) abbey, you will need to church was founded over a set of crypts where
climb the Grand Degré the rock comes to an apex, and the first
staircase (350 steps), this monastery buildings were built up against its
begins adjacent the Parish north wall. In the 12th century, the
church. Romanesque monastery buildings were
extended to the west and south. In the 13th
L’abbaye (abbey) century, a donation by the king of France, Philip
Augustus , in the wake of his conquest of
4 Museums Normandy, enabled a start to be made on the
- Archéoscope : Gothic section of the "Merveille ": two three-
A multimedia spectacle storey buildings, crowned by the cloister and
that presents the history the refectory.
and construction of Mont
St-Michel In the 14th century, the Hundred Years War
made it necessary to protect the abbey behind
- Historical Museum a set of military constructions, enabling it to
hold out against a siege lasting 30 years. In the
- Maritime museum : 15th century, the Romanesque chancel of the
Audio video system which abbey church, broken down in 1421, was
explains the phenomenon replaced by the Gothic Flamboyant chancel.
of the tides, the problems With the celebration of the monastic's 1000th
of silting of the site and anniversary,in the year 1966 a religious
exhibits the next works community moved back to what used to be the
which will take place. abbatial dwellings, perpuating prayer and
welcome the original vocation of this place. But
- Logis Tiphaine (tiphaine’s during the days of the French Revolution and
house) : Empire, the abbey was turned into a prison and
The 14th century needed to be restored before the end of the
residence that Bertrand 19th century. Friars and sisters from "Les
Duguesclin had built in Fraternités Monastiques de Jerusalem" have
1365 for his wife Tiphaine been ensuring a spiritual presence since the
year 2001.
Parish Church
Mont St-Michel was one of the most important
Maison du Pèlerin places of pilgrimage for the Medieval occident.
(Pilgrim's house) For nearly 1000 years, men, women and
children went there by roads called « paths to
paradise » hoping for the assurance of eternity,
given by the Archangel of judgement « Peseur
des âmes ».
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Date Place of Interest Remarks Transport Duration Admission fees History
28 Nov Château de Open: 09h30 - 17h00. TGV : 1 h 16 min With Brochure Standing on the River Cher, the Château de
FRI Chenonceau Paris-Montparnasse to Adultes : €10 Chenonceau is probably the most celebrated
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps 7-17 yrs : € 7.50 château of the many that are situated in the
Loire Valley (Tours) Students sur Loire Valley. Used as a working mill in the early
présentation de Middle Ages, the château, which was built by
7h50 – 8h53 leur carte : Thomas Bohier in 1513, spans the whole width
7,50 € of the river, seeming to float on water.
TER: 16 mins Including Musée
Saint-Pierre-des-Corps to de Cires Often referred to as the Château de Femmes
Chisseaux - gare de Adultes : €11.50 and owned by a succession of powerful
Chenonceaux 7-17yrs : €9 noblewomen – including Henri II’s mistress
Students sur Diane de Poitiers, the Queen Regent Catherine
Take the train TER No présentation de de Medici and her daughter-in-law Louise de
860804 in the direction of leur carte : €9 Lorraine – its developing style and décor
"Bourges - gare de benefited from their grace and charm. The
Bourges" interior is well known for its elegant 59m-long
(194ft) gallery, for the library used by Catherine
(only the 9h07-9h23 is de Medici, and for the famous guard room.
direct train, don’t miss it) Visitors can also see Francois I’s bedroom, Louis
XIV’s living room and Diane de Poitiers’s
bedroom. The castle was purchased by Henri
Menier in 1913 and is still owned by his
descendants to this day.
Château de Clos 2, rue du Clos-Lucé Adult: 9,50 € Le Clos Lucé is where Leonardo da Vinci spent
Lucé Code postal : 37400 Child: 6€ the last 3 yrs of his life, painting and working
Ville : AMBOISE until his death on 2nd May 1519. You can enter
Parc Leonardo da Family Pack: 30 € the Master Bedroom, his kitchen with its
Vinci Open : 09h – 18h00 (2 adults 3 monumental fireplace, the secret cabinets
children) =/ made of ivory-encrusted ebony, an Aubusson
Landscape tour not open tapestry, his fine Renaissance halls of brick and
(i think) stone, his workroom where he drew up the
plans for the Château de Romorantin, the
Places to Visit: oratory of Anne de Bretagne with its frescoes,
1. Hall the 18th century salons, the delightful chapel
2. Castle built by Charles VIII for Anne de Bretagne, and
the watchtower. The mysterious entrance to
the secret underground tunnel is said to link the
Château d'Amboise to Le Clos Lucé for King
Francis I to visit Leonardo. Discover his 40
machines, 4 centuries ahead of their time.
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Date Place of Interest Remarks Transport Duration Admission fees History
28 Nov Château Open : Adult : 9 €
FRI d’Amboise 9h -12h, Student : 7.5 €
Loire Valley 14h – 16h45 7-14 yrs : 5.3 €
29 Nov Cathédrale Notre Place du Parvis Notre Métro : Free Paris is divided into two parts by the Seine
SAT Dame de Paris Dame, 4e. Ligne 4 : Cité or River: Rive Droite (Right Bank) on the north
Open: daily 09h30-19h30 Saint-Michel Free guided side, or Rive Gauche (Left Bank) on the south
France Ligne 1,11 : tours side. In the middle of the river, atop the L'Île de
Paris Hôtel de Ville la Cité, rises the towering bulk of Notre Dame
Ligne 10 : For a fee, you cathedral. The construction of Notre-Dame de
Maubert-Mutualité or can climb to the Paris began in 1163 during the reign of Louis VII.
Cluny—La Sorbonne top of Notre Pope Alexander III laid the foundation stone. At
Dame's towers the end of the 18th century, during the
RER : and gaze down Revolution, many of the treasures of the
LigneB/C : St-Michel-Notre at the city along cathedral were either destroyed or plundered.
Dame with the Only the great bells avoided being melted
gargoyles that down, and the Cathedral was dedicated first to
perch atop its the cult of Reason, and to the cult of the
walls. Supreme being. The church interior was used as
a warehouse for the storage of forage and food.
Montmartre Attractions in Métro: Anvers 18 min Sacré Coeur Montmartre, hill of the martyrs, was named in
(Sacré Coeur) Montmartre : (preferred: no need to from cathedral: free memory of early Christians who were
1. Basilique du Sacré Cœur change line) Nation to persecuted by the Romans. It became the haunt
2. Place du Tertre Anvers But to access the of countless artists in the 19th century.
(11 Rue Poulbot, 18e) Take from Nation station to crypt: €5
3. L’espace Dali Anvers station The white Basilique du Sacré Coeur, atop
(12 Rue Cortot, 18e, short Montmartre, is more like a fabulous oriental
walk from Place du Tertre) Using métro line 2 (blue) in palace than a church. The place is magnetically
the direction Nation kitsch inside and out, although the Benedictine
Open: daily 06h00-23h00. →Porte Dauphine nuns and their hymns create a suitably religious
atmosphere each day of the week for mass.
or métro: Abbesses From in front of the basilica the views over Paris
are exhilarating. Since the area was a hill, there
was some legend that some saint was
beheaded there, but he took his head, walked a
certain distance before dying.
The French film Amelie was based in the
Montmartre area: the metro station Abbesses,
the area in front of the Sacré Coeur with the
merry-go-round and the Cafe des Deux Moulins
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Date Place of Interest Remarks Transport Duration Admission fees History
29 Nov Palais Garnier Place de L’Opéra Métro: Opéra, lines 3, 7, 8 Adult: €8 Designed by French architect Charles Garnier in
SAT (Opéra Garnier) 75009 Paris – Under 25: €4 1860, it is the largest theatre in the world. At
10:00am to 5:00pm SNCF/RATP the top is a gallery leading to the Grand Foyer
or (last admission 4:30pm) RER: line A, station Auber Paris-Visite containing a series of arches beautifully
Entrance under the voucher : €5 decorated with marqueterie of coloured
12 Dec Pavillon de l'Empereur marbles made originally by Venetian artists
FRI ramp, from the island of Murano.
France at Scribe and Auber streets Opera contained no less than seventeen floors,
Paris crossing, Paris 9ème a vast maze of stairways and corridors, lifts,
ladders and chutes, all interconnected yet so
complex that it was easy for any unwary person
to get lost. At least 2,500 doors.
14 Dec Versailles Château: 2 options : Built at the instigation of Louis (the proclaimed
SUN 9h à 17h30 1. Get one day "Sun King"), the palace was home to the royal
pass family from 1682 until 1790. Louis XIV chose the
France - King’s and Queen’s State 2. Get palace sun as his emblem. The sun was associated with
Paris Apartment and marie- Apollo, god of peace and arts, and was also the
- Chapel antionette heavenly body which gave life to all things,
- 17th-century galleries - estate tickets regulating everything as it rose and set. Like
History of France Galleries separately Apollo, the warrior-king Louis XIV brought
- Dauphin’s Apartments : peace, was a patron of the arts, and dispensed
the heir to the throne One Day Pass his bounty.
- Mesdames’ Apartments : Adult : €16
Louis XV’s daughters Below 18 : free Grand Appartement du Roi
'And since the Sun is the emblem of the King,
Domaine de Marie- Palace Ticket seven planets were taken to serve as the
Antoinette et Grand Full fare : €13.50 subject of the paintings of the seven salons of
Trianon : From 3pm : €10 this apartment' A room known as the
12h à 17h30 Abundance Salon led to other salon--Venus,
Marie- Diana, Mars, Mercury, and Apollo--each
Opera House is closed. Antoinette dedicated to a heavenly body.
Has a lot of temporary Estate Ticket
closures e.g. in the estate, Adult: €5 The Hall of Mirrors
so just be careful Below 18: free In 1919, the First World War officially ended
when Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles
Some Masterpieces: Gardens: in the Hall of Mirrors; Hungary signed the treaty
- Commode from Louis Free the following year in the Grand Trianon.
XIV's bedroom in the
Grand Trianon Adult tickets:
- Apotheosis of Hercules with audio-guide
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Versailles - Christ at Last Supper with Queen’s bedchamber
(continued) Simon The Rococo-style woodwork, as well as the
- Louis XVI's "butterfly" ceiling painting by François Boucher (1703-
cabinet 1770), were commissioned around 1730 by
- Apollo tended by Louis XV in order to please his wife Marie-
Nymphs of Thetis Antoinette. But she found this terribly old-
- Louis XIV visiting the fashioned, and decided to replace all the
Gobelins Manufactory furnishings with silk hangings woven in patterns
- Louis XIV of lilacs and peacock feathers, garnishing the
- Bonaparte à Arcole alcove and the enormous four-poster bed
History Galleries
They constitute the largest history museum in
the world. In 1837, King Louis-Philippe
commissioned 3,000 paintings from all the
artists of the day, including Eugène Delacroix,
so that the history of France could be told
through painted and sculpted imagery. The
museum was dedicated to 'all of France's
glories'. Therefore only victories are depicted,
not defeats.
Trianon-sous-Bois
Since the days of president Charles de Gaulle,
one lateral wing of the Trianon has been
reserved for the French head of state.
The Garden
In order to create her landscape garden, Marie-
Antoinette changed everything. The furious Duc
de Croÿ exclaimed in 1780 that 'the large green-
house [the most costly and scholarly in Europe]
was replaced by tall mountains, a large rock,
and a stream that cost so much money.'
Between 1776 and 1783 architect Richard
Mique built her a Chinese tilting ring, a Temple
of Love, the Rock Pavilion, a theatre, and then
the Hamlet. Numerous receptions and
nocturnal celebrations restored to the Petit
Trianon the spirit of the festivities that marked
the early years of Versailles.
