Itinerary
- ILE DE LA CITE`
+Concierge
+++Notre Dame
Pont Neuf
+++Saint Chapelle
- MARAIS
Musee` Picasso
++Place Des Vosges
Hotel de Sully
++Hotel de Ville
- BEAUBOURG
Centre Pompidou
+St Eustache
+Tour St Jacques
Tuileries
+++Louvre
++Orangerie
Place de la Concorde
Place Vendome
- ST-GERMAIN-DES-PRES
st Germain Des Pres
Odeon
+++Musee` d'Orsay
- QuARTIER LATIN
Cluny (museum)
Pantheon
- LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg
+Invalides (1691)
+Tour Eiffel
+Musee` Rodin
- CHAILLOT
Palais de Chaillot (with City of Architecture)
Arc de Triomphe
Champs Elysees
Opera (1862)
Madeleine
- MONTMARTRE
+Place du Tertre
++Sacre Coeur
- VILLETTE
CIte` des Sciences
- VERSAILLES
++Palais
- DEFENSE
++Grande Arche
- OTHERS
Biblioteque Nationale (interior)
Biblioteque St Genevieve (interior)
- ++St Denis (+Suger's choir)
- Jean Nouvel's L'Institut du Monde Arabe (1987, Paris)
- Jakob + MacFarlane's Cite de la Mode (2008, near Pont de Bercy, rive gauche)
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Notes
Trip difficulty: easy
Length: 4 days
Season: Summer
Approximate cost: $1,500
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See also the page on France
Recommended churches: Saint Chapelle, Notre Dame, St Eustache, Souflot's St Genevieve (1757)
Recommended restaurants: Anika (Rue Dancourt 10, near Montmartre, Metro Anvers), all the Indian restaurants in Passage Brady (metro Chateau d'eau ou Strasbourg St Denis)
Modern architecture: Grand Arc (Defense), Cite des Sciences
Recommended museums:
Orsay (impressionists),
Louvre (painting, antiquity),
Orangerie (Monet),
Cluny (medieval),
Pompidou (modern art),
Rodin,
Picasso.
Museums in Paris. If you don't know much about art, Paris is the place
to go: the museums have all the big names. If you know about art, you may
be disappointed: they mostly have minor works by great masters.
All the great impressionist paintings are abroad. The Orsay is a good
example of a large museum (and a beautiful one) that contains mainly minor
works by famous artists. The Louvre has mainly second-rate French paintings,
with a few Italian stars. The exceptions are notable, though: L'Orangerie
contains the huge Monet frescoes, and the Rodin has several masterpieces of
modern sculpture. Remember that museums in Paris are closed on tuesdays.
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