A medieval royal fortress on the eastern edge of Paris, with the tallest keep in Europe, over 50 metres high, built in the 14th century. Inside the walls is the Sainte-Chapelle of Vincennes, with Renaissance stained glass.
The Bois de Vincennes park next door is good for a walk afterwards. It's at the end of Métro line 1.
One of the biggest and best open-air food markets in Paris, stretching along the central strip of Boulevard Richard-Lenoir from the Place de la Basti…
An elegant 17th-century mansion in the Marais, with a decorated courtyard and a formal garden that leads through a passage straight into the Place de…
The great Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, begun in 1163 and reopened in December 2024 after the restoration that followed the fire of 2019.
A vast neoclassical temple on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the Latin Quarter, built as a church and turned into a resting place for France's grea…
The oldest surviving part of the medieval royal palace on the Île de la Cité, with a huge Gothic hall of the soldiers, among the largest in Europe.
A royal chapel built in the 1240s by King Louis IX to house relics of the Crown of Thorns, hidden inside the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité.
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