An early 18th-century château east of Paris, once rented by Madame de Pompadour, with fine Rococo interiors including a Chinese salon painted with monkeys and figures. The formal gardens were laid out in the style of André Le Nôtre.
The rooms are furnished as a grand house of the time, and the park is free to walk in.
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.
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.
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