Paris is one of those cities that is so famous, even if you have never been you may feel an affinity with the place. You will find it difficult to spend just one week in Paris as it offers an unending number of attractions and activities to fill your time.
Here we will do our best to narrow it down to a list of only the best. Firstly, Disneyland Paris gets an honourable mention as a great alternative to travelling all the way to Florida and here you can get more information on how to get tickets.
Why not see how easy it is for a day trip to Disneyland Paris, proving you can fit it all in!
The Louvre
An obvious first prick, the Louvre museum is the world’s largest and most visited art museum. This museum is so vast that you would need weeks to fully appreciate its extensive collection of antiquities, Renaissance and Baroque art, statues, and carvings. It also houses the famous Mona Lisa by Leonardo Divinci.
Musée d’Orsay
Another museum on our list (Paris’ speciality) and the Musée d’Orsay is home to tonnes of iconic works of art by Impressionists and Post-impressionists such as Renoir, Manet, Van Gogh and Cézanne.
Eiffel Tower
No trip to Paris is complete without a visit to the world’s most famous landmark – the Eiffel Tower. You can ascend to level two where you will find shops and restaurants or go all the way to the highest observation deck in Europe.
Arc de Triomphe
At the western end of the Champs-Elysées stands the Arc de Triomphe, erected to celebrate the victories and remember the war dead of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It is truly a sight to behold and offers a beautiful view of the city from the top.
Paris Catacombs
In the final years of the 18th century, Paris was rapidly running out of cemetery space and thus mass graves at Les Innocents cemetery were literally overflowing.
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The answer to this problem turned out to be a network of limestone mines running under the city where some six million bones were moved in 1810. The catacombs are now a visitable mausoleum with femurs and skulls arranged in decorative patterns throughout the maze of tunnels. It is truly a one-of-a-kind experience.
Jardin Du Luxembourg
During the summer months, you will struggle to find a better place to take a relaxing break than Luxembourg Gardens. The palace is quite a sight but luxurious gardens surrounding it make up a beautiful environment home to more than 100 statues.
There’s also an orchard with rare apple varieties, the Medici Fountain, several greenhouses, and an apiary.
Tour Montparnasse
In the Montparnasse neighbourhood in the south of the city is Paris’ second highest building. There are not many tall buildings in Paris due to the extensive network of tunnels running under the city, making the ground less than ideal for such architecture.
For this reason, you should take advantage of the tower’s height and hop in the fastest elevator in Europe up 200 metres to get a completely unobstructed view of the entire city. On clear days you can see more than 40 kilometres from the open-air terrace.