50 Things to do in Paris, France | Top Attractions Travel Guide
Earlier this summer we spent a whole 10 days in Paris and we decided we wanted to highlight some of the best attractions and activities around the city. Over the course of our visit we came up with 50 things to do in Paris, but of course, there are plenty more things you could experience here. We hope this guide will you plan your trip to Paris, and let us know if there's anything else you would add to this list. Now let's get started!
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50 Things to do in Paris, France Top Attractions Travel Guide:
1) Eiffel Tower - La tour Eiffel
2) Champ de Mars
3) Crêpe - Eat a crepe
4) Notre-Dame Cathedral (Notre-Dame de Paris)
5) Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (Arch of Triumph of the Star)
6) Avenue des Champs-Élysées
7) Have a Parisian picnic in the park
8) Bois de Boulogne
9) Rent a rowboat
10) Macaron - macaroon
11) Market Versailles
12) Marie Antoinette's Hamet - The Queen’s Hamlet
13) Palace of Versailles - Château de Versailles
14) Dance along the Seine at night
15) Love lock bridges
16) City views from the dome of Sacré-Cœur
17) Basilique du Sacré-Cœur - Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris
18) Croque-monsieur - grilled ham and cheese sandwich
19) Éclair - pastry filled with cream and topped with icing
20) Panthéon - Pantheon
21) Cimetière du Père-Lachaise - Père Lachaise Cemetery
22) Jardin des Tuileries - Tuileries Garden
23) Musée du Louvre - Louvre Museum
24) Bateaux Mouches - boat ride down the Seine river
25) Vélib' bike ride
26) Segway Tour
27) Jardin des Plantes - Botanical Garden
28) Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle - National Museum of Natural History
29) Centre Georges Pompidou
30) Le Marais - The Marsh historic district
31) Bastille Day - La Fête nationale - Le quatorze juillet
32) Jardin du Luxembourg - Luxembourg Garden
33) Palais du Luxembourg - Luxembourg Palace
34) Les Invalides - L'Hôtel national des Invalides
35) Grand Palais 'Great Palace' - Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées
36) Petit Palais - Small Palace
37) Citroën 2CV - deux chevaux
38) Sainte-Chapelle - Holy Chapel
39) Trocadéro
40) Parc de Princes - Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
41) Moulin Rouge
42) Cimetière de Montmartre - Montmartre Cemetery
43) Moulin de la Galette
44) Le Consulat Restaurant
45) Musée de Montmartre - Montmartre Museum
46) Mille-feuille French pastry - 'a thousand leaves'
47) Tarte au Citron - Lemon tart
48) Galeries Lafayette - French Department Store
49) L'église de la Madeleine - Madeleine Roman Catholic Church
50) Métro de Paris - Paris Metro
We're confident our travel video guide covered some of the top attractions in Paris along with some suggestions that wouldn't necessarily be found in a tourism guide book including information on festivals, arts, entertainment and dining along with French cuisine. Most of the French foods we sampled would be found at any kind of local French bakery (pâtisserie).
50 Things to do in Paris, France | Top Attractions Travel Guide Travel Video Transcript:
Hello, and welcome to Paris. This week we are exploring the city of love, city of lights and city of art. This video will be showing you the top 50 things to do while you visit Paris.
So we're wrapping things up here. What would be your one tip for visiting Paris? Well, I have recently spent a whole ten days here in summer. I would say that if you really want to visit the art galleries, the museums and all of the main attractions you should probably avoid summer and like either come in the spring or the fall or even winter. Because the lines are insane and sometimes you have to wait like an hour and a half or two hours.
So how about you? What are your final thoughts on Paris? So my finals thoughts is obviously Paris is one of the top cities in the world in terms of attractions. There is going to be garbage, there is going to be lines, there is going to be some areas that are a bit of an eyesore. But there is also a lot of beauty and there is also a lot to do here.
And that concludes our guide of the top 50 things to do and see in Paris. We hope you enjoyed watching, and let us know if there are other places you would add to this list.
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The Gem of the South of France: Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence is one of the oldest cities in the South of France, and is an absolute treasure. Sun shines in this city over 300 days on average per year, making it the perfect French getaway! I studied abroad in Aix for a cumulative total of around 6 months, and keep on coming back at every opportunity I get.
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Places to see in ( Saint Remy - France ) Les Antiques
Places to see in ( Saint Remy - France ) Les Antiques
Symbols majestic early times of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, the Arc de Triomphe and the Mausoleum of Jules are two exceptional Roman monuments, classified historical monuments since 1840. Universally known as the Antiques, their imposing and harmonious shapes have attracted, for centuries, walkers, painters and photographers, travelers and scholars, who made the emblem of Saint-Rémy well beyond our borders. For more than 16 centuries, they were the only visible elements of the Greco-Roman city of Glanum forgotten by all. This destroyed city was searched and brought back to light only from 1921.
The Municipal Arch materializes the limit of the urban space and commemorates, by its reliefs, the glory of Rome and the sad fate of those who opposed its tutelage. Deprived of its high parts (entablature and attic), it was raised at the entrance of the city in the years 10-25 AD. It is currently 8 meters high. The Arc was designed on a diagram very similar to that of Orange, although it has only one bay.
The Mausoleum is one of the best preserved memorial monuments in the Roman world. About 17 meters high, it rose at the entrance to the necropolis of Glanum. It was built in the years 30-20 BC. BC by the descendants of a local notable who had engaged in the armies of Caesar and was illustrated, to receive with Roman citizenship, the same name as the Dictator, Julius. The inscription engraved on the architrave of the west face of the monument bears witness to this: Sextius, Lucius, Marcus, son of Caius, of the Julii family, to their parents. The statues in the tholos represent two members of the family. Very degraded, they were replaced by identical copies during the restoration of 2007-2008.
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Places to see in ( Saint Remy - France ) Site Archeologique de Glanum
Places to see in ( Saint Remy - France ) Site Archeologique de Glanum
Glanum was an oppidum, or fortified town in present day Provence, founded by a Celto-Ligurian people called the Salyes in the 6th century BCE. It became officially a Roman city in 27 BCE and was abandoned in 260 AD. It is located on the flanks of the Alpilles, a range of mountains in the Bouches-du-Rhône département, about 20 km (12 mi) south of the modern city of Avignon, and a kilometre south of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It is particularly known for two well-preserved Roman monuments of the 1st century B.C., known as les Antiques, a mausoleum and a triumphal arch (the oldest in France).
Between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC, the Salyens, the largest of the Celto-Ligurian tribes in Provence, built a rampart of stones on the peaks that surrounded the valley of Notre_Dame-de-Laval, and constructed an oppidum, or fortified town, around the spring in the valley, which was known for its healing powers. A shrine was built at the spring to Glanis, a Celtic god. The town grew, and a second wall was built in the 2nd century BC.
In 49 BC Julius Caesar captured Marseille, and after a period of destructive civil wars, the Romanization of Provence and Glanum began. In 27 BC the Emperor Augustus created the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis, and in this province Glanum was given the title of Oppidum Latinum, which gave residents the civil and political status of citizens of Rome. A triumphal arch was built outside the town between 10 and 25 BC, near the end of the reign of Augustus, (the first such arch to be built in Gaul), as well as an impressive mausoleum of the Julii family, both still standing.
Glanum did not survive the collapse of the Roman Empire. The town was overrun and destroyed by the Alamanni in 260 AD and subsequently abandoned, its inhabitants moving a short distance north into the plain to found a city that eventually became modern day Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
The Mausoleum of the Julii, located across the Via Domitia, to the north of, and just outside the city entrance, dates to about 40 BCE, and is one of the best preserved mausoleums of the Roman era. The triumphal arch stood just outside the northern gate of the city, next to the mausoleum and was the visible symbol of Roman power and authority. It was built near the end of the reign of Augustus Caesar (who died in 14 AD). The upper portion of the arch, including the inscription, are missing.
Glanum was laid out on a north-south axis through the valley of Notre-Dame-du-Vallon. At the northern end was the residential quarter, with the public baths, and at the southern end was the sacred quarter, with the spring and grotto. In the center was the monumental quarter, the site of the forum and public buildings.
The northern part of Glanum, at the bottom of the sloping site, was the residential quarter: the site of villas and of the extensive public baths. The baths were the center of social life, and helped serve to Romanize the local population.
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Places to see in ( Saint Remy - France ) St Paul de Mausole
Places to see in ( Saint Remy - France ) St Paul de Mausole
Veritable masterpiece of Provençal Romanesque art, the Saint Paul monastery, built in the neighbourhood of the Gallo-Roman site of Glanum owes its name Mausolé to the proximity of the mausoleum of the Julii; it rises up out of the landscape thanks to its beautiful two-storey square steeple topped by a pyramidal roof. The covered walk goes around a finely maintained garden giving the stones all their grandeur.
Saint Paul de Mausole remains today a psychiatric health institution. The tour of the parts open to the public is subject to the respect of the tranquility of the place. In the former chapter houses and the Romanesque stairwell, you can see a permanent exhibition of works for sale, made by the patients at the art therapy studio Valetudo.
From the top of the stairs you can see the wheat field that Vincent Van Gogh contemplated and painted during his year of confinement in the men's pavilion. Upstairs, a room recounts the history of the Saint Paul Mental Hospital. Continuing to the right, you will find a reproduction of the room where Van Gogh was confined. Across from it, another room explains psychiatry in the 19th century.
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10 Things to do in Madrid, Spain Travel Guide
Come join us for this Madrid Travel Guide as we highlight what you can see, do and eat in the city over a short three day visit. When it comes to things to do in Madrid must visit attractions include the Buen Retiro Park, Royal Palace of Madrid, Temple of Debod and Plaza Mayor. However, foodies should take note that Madrid has plenty to offer. From tapas to churros dig in and make the most of it.
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Intro - 00:01
1) Royal Palace of Madrid (Palacio Real de Madrid) - 01:21 + Royal Armoury of Madrid (Real Armería de Madrid) - 02:33
2) Almudena Cathedral (Santa María la Real de La Almudena) - 02:41
3) Sabatini Gardens (Jardines de Sabatini) - 02:48
4) Spanish Tapas for lunch at Loredo - 03:21
5) Temple of Debod (Templo de Debod) - 06:23
6) Plaza Mayor of Madrid (Plaza Mayor de Madrid) - 06:55
7) Plaza de la Villa (Madrid Medieval Square) - 07:47
8) Market of San Miguel (Mercado de San Miguel) - 08:24
9) Buen Retiro Park (Parque del Buen Retiro) - 09:36 + Crystal Palace (Palacio de Cristal) - 10:21
10) Chocolatería San Gines for churros con chocolate - 10:55
Outro - 14:38 + Madrid at Night - 14:19
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Our visit Madrid travel guide documentary covers some of the top attractions including a food guide to Spanish cuisine, top sightseeing tourist attractions including visiting cathedrals, palaces, parks, squares, green spaces and museums. We also cover off-the-beaten-path outdoor activities you won't find in a typical Madrid tourism brochure, Madrid itinerary or Madrid city tour.
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Greetings from Madrid, Spain. Hello hello. And this is a city we visited 2.5 years ago in the summer. We're back with my parents this time and we're going to be here for just a few days making a little travel guide and we hope you guys will join along. This one is going to be a little bit different because last time we were in Madrid we ran around like crazy. We're going to take it easy focus on the highlights. Focus on food. Delicious Spanish food. We hope you guys will enjoy our little tour of Madrid.
The armoury turned out to be a real highlight with weapons and armour dating back from the 16th and 17th centuries.
We caught a glimpse at the Almudena Cathedral and continued towards the Sabatini Gardens, which are located directly behind the palace.
After lunch, we visited the Temple of Debod. This is ancient Egyptian temple that was given to Spain as a sign of gratitude for their help in saving the Abu Simbel temples. It dates back to the 2nd century BC and it’s one of the few works of ancient Egyptian architecture that can be seen outside of Egypt.
Plaza Mayor is the main square in Madrid. It is lined with shops and cafes under its porticoes. It was just a skip over to one of the most popular food markets with visitors.
Buen Retiro is a large park located at the edge of the city centre. It belonged to the Spanish Monarchy until the late 19th century, when it became a public park, and it’s home to various gardens, sculptures, monuments and small palaces
One of the most iconic buildings found within the park is the Crystal Palace, made of glass and iron, which is used for art exhibits throughout the year.
This cafe will make you feel like you’ve been transported back to the late nineteenth century. The walls are covered in mirrors and wood panelling, the tables are of white marble, the chairs and banquettes are deep green in colour.
Last but not least, we finished off our visit with an evening stroll through Madrid, and that pretty much wraps our trip! The city clearly has much more to offer than we were able to cover in just 3 days, but we hope this Madrid travel guide gave you a few ideas of what you can do with a short break in the city. Wishing you happy travels and we’ll see you in the next video as we continue our travels through Spain!
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The Most Adorable Towns in France
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Places to see in ( Troyes - France )
Places to see in ( Troyes - France )
Troyes is a town in the Grand Est region of northeastern France. Its medieval old town features narrow, cobbled streets lined with colorful, half-timbered houses, mostly dating from the 16th century. The town is home to several Gothic churches with striking stained-glass windows. These include the Troyes Cathedral, the Église Sainte-Madeleine and the Basilique Saint-Urbain.
Troyes has a lively centre that’s graced with one of France’s finest ensembles of half-timbered houses and Gothic churches. Often overlooked, it’s one of the best places in France to get a sense of what Europe looked like back when Molière was penning his finest plays and the Three Musketeers were swashbuckling. Several unique and very worthwhile museums are another lure. Troyes does not have any Champagne cellars. However, you can shop in its scores of outlet stores stuffed with brand-name clothing and accessories, a legacy of the city’s long-time role as France’s knitwear capital.
The downtown area is easily walkable however to go to the outlet malls requires a car. From one side of the downtown to the other is probably a 30 min walk. Troyes is located between to Paris, Reimes, Dijon, and Nancy making it an ideal base to explore the Champagne region. There are some lakes a short drive to the east of the city. The local football (soccer) team, ESTAC, is currently (2013 to 2014 season) in the second French division. Get tickets in the supporters section if possible as it is the cheapest and most exciting. It is very safe. Troyes has some of the best examples of preserved medieval houses in all of Europe, attracting many tourists. There are many old Churches throughout the city and wandering down the stone cobbled streets can make you feel like you are back in time. Besides this Troyes has some nice parks and squares. The Seine river runs through the city, dividing the downtown area roughly in two, and in nice weather you can sit beside it and sip some coffee.
Troyes offers a multimedia library, ice skating, a movie theatre, lazer tag, bowling, pools, and 4 museums. Musée d'Art moderne, Musée Saint-Loup, Musée de Vauluisant, and Musée de l'Apothicairerie. Saint-Loup is the best but they are all worth a look depending on your taste.
Lac d'Auzon-Temple and the Lac d'Orient are two man made lakes to the east of Troyes which are used to control the water levels of other rivers, they are very nice in good weather. As noted above Paris (west), Nancy (east), Dijon (south), or Reimes (north) can be reached for a day trip by car or train. The outlet malls mentioned above also have some good deals.
Troyes has been in existence since the Roman era, as Augustobona Tricassium, which stood at the hub of numerous highways, primarily the Via Agrippa which led north to Reims and south to Langres and eventually to Milan; other Roman routes from Troyes led to Poitiers, Autun and Orléans.
Many half-timbered houses (mainly of the 16th century) survive in the old town:
Hôtels Particuliers (palaces) of the old town
The Hôtel de Ville, Place Alexandre Israël, is an urbane example of the style Louis XIII. On the central corps de logis which contains the main reception rooms, its cornice is rhythmically broken forward over paired Corinthian columns which are supported below by strong clustered pilasters. Above the entrance door the statue of Louis XIV was pulled out of its niche and smashed in 1793, during the Reign of Terror at the height of the French Revolution; it was replaced in the nineteenth century with the present Helmeted Minerva and the device in its original form, now rare to see Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, ou la Mort
Museum of Modern Art (Musée d'Art Moderne)
Maison de l'outil et de la pensée ouvrière
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Historical museum of Troyes and Champagne-Ardenne
Museum of hosiery
Hôtel-Dieu-Lecomte apothecary
Saint-Loup Museum (Museum of fine arts)
Di Marco Museum
Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Cathedral
Saint-Nizier Church
he Gothic Saint-Urbain Basilica
Sainte-Madeleine Church
Saint-Jean Church
Saint-Nicolas Church
Saint-Pantaléon Church
Saint Remy Church
church of Saint-Martin-ès-Vignes
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Visiting Honfleur France
Visiting Honfleur France, is likely to make you want to stay put and never leave. Honfleur is one of the most beautiful villages of France.
There are plenty of things to do in Honfleur and sights to take see. Also many Honfleur accommodations, some chain type, but try and find an authentic place like the one we describe, La Cour Sainte Catherine.
This Honfleur B&B is one of the few Honfleur hotels with parking. Though admittedly you will have to reserve and it is a fair distance away and uphill.
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