France

Paris & Île-de-France

The capital and the palaces and cathedrals within an hour of it.

Paris & Île-de-France is the 2 destinations below, not a boundary — this atlas holds which places belong to a region and deliberately not a line round them. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Open France on the full map →

2 destinations · 6 places recorded · about 5 nights to see it all

Art & museums Architecture Food Big cities Sacred places

Destinations

Paris

Nineteenth-century town planning at monumental scale, with the world's densest concentration of art inside it.

Capital city
3–5 nights

Chartres

The most complete Gothic cathedral in France, with 172 windows of 12th-century glass that survived two wars in boxes.

City
1 night

Places to see

Everything recorded across Paris & Île-de-France, in one list.

Musée d'Orsay

Impressionism in a Beaux-Arts railway station, and a better single visit than the Louvre.

Paris · Museum

Père Lachaise

A walled city of the dead with its own map, 44 hectares, and better company than most parks.

Paris · Park

Sainte-Chapelle

Fifteen windows of 13th-century glass holding 1,113 scenes, in a chapel built as a reliquary.

Paris · Church

The Covered Passages

Glass-roofed arcades from the 1820s, built before the department store and mostly forgotten since.

Paris · Street

Musée Rodin

The sculptor's own house and garden, where The Thinker sits outside and the queue does not exist.

Paris · Museum

Chartres Cathedral

172 windows of 12th-century glass that survived two wars in boxes, and a labyrinth in the nave floor.

Chartres · Church

Things to do

A market street before ten

Cheese, bread, a rotisserie chicken and a bottle, then eat it in a park; the most Parisian thing available and it costs almost nothing.

Paris · Food & table

The covered passages

Glass-roofed arcades built before the department store and mostly forgotten since — a two-hour walk in the dry.

Paris · Walk or hike

Journeys through Paris & Île-de-France

Camino & Sacred Europe

Six places people have walked to for a thousand years

15 days · via Chartres

Accommodation & restaurants

EuropeDoor lists neither, yet. Both are business listings rather than editorial entries: they need an operator who claims them, a verification tier and a way to keep prices current, and all three are blocked on the same thing as everything else commercial here. How listings will work · what is built and what is blocked.

Publishing a scraped hotel list would be quick and would be the first unverified thing on this site. That is the trade being refused.

The record

What this atlas holds about Paris & Île-de-France. The counts are derived from the region's own destinations and move when it does; the seasons and the daily cost belong to France and are repeated here rather than looked up.

Destinations: 2
Places recorded: 6
Experiences: 2
A full pass: about 5 nights
Best months: June, July, August, September
Typical day: €85–210 per person

Food, events and practicalities are on the country page

They belong to France rather than to Paris & Île-de-France, and repeating them on every region page is how two copies of a fact start disagreeing. France →