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Paris, France

Things to do in Paris

Everything in the Atlas for Paris: places to see and things to do, in one list.

Musée d'Orsay

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

Museum · 3 hours

Père Lachaise

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

Park · 2 hours

Sainte-Chapelle

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

Church · 45 minutes

The Covered Passages

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

Street · 2 hours

Musée Rodin

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

Museum · 2 hours

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.

Food & table · low

The covered passages

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

Walk or hike · low

This page exists because Paris has at least 3 of them in the Atlas. Destinations with fewer do not have a page for this, on purpose — a facet with one or two entries is a heading with a list under it that you could have read in full on the page you came from. Back to Paris.