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Top for Swoon- Coffee on Outdoor Terraces Queues at the Eiffel Tower ITALY & FRANCE PARIS DESTINATIONS ity of love. City of light. After a year spent living there treat at one of the city’s best CCity of art, culture, fashion, I still felt like I’d only scratched bakeries, Boulangerie Alexine. food... Paris is illustrious in the surface, and there’s always a almost every field, perennially reason to return. To help inspire 10.30: Notre Dame. Hop on a popular with romantics and both you and your clients, we’ve metro to Gothic-era Notre Dame, dreamers, fashionistas and put together a 48-hour guide, where the architecture is just foodies, artists and architects. including classic must-see sights as impressive on the inside as In fact, it’s a hit with anyone and unusual spots that’ll have the out, with its intricate stone who’s charmed by strolling along them feeling happily smug as columns and ornate chandeliers. peaceful river banks, sipping they skirt past the three-hour Then climb to the top for swoon- coffee on outdoor terraces queues at the Eiffel Tower. worthy views over the city (free and lingering over five-course entry; €10 to climb the towers). IN PARIS lunches, all the while surrounded w DAY ONE by champagne-coloured 09.00: Montmartre. Kick things 11.30: Musée d’Orsay. Wander Laura French beaux-arts buildings and off with a trip to Sacré-Coeur, west along the Seine, past the rounds up the emerald-green, palatial parks. the iconic basilica perched stone-built Pont Neuf – the city’s One visit isn’t enough. above Paris in the artsy northern oldest bridge – to reach the best sights in Paris Alongside all the traditional neighbourhood immortalised by Musée d’Orsay. It’s my favourite sights there are modern art the filmA mélie. It’s a steep climb museum here, with colourful for clients on a museums and eclectic flea up, but the panoramic city views impressionist works by the likes two-day getaway markets, bohemian hangouts are ample reward. Afterwards, of Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and and cutting-edge restaurants, while away some time exploring Degas, housed in a beautiful edgy neighbourhoods and the cobbled lanes, souvenir domed-ceiling building that @laurafrench121 world-renowned nightclubs – all shops and artists’ square that started life as a 19th-century of which mean you’re never short make up Montmartre. Round it railway station (entry is €12; of something new to see. off by picking up a breakfast closed on Mondays). TOP TIP Many sights are free for under-18s and for 18-25s living in the EU; some are free for all K C on the first Sunday O T S of the month utter PICTURE: SH PICTURE: 5 July 2018 travelweekly.co.uk 69 ITALY & FRANCE PARIS DESTINATIONS 09.00: Sacré-Coeur 10.30: Notre Dame 12:30: The Louvre 12.30: The Louvre. Loop back along the Seine and cross the What’s new? Pont des Arts to reach the Jardin des Tuileries is Louvre. The world’s largest w Paris’s first digital art museum, the Atelier des Lumières, opened in art museum and former home filled with colourful April with immersive exhibitions and artist-inspired light installations. of the monarchy, this palatial flower beds, marble building now houses more statues and an w The Musee Yves Saint Laurent opened last year on the site of the than 38,000 pieces, spanning elegant lily-pad pond designer’s former fashion house, with rotating exhibitions presenting ancient Egyptian artefacts to his collection. Michelangelo sculptures, plus the most talked-about painting on w Eating Europe Tours has launched its first Paris food tour, ‘Hip Eats the planet, Mona Lisa (entry is and Backstreets’, taking clients on a culinary journey round the 10th €15; closed on Tuesdays). here check out the Musée de arrondissement (€85 per adult from 12-4pm Tuesday to Saturday). l’Orangerie, where huge paintings 14.00: Lunch at Angelina. Ten by the likes of Monet, Cézanne minutes away on the rather plush and Sisley are displayed in an Rue de Rivoli you’ll find this elegant glass pavilion (entry €9). famous salon de thé. A Parisian institution since 1903 and once 16.00: Champs-Elysées. Walk an aristocratic haunt for the straight from the Musée de likes of Coco Chanel, it offers l’Orangerie to reach Place de delightful French classics such la Concorde, the spot where as croque monsieurs in elaborate Marie Antoinette and King belle époque surroundings, with Louis XVI were guillotined, then rich, creamy hot chocolates and continue along the tree-lined exquisite cakes its forte. Champs-Elysées Avenue via a string of shops to reach the 15.00: Jardin des Tuileries. Just colossal Arc de Triomphe. Built next to it sits Jardin des Tuileries, under Napoleon, this giant isn’t a manicured stretch of green only Insta-worthy from road level filled with colourful flower beds, – climb its 40 steps at night marble statues and an elegant and you’ll see the iconic Eiffel lily-pad pond. While you’re Tower glowing gold against a 5 July 2018 travelweekly.co.uk 71 DESTINATIONS PARIS ITALY & FRANCE 16.00: Champs-Elysées OF THE 3BEST otheR SIGhts 14.00: Angelina 20.00: Shang Palace Marché aux Puces de 12.30: St-Ouen: Saint- Considered to Michel be the world’s biggest flea market, this is a hotspot for antiques K C dealers, O T attracting up to S 3,000 traders utter and 180,000 visitors every weekend. SH PICTURE: The Catacombs: The skeletons backdrop of glittering lights, and cars creative, bohemian locals who meander of more than illuminating the Champs-Elysées like a along, sipping coffee on al fresco six million trail of blazing fireflies (entry is €8 for Start your day the terraces. Barge trips are on hand people can be adults, €5 for students). to whisk you along its pretty, tree- found in this proper way with a shaded waters and there’s a handful underground 19.00: Champ de Mars. From the Arc coffee and croissant on of ‘bobo’ (‘bohemian-bourgeois’) tunnel network, de Triomphe it’s just a hop, skip and a Place des Vosges, the cafes – including Chez Prune, which which is jump over the river to Champ de Mars oldest square in the city serves excellent coffee, brunches and now open to – home of the Eiffel Tower. No visit cocktails right by the water’s edge. tourists – as to Paris would be complete without fascinating as a quick stop to see this mammoth 12.30: Saint-Michel. Take the metro it is gruesome. structure up close, and the stretch of over to Saint-Michel, on the west Super green in front is a hotspot for picnics w DAY TWO: side of the Latin Quarter. Home to Break offers and photos. 09.00: The Marais. Start your day the Sorbonne and once a hotspot commissionable the proper way with a coffee and for philosophy types, it’s lined with tickets. 20.00: Dinner at Shang Palace, croissant on Place des Vosges, the olde-worlde bookshops (check out Shangri-La Hotel. If you’ve had your oldest square in the city. Chic cafe Shakespeare & Co), artsy cinemas, Lido: fill of French food for the day, head Carette Vosges serves fresh, buttery crêperies and fondue restaurants, Everyone’s to the Shangri-La Hotel just around pastries on an elegant arcade which make it the perfect spot for heard of the the corner to sample France’s only terrace that’s surrounded by ornate lunch on a cobbled street. cancan shows Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant, 17th-century buildings, including the at the Moulin where the likes of Peking duck former house of Victor Hugo, author of 14.30: The Panthéon. While you’re Rouge, but for with pancakes and giant paprika Les Misérables. in Saint-Michel, pay a visit to the an alternative king prawns are paired with wines Afterwards, stroll the medieval lanes Panthéon, an imposing former church suggest the straight from the hotel cellar, that make up the Marais, Paris’s main where the tombs of some of France’s Lido, which beneath glittering chandeliers and Jewish quarter, which is filled with most famous figures – including offers glitzy Asian-inspired decor. bagel shops, upmarket boutiques and Voltaire, Rousseau and Marie Curie cabaret Afterwards, head to Le Bar Botaniste independent galleries. – have been held since the French shows with at the hotel for unique cocktails Revolution. Today, visitors can quintessentially featuring ingredients such as pollen, 10.30: Canal Saint-Martin. Wander glimpse them before climbing up the French three- rhubarb and cardamom, inspired north to Canal Saint-Martin, a romantic dome for 360-degree views over the course dinners. by horticultural fan Prince Roland waterway in the trendy (if slightly surrounding neighbourhoods (entry Bonaparte, who lived here. gritty) area of République that draws in is €9 for adults). 72 travelweekly.co.uk 5 July 2018 DESTINATIONS PARIS ITALY & FRANCE 16.00: Jardin du Luxembourg. Stroll Just round the corner from here is neighbourhood draws in a young, five minutes west and you’ll find Jardin Montparnasse Cemetery, home to the cool crowd with a plethora of food du Luxembourg, one of Paris’s most burial places of French icons including spots – try L’Ecailler du Bistrot for SampLE beautiful parks thanks to its opulent philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and poet exceptional seafood or Café Divan for PRODUCT palace and lush greenery. Especially Charles Baudelaire. casual French classics. If you still have striking is the Medici Fountain, a energy, head to one of the cocktail glistening mirror pool of water framed 21.00: Bastille.
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