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Pocket Paris 6 Preview Contents Plan Your Trip Welcome to Paris ................4 Top Sights ............................6 Eating .................................10 Drinking & Nightlife ..........12 Shopping ............................14 Museums ...........................16 Architecture ......................18 History .............................. 20 Parks & Gardens ............................. 22 Riverside Activities ........................... 23 Tours .................................. 24 Cooking & Wine-Tasting Courses ..... 25 For Kids ............................. 26 LGBT+ .................................27 Four Perfect Days ............28 Need to Know ...................30 Paris Neighbourhoods .... 32 Arc de Triomphe (p54) MISCELLANEOUSTOCK/ALAMY © 00--contents-pk-par6.inddcontents-pk-par6.indd 2 227/08/20187/08/2018 99:40:14:40:14 AM 3 Explore Survival Paris 35 Guide 203 Eiffel Tower & Before You Go ................204 Les Invalides ......................37 Arriving in Paris .............205 Arc de Triomphe & Getting Around ..............208 the Champs-Élysées ....... 53 Essential Information ... 210 Louvre, Tuileries & Opéra ..................................67 Language .........................215 Sacré-Cœur & Montmartre ...................... 93 Centre Pompidou & Special Features Le Marais ..........................111 Eiffel Tower .......................38 Notre Dame & Musée Rodin .....................40 the Islands .......................135 Arc de Triomphe .............. 54 The Latin Quarter ...........153 Louvre ............................... 68 Musée d’Orsay & St-Germain Sacré-Cœur ...................... 94 des Prés ...........................175 Centre Pompidou ........... 112 Notre Dame .................... 136 Worth a Trip Musée d’Orsay ................176 Père Lachaise ..................132 Jardin du Luxembourg ...178 Versailles .........................198 00--contents-pk-par6.inddcontents-pk-par6.indd 3 227/08/20187/08/2018 99:40:14:40:14 AM Welcome to Paris NamedNamed forfor itsits lealeadingding rroleole in the AgeAge ofof Enlightenment,Enlightenment, la vilvillele lumière (the(the CityCity of LightLight)) iiss ffamedamed for its monument-limonument-linedned bouleboulevards,vards treasure-packedtreasure-packed museums, classic bistros and hautehaute coucoutureture (high fashion) houses. Today they’re enhanced by a new wave of multimedia galleries, design shops and tech start-ups that are reasserting Paris’ position as a visionary global city. 01--welcome-to-pk-par6.inddwelcome-to-pk-par6.indd 4 117/08/20187/08/2018 99:41:24:41:24 AM Notre Dame (p136) STOCKBRUNET/SHUTTERSTOCK © 01--welcome-to-pk-par6.inddwelcome-to-pk-par6.indd 5 117/08/20187/08/2018 99:41:29:41:29 AM 6 Top Sights THITIPHAN PAKSEESUWAN/SHUTTERSTOCK © PAKSEESUWAN/SHUTTERSTOCK THITIPHAN Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Eiffel Tower Quintessentially Paris. p38 02--top-sights-pk-par6.inddtop-sights-pk-par6.indd 6 117/08/20187/08/2018 99:42:35:42:35 AM 7 ROMAN BELOGORODOV/SHUTTERSTOCK © BELOGORODOV/SHUTTERSTOCK ROMAN Musée Rodin Museum with a sculpture-studded garden. p40 Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Arc de Triomphe A monument to past glories. p54 BENNY MARTY/SHUTTERSTOCK © MARTY/SHUTTERSTOCK BENNY 02--top-sights-pk-par6.inddtop-sights-pk-par6.indd 7 117/08/20187/08/2018 99:42:37:42:37 AM 8 Louvre The mother of all museums. p68 PAWEL LIBERA/GETTY IMAGES © IMAGES LIBERA/GETTY PAWEL Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights LEFT: NATTEE CHALERMTIRAGOOL/SHUTTERSTOCK ©; RIGHT: SAILORR/SHUTTERSTOCK © SAILORR/SHUTTERSTOCK RIGHT: ©; CHALERMTIRAGOOL/SHUTTERSTOCK NATTEE LEFT: Sacré-Cœur Centre Pompidou Sacré-Cœur’s dove-white domes Europe’s largest collection of crown Montmartre. p94 modern art. p112 02--top-sights-pk-par6.inddtop-sights-pk-par6.indd 8 117/08/20187/08/2018 99:42:38:42:38 AM 9 Notre Dame Jardin du Luxembourg French Gothic masterpiece. Playground of Paris. p178 p136 LEFT: BADAHOS/SHUTTERSTOCK ©; RIGHT: JULIJA OGRODOWSKI/SHUTTERSTOCK © OGRODOWSKI/SHUTTERSTOCK JULIJA RIGHT: ©; BADAHOS/SHUTTERSTOCK LEFT: © MANIQUIZ/SHUTTERSTOCK SALVADOR Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Musée d’Orsay Art in an upcycled train station. p176 02--top-sights-pk-par6.inddtop-sights-pk-par6.indd 9 117/08/20187/08/2018 99:42:39:42:39 AM.
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