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    Insight Guides Experience Paris (Travel Guide eBook)
    Insight Guides Experience Paris (Travel Guide eBook)
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    Insight Guides Experience Paris (Travel Guide eBook)

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    Whatever you're in the mood for, Paris offers a wealth of things to do, all against the backdrop of romantic bridges, the iconic Eiffel Tower, world-class museums and superb gastronomy. Be inspired to visit by the new Insight Guide Experience Paris, a beautifully-packaged full-colour guide to the City of Light.
    Inside Insight Guide Experience Paris:
    A brand-new series covering all the very best experiences on offer.
    Stunning, colourful photography brings this beautiful city and its people to life.
    Local expert authors guide you to authentic Paris experiences and fresh discoveries.
    A dip-in "In the mood for..." section suggests the best places to go for fine dining, great shopping and family fun, amongst others.
    The neighbourhoods sections contain our selection what to see and do from an insider's perspective, from seeking out the new avant-garde street art to bar-hopping around the most fashionable spots in the Marais or Oberkampf districts.
    Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and our Essentials A-Z section give you all the practical information you need for planning a memorable trip.
    About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

    'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInsight Guides
    Release dateAug 5, 2016
    ISBN9781786715876
    Insight Guides Experience Paris (Travel Guide eBook)
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      Insight Guides Experience Paris (Travel Guide eBook) - Insight Guides

      How To Use This E-Book

      This Experience guide has been produced by the editors of Insight Guides, whose books have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970. With top-quality photography and authoritative recommendations, these highly visual guidebooks are designed to appeal to well-informed, sophisticated travellers looking for fresh insights into their chosen destination.

      In the Mood For…

      The In the Mood for… section is filled with suggestions, all grouped by mood, whether you’re seeking the best place for lunch or where to get the finest views across the city. Each individual suggestion is cross-referenced to the main selection of recommendations, where they are given full coverage.

      Neighbourhoods

      Every guide offers a collection of over 100 ideas for a memorable stay in a city, organised by neighbourhood, compiled by writers who know the city inside out. Travellers can browse a city area and find inspiration, with plenty of secret gems in the mix, backed up by clear mapping and a wealth of practical information.

      Getting around the e-book

      In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

      Maps

      All key attractions and sights mentioned in the text are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

      Images

      You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of the destination. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

      About Insight Guides

      Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

      Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

      © 2016 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

      Table of Contents

      Paris Overview

      In the Mood for…

      ... gastronomy

      ... romance

      ... retail therapy

      ... observing Parisians

      ... a view

      ... family fun

      ... fine art

      ... multicultural Paris

      ... outdoor lazing

      ... historic journeys

      ... literary inspiration

      ... a night out

      ... modern architecture

      ... village life

      ... science and technology

      ... Parisian chic

      Neighbourhoods

      The Islands and the Marais

      Eyeball the medieval gargoyles at Notre-Dame

      Read stained-glass stories at the Sainte-Chapelle

      Feel the fear in the cells of the condemned at the Conciergerie, Marie-Antoinette’s last dwelling place

      Pay tribute to the past in the two crypts on Ile de la Cité

      Stroll along a 17th-century high street on secluded Ile St-Louis

      Discover sculptures and colonnades in the grand courtyards of the Marais

      Sift through time at Paris’s eclectic historical museum, the Musée Carnavalet

      Drop in on Victor Hugo at his very personal apartment on place des Vosges

      Ride the iconic escalators at powerhouse for modern art and architecture the Centre Pompidou

      Track down a bestiary at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

      Choose between cheesecake and falafel in the Jewish Marais

      Browse in the junk shops of Village St-Paul, a labyrinth of tucked-away courtyards

      Gallery hop on rue de Turenne and rue Vieille-du-Temple

      Hang out with the fashionistas in the Haut-Marais

      Lose yourself in electronic soundscapes at digitally daring the Gaîté Lyrique

      Tune into technology at the Musée des Arts et Métiers

      Louvre, Opéra and Grands Boulevards

      Pick a side in the battle of Romantics versus Classicists at the Louvre

      Shop where revolutionaries once plotted in the arcades around Palais-Royal

      Gaze down through decades of interior design at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs

      Surrender your senses to designer scents by Serge Lutens, Francis Kurkdjian and Annick Goutal

      Switch from funfairs to Monet’s waterlilies all in the space of the Tuileries gardens

      Nose out next year’s fashion and lifestyle trends on rue St-Honoré

      Find traces of Paris’s market past at Les Halles

      Bask in romance and splendour at the Palais Garnier

      Explore the network of covered Passages between Palais-Royal and Opéra

      Go behind the screen at the Grand Rex, an Art Deco cinema with an unusual tour

      Worship food and classicism at the Madeleine: luxury delis and a showbiz church

      Experience mealtimes in an old workers’ canteen at legendary bouillon Chartier

      Shop ‘til you drop at the grands magasins, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps

      Champs-Elysées and Monceau

      Get into the spirit of 1900 at the Grand Palais, Petit Palais and Pont Alexandre III

      Window shop on avenue Montaigne and Faubourg-St-Honoré

      Dine with the powerbrokers at ministerial favourites Laurent and Lasserre

      Have tea with Tiepolo at the Musée Jacquemart-André

      See a late night art show at the Palais de Tokyo

      Go on a mini tour of France at the Cité de l’Architecture

      Find reasons to celebrate on the Champs-Elysées, laid out as Napoleon’s triumphal way

      Mix with the privileged beau monde at Parc Monceau

      Atone for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette at the Chapelle Expiatoire

      Find your inner zen and a serene Japanese garden at the Musée Guimet and Panthéon Bouddhique

      Enjoy being pampered like a queen at the luxury George V spa

      Montmartre and Pigalle

      Walk through walls in hilly Montmartre and access quiet streets, pretty cottages and an ancient vineyard

      Observe local characters in the bars of Abbesses – also officially home to the best baguette in Paris

      Visit Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau at his home and studio

      Discover La Nouvelle Athènes, including the house where Bizet is said to have penned Carmen

      Empathise with the Romantics: George Sand, Chopin and Ary Scheffer at the Musée de la Vie Romantique

      Admire the pathos at Montmartre cemetery

      Survey the city from the Sacré-Cœur

      Catch a concert, an accordion fest or a cheeky drag show in the old music halls of Pigalle

      Live like a modern bohemian in SoPi

      Discover a Parisian village and a modern eco park at Batignolles

      Follow trendsters to Chez Jeannette and the bars of Faubourg St-Denis

      Visit a merveilleuse in her bathroom at the Petit Hôtel Bourrienne

      Bastille, Belleville and Ménilmontant

      Discover victims of the Terror and an American hero at the Cimetière de Picpus

      Wind down in the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, a park with a fantastical bent, and the Quartier Mouzaïa

      Go for a Sunday stroll along the Canal St-Martin, backdrop to chugging barges and the Hôtel du Nord

      Stock up on fresh produce, oysters and banter at the Marché d’Aligre

      Relish a timeless bistro experience in the vicinity of the Bastille

      Go arty in the heights of Belleville

      Explore the alleyways of Faubourg St-Antoine, where furniture craftsmen alternate with media folk

      Seek out Honoré, Théodore, Edith and a raft of French stars at Père Lachaise cemetery

      Latin Quarter, St-Germain and Seine

      Spot ostriches and dinosaurs at the Jardin des Plantes

      Decipher a medieval allegory at Cluny

      Marvel at the unfurling palm tree column inside Eglise St-Séverin

      Watch tapestry weavers at work at the Manufacture des Gobelins

      Buy from producers at Marché Monge or Maubert and then picnic in a Roman arena

      Pay homage to great men on place du Panthéon

      Follow Orwell and Hemingway to literary haunts on the Mouff’

      Join St-Germain café society

      Pick up the best of modern design in the St-Germain gallery district

      Take a pew in one of the iconic green chairs of the Jardin du Luxembourg to watch Parisians at play

      Touch down in Zaha Hadid’s pavilion at the Institut du Monde Arabe

      Go aquatic in the new east with a dip in a floating swimming pool and nautical nightlife to follow

      Invalides and Montparnasse

      View the giants of Impressionism in the setting of a converted railway station at the Musée d’Orsay

      Follow the banks of the Seine for books, antiques and curios

      Feel the might of Napoleon, one-time ruler of half of Europe, and see his tomb at Les Invalides

      Count the figures on the Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin

      Explore non-Western cultures at the Musée du Quai Branly

      Pose for sculptor Maillol on rue de Grenelle, where the Musée Maillol occupies a lovely mansion

      Get right down under the belly of the Iron Lady for the most spine-tingling views

      Dream about cake at the Pâtisserie des Rêves and Hugo & Victor

      Feast with the foodies on rue St-Dominique

      Relive artistic Montparnasse through its classic brasseries

      Descend 130 steps under Paris to its skeletal foundations: the macabre world of the Catacombes

      Dredge under the capital for an insight into its inner workings: the labyrinthine Paris sewers

      Be a fly on the wall in an early 20th-century artist’s studio in Montparnasse

      Beyond the Centre

      Marvel at the world’s largest collection of Monets then check out Paris’s latest contemporary art centre

      Stand in the home of Modernity: avant-garde icons by Le Corbusier in Auteuil

      Get on the nature trail along La Petite Ceinture, a green belt along the tracks of a disused railway

      Attend an open studio or shop for organic goodies at municipal undertaker’s turned art space the 104

      Chill out in villagey Charonne

      Learn about satellites at La Villette: a day at the Cité des Sciences, Philharmonie 2 and modern park

      Discover global Paris at the Cité de l’Immigration

      Bring gifts to Buddha in the 13th arrondissement, Chinatown

      Go on a treasure hunt at the Puces de St-Ouen, Paris’s biggest flea market

      Pay homage to man’s best friend – and Kiki the monkey – at the Cimetière des Chiens

      Frequent the royals at the Basilique St-Denis

      Picnic in the Domaine de St-Cloud with superb views of Paris across the Seine

      Climb a medieval skyscraper in Vincennes, then lie back to the sound of music in the park

      Essentials

      A

      Arrival

      By Air

      By Train

      By Car

      By Coach

      C

      Climate

      Crime and Safety

      D

      Disabled Travellers

      Driving

      E

      Electricity

      Embassies and Consulates

      Emergency numbers

      G

      Gay and Lesbian

      H

      Health

      Pharmacies

      I

      Internet

      L

      Lost Property

      M

      Maps

      Money

      Museums and Monuments

      N

      Newspapers and Magazines

      P

      Post and Stamps

      Public Holidays (jours fériés)

      Public Transport

      Metro and RER

      Buses and Trams

      Tickets

      Vélib

      Taxis

      R

      Restaurants

      S

      Smoking

      T

      Telephones

      Time Zones

      Tourist Information

      V

      Visas

      Paris Overview

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      Capital of romance, of fashion, of food, of intellectuals and philosophers, famed for its historic buildings and monuments and for that indefinable je ne sais quoi that makes up French chic, Paris is a city that likes to live up to its myths; but it is also a modern working city, of financial institutions, of scientific discoveries and learned research institutes.

      Don’t be fooled into thinking of Paris as a museum. Paris has always modernised, over the centuries expanding in concentric circles outwards from the Ile de la Cité, and has never been afraid to drop in radical new monuments or reinvent old ones. On the one hand you can find Roman baths sticking up in the middle of a Gothic mansion, on the other the glass pyramid at the Louvre and a futuristic ship designed by Frank Gehry that has just ‘sailed’ into the Bois de Boulogne. Two of the most recent cultural venues occupy both a converted theatre and a covered market, new parks have been created around the city’s edges, and an entire new district is taking root above old railway sidings around the new Bibliothèque Nationale, along the Seine.

      If there is one recommended requisite to making the most of the city, it is curiosity. This is a place where you come to admire the grand facades and imperious vistas, the world-renowned museums and glorious churches – but must also be everready to peer through carriage doorways or wander down passageways to discover the hidden gardens, concealed houses and workshops that make up the private, intimate Paris behind

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