SIGHTSEEING TOURS OF PARIS BY COACH

Paris ½ day (flat fee : 1 to 3 h)
Paris ½ day (4 hours)
The five " royal squares " in Paris
Paris 2000 (modern architecture of the past 15 years)
Itinerary of the Paris Commune (1871)
Paris of the Impressionists
Cosmopolitan Paris (Chinatown, Barbès, Belleville)

Paris journée (short day : 5 to 6 hours)
Paris journée (long day : 6 to 8 hours)
Paris " Révolution "
Paris 2000 (modern architecture + La Défense)
Gardens and parks of Paris (full day)
Medieval Tour (Cluny Museum, NDame, Conciergerie, Ste Chapelle)

WALKING TOURS (2 - 2 h ½).

Montmartre : unknown village and artist colony
Marais Quarter (mansions and aristocratic residences XVIth-XVIIth century.)
Saint-Germain-des-Prés Quarter
Ile de la Cité (with Conciergerie and Notre-Dame)
Latin Quarter (from the Romans to the University)
Palais-Royal - Banque de France Quarter
"Passages" - XIXth century : covered arcades near the Boulevards
Père-Lachaise cemetery
From St Germain l'Auxerrois to the Place de la Concorde
History of Crime to Paris
Judaïsm in Paris : visit to the Jewish quarter, a memorial and a synagogue
Louvre : feudal keep, archaeological remains and architecture
Palais-Royal, the Buren "Columns" and exterior architecture of the Louvre
3 churches : Notre-Dame, St Etienne du Mont, Panthéon
The Catacombs
Panthéon Quarter : rue Mouffetard and Montagne Ste Geneviève
La Villette : XXth century park.
Notre-Dame : 2-hour tour
The Sentier (from Victoires Square to St Denis Gate
The New-Athens (XIX° century artist colony)
Da Vinci Code walking tour : from the Ritz hotel to Saint-Sulpice
Louvre : a Da Vinci Code tour of the museum

THE EVENING

Illuminations (1½-2 hours)
Illuminations + Bateaux-Mouche
Illuminations + Lido or dinner or other cabaret

THE MUSEUMS (2-2h½ HOURS)

Louvre : General tour
Louvre : Egyptian section
Louvre : Italian paintings. (XVth-XVIth century)
Louvre : French paintings. (XVIIth-XVIIIth century)
Louvre : New Richelieu wing. Collections and revamping of the museum
Louvre : Foreign sculptures
Orsay : General tour
Orsay : Pre-Impressionist schools
Orsay : Impressionism
Cluny : Daily life in the Middle Ages
Carnavalet : History of Paris
Carnavalet : History of the Revolution 1789
Picasso Museum
Rodin Museum
Saint-Denis Museum : archeology and history of the "Carmelites"
Rheims : Tau Museum

THE IMPRESSIONISTS

Paris of the Impressionists (stations, boulevards, etc..)
Orsay Museum
Montmartre and the Artists
Full day Monet : ½ day Orsay + Giverny
Full day Sisley : ½ day Orsay + Moret sur Loing
Full day Van Gogh : ½ day Orsay + Auvers sur Oise
Full day Pissarro : ½ day Orsay + Pontoise
Giverny + Auvers
Barbizon + Moret-sur-Loing
Full day School of Honfleur : Honfleur, the Estuary, the "Normandy" bridge, Etretat

ROYAL RESIDENCES IN FRANCE
HISTORY OF CITY-PLANNING IN PARIS

on request.

NEAR PARIS AND FURTHER AFIELD

Versailles ½-day
Malmaison ½-day
Basilica of Saint-Denis : 1st Gothic vault and burial place of the kings of France
Chateau of Breteuil ½-day
Fontainebleau ½-day
Vaux-le-Vicomte ½-day
Chartres cathedral ½-day
Beauvais cathedral (1/2 day)
Giverny (Monet's house) ½-day
Auvers-sur-Oise (Van Gogh's last place of residence) ½-day
Moret-sur-Loing (Sisley's last place) ½-day
Chateau of Chantilly ½-day

Paris ½-day + Versailles ½-day
Versailles + Malmaison
Versailles + Giverny
Versailles + Chartres
Versailles + Fontainebleau
Versailles full day : chateau + French gardens + Trianons and Queen's hamlet
Fontainebleau full day : chateau + forest + Barbizon artist colony
Saint-Denis full day : Basilica and Carmelite Museum
Chartres full day : cathedral and medieval town
Rouen : walking city tour + Giverny : Monet's house
Rouen : walking city tour + Chateau-Gaillard and valley of the Seine river.
Rheims + Epernay and the Champagne country
Rheims : city tour + Museum of Tau (art museum related to the king's coronation in Rheims)

Chateaux of the Loire 1 day : 3 chateaux

 

 

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