🇫🇷 Paris

📍 About Paris

The City of Light: Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre-Dame, croissants, wine, and the world's most famous romance.

🗺️ What to do & see in Paris

• ✅Stroll through Montmartre at dawn, when the neighborhood smells of freshly baked bread and only artists are setting up their easels. The Sacré-Cœur basilica seems to float above the fog, and in Place du Tertre, there are no tourists, only painters offering you a portrait for 20 euros (negotiate to 10).
• ✅Have a coffee at Les Deux Magots, the café where Sartre and Hemingway used to argue over who could drink more. Order a café crème and sit on the terrace: you'll see Parisians rushing by and tourists lost with maps in hand. It's not cheap, but you're paying for the show.
• ✅Get lost in the covered galleries of the Passage des Panoramas. They're like time tunnels: antique stamp shops, restaurants with marble tables, and a smell of humidity that transports you to 19th-century Paris. Buy a rare stamp or a pastry at Stohrer, the city's oldest pastry shop (since 1730).
• ✅Alternative: Attend a concert at the Sainte-Chapelle. The light filtering through the stained glass will leave you speechless, but the live classical music (usually at 8 pm) turns the place into something supernatural. Buy your ticket in advance: only 200 people can fit, and they sell out quickly.
• ✅Alternative: Eat at a 'bistrot de quartier' in the 11th arrondissement. Look for places like Le Chardenoux or Septime, where the menus change every day and the waiters treat you like you're their cousin. Order the dish of the day and a house wine: you won't regret it. Tourists go to the restaurants near the Eiffel Tower; you go where the locals eat.
• ✅Alternative: Have a wine at a 'cave à vin' on Rue de la Roquette. They're dark cellars where Parisians buy bottles to take home, but many have tables to taste wines. Order a Burgundy and a cheese plate: the owner will explain why that wine smells of strawberries and wet earth. If you're lucky, there'll be a cat sleeping among the bottles.

🏛️ Must-see attractions in Paris

• ⭐Eiffel Tower
• ⭐Louvre
• ⭐Notre-Dame
• ⭐Canal Saint-Martin
• ⭐Père Lachaise

💡 Travel tips for Paris

• 💡Parisians don't have croissants for breakfast every day: tourists do. If you want to eat like a local, order a coffee and a 'tartine' (bread with butter and jam) at any bar. Croissants are for special occasions or for when you wake up late on a Sunday.
• 💡The Paris metro is efficient, but avoid lines 1 and 13 during rush hour: they're so crowded that Parisians complain (and that's saying a lot). If you're going to Montmartre, don't take the funicular: it's 250 steps, but the view from the top is worth every drop of sweat.
• 💡If you want to buy wine, go to a 'cave' instead of a supermarket. The owners will recommend incredible bottles for less than 10 euros. Ask for a 'vin de soif' (wine for drinking without pretensions) and take it to a park. Parisians do it all the time.
• 💡Don't buy water on the terraces of the Champs-Élysées: they'll charge you 8 euros for a bottle. Go into any 'tabac' (tobacco shop) and ask for a 'bouteille d'eau plate' (still water). It'll cost 1 euro, and nobody will look at you funny for drinking it on the street.