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Île de la Cité, Medieval Left Bank, Louvre and Marais

Île de la Cité, Medieval Left Bank, Louvre and Marais

Paris · France

7 stops
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through four layers of Paris, from the Île de la Cité to the medieval Left Bank, then onward toward the Louvre and the Marais. You will pause in a riverside park, meet Louis XIV, and move through civic squares and welcoming neighbourhood spaces. The route is worth taking for the way these stops connect grand history with places where you can slow down and look around.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.

  1. Rue de Lutèce

    Rue de Lutèce

    A pedestrian street where Paris’s Roman name meets royal planning and nineteenth-century rebuilding.

  2. Square du Vert Galant

    Square du Vert Galant

    A riverside park built on former islands, with royal ambition, executions, floods, and a very green king.

  3. Louis XIV

    Louis XIV

    Louis XIV, an attraction in Paris associated with Gian Lorenzo Bernini

  4. 1 more stop on this walk, in the app
  5. Palais-Royal

    Palais-Royal

    A cardinal’s palace became a royal home, a regency headquarters, and the government offices around a public garden.

  6. Hôtel de Ville

    Hôtel de Ville

    A town hall rebuilt after fire, where Parisian power repeatedly changed hands.

  7. Village Saint-Paul

    Village Saint-Paul

    A Paris “village” rebuilt from an overcrowded block into six connected courtyards.

  8. Stop 7

  9. 1 more stop in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

1 more stop in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 7 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.