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Paris: History and Monuments

Paris: History and Monuments

Paris · France

14 stops
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Paris by pairing grand buildings, ceremonial columns, surviving gates, gardens, and memorials. You will see how royal, civic, cultural, and commemorative places sit alongside one another, from the Musée d'Orsay to the Jardin du Luxembourg. Pause at each stop to look closely at its architecture, setting, and the traces of public life built into the city. The route is rewarding for anyone who wants Paris's past presented through things they can stand beside and see.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Musée d'Orsay

    Musée d'Orsay

    A former railway station turned home to the great art of modern Paris.

  2. Louvre Palace

    Louvre Palace

    A fortress became France’s royal residence, then the world’s most visited museum.

  3. Tuileries Garden

    Tuileries Garden

    A royal garden opened to everyone, then reshaped by Le Nôtre and swept into revolution.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Petit Palais

    Petit Palais

    A 1900 exhibition palace that became Paris’s museum of art, shaped by light, donations, and reinvention.

  6. Vendôme Column

    Vendôme Column

    A Napoleonic victory column whose bronze history is as turbulent as the emperor's.

  7. Palais Garnier

    Palais Garnier

    A theatre born from an assassination attempt, an imperial ambition, and Charles Garnier’s audacious design.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 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.