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Seine Riverbanks and Historic Bridges

Seine Riverbanks and Historic Bridges

Paris · France

7 stops
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow the Seine through Paris on a walk focused on historic bridges and the changing views they create along the riverbanks. Pause at each crossing to compare its setting, structure, and perspective over the water. Finish at the Tuileries Garden, where the riverside route opens into a spacious garden landscape. This is an easy way to experience the Seine through a connected sequence of crossings rather than a single viewpoint.

The walk

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

  1. Pont Marie

    Pont Marie

    A seventeenth-century bridge shaped by floods, vanished houses, and one persistent urban dream.

  2. Tournelle Bridge

    Tournelle Bridge

    A deliberately uneven bridge, rebuilt after the flood of 1910, watched over by Saint Geneviève.

  3. Pont de l'Archevêché

    Pont de l'Archevêché

    Paris’s narrowest road bridge, built in eighteen twenty-eight beside Île de la Cité.

  4. 1 more stop on this walk, in the app
  5. Pont au Change

    Pont au Change

    A working bridge whose name preserves the medieval money changers who once filled it.

  6. Pont Neuf

    Pont Neuf

    Paris’s oldest surviving bridge began as a radical idea: a bridge without houses.

  7. Pont des Arts

    Pont des Arts

    A pedestrian bridge where Napoleon’s first Parisian metal crossing met art, literature, and the love-lock disaster.

  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.