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What to see in Paris on foot
39 sights worth the detour, all walkable, all offline.
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Paris is a city made for walking. This self-guided guide maps 39 of its sights worth the detour — landmarks, historic sites, viewpoints, museums and galleries and parks and gardens — the places locals point to and the tour buses skip, close enough to string into a single day on foot. Download the Paris pack in Voyage GO before you go and the whole route works offline: no roaming, no dead battery from a live map. Every monument, viewpoint and park you pass quietly fills your travel passport.
Landmarks14
- 1Eiffel TowerThe 300-metre iron tower Parisian artists petitioned against before it was even finished.
- 2Notre-Dame de ParisThe spire fell on live TV in April 2019; since December 2024 you can walk back inside.
- 3Champs-ÉlyséesA single 1.9-km straight line runs from the Concorde obelisk to the Arc de Triomphe — Paris's ceremonial spine on the Axe historique.
- 4Arc de TriompheNapoleon ordered it after Austerlitz in 1806; twelve avenues still radiate from the star-shaped square around it.
- 5La DéfenseStand under a 110-meter arch and look back down the axis toward the Louvre.
- 6Stade de FranceFrance beat Brazil 3-0 here to win the 1998 World Cup.
- 7Parc des PrincesThe Tour de France finished here 54 times before PSG fans turned the concrete into a wall of noise.
- 8Élysée PalaceFrance's president actually works and sleeps here — a functioning palace, not a museum.
- 9Centre PompidouA building turned inside-out, its guts of colored pipes and escalators bolted to the outside.
- 10Place de la ConcordeThe guillotine stood here — 1,119 heads fell on this one square.
- 11Sacré-CœurMontmartre's white basilica bleaches whiter with every rain.
- 12Moulin RougeThe red windmill that birthed the modern can-can, still turning over Place Blanche since 1889.
- 13Grand PalaisA cathedral of iron and light, built for the 1900 World's Fair and reopened in 2025 to hold art under its glass sky.
- 14Grande ArcheA hollow 110-metre cube that squares off Paris's grand axis, 4 km past the Arc de Triomphe.
Historic Sites13
- 15Place de la BastilleThe prison that lit a revolution is gone — and the mob that stormed it on 14 July 1789 came for gunpowder, not the seven forgotten men inside.
- 16Père Lachaise CemeteryA million souls rest here, and the neighbors are Chopin, Piaf, Wilde and Jim Morrison.
- 17MontmartreThe 130-meter hill in the 18th where Picasso, Renoir, and Van Gogh once worked, now crowned by the white dome of Sacré-Cœur.
- 18Palais GarnierThe audience was always half the show — a building designed for the act of arriving.
- 19Île de la CitéThe 22.5-hectare island where Paris began — and where every road distance in France is still measured from.
- 20Basilica of Saint-DenisThe building where Gothic architecture was born doubles as the graveyard of nearly every French king.
- 21PanthéonA church that outgrew religion: on and off since 1791, it's where France entombs the people it refuses to forget.
- 22Tuileries PalaceThe clean sightline from the Louvre to the Arc de Triomphe exists only because the palace on this spot burned in 1871 and was scraped away.
- 23The SorbonneOne of the first colleges of the medieval University of Paris, founded 1253 — and where May 1968 boiled over.
- 24Sainte-ChapelleLouis IX built it to house Christ's Crown of Thorns, then wrapped the upper chapel in 15 walls of glass that dissolve the stone.
- 25Luxembourg PalaceA homesick queen built herself a corner of Florence in Paris — later a prison, then a Luftwaffe HQ, and today the French Senate.
- 26Palais-RoyalA cardinal's private palace that sheltered exiled English royalty, concealed a royal affair, and now lets anyone stroll through its garden for free.
- 27Montparnasse CemeteryThe Left Bank has buried its philosophers, artists, and war dead here since 1824 — all 35,000 of them.
Viewpoints1
- 28Montparnasse TowerThe tallest building in Paris proper — and the one place you can see the whole city without it in the way.
Museums & Galleries6
- 29Louvre MuseumThe world's most-visited museum lives inside a 12th-century fortress that became a royal palace.
- 30Musée d'OrsayVan Gogh and Monet hung inside a Beaux-Arts station built for the Paris–Orléans railway.
- 31Venus de MiloThe world's most famous armless woman, and no one actually knows what her hands were doing.
- 32Winged Victory of SamothraceA headless, armless goddess who still looks caught mid-landing in a gale.
- 33Musée des Arts et MétiersA 1794 science-and-industry collection set in the former priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, with early flying machines shown in its old church.
- 34Petit PalaisA Beaux-Arts palace rushed to completion in under three years for a world's fair — and it never left.
Parks & Gardens5
- 35Champ de MarsThe flat green where the world's first hydrogen-filled balloon rose in 1783 and Paris held its first Bastille Day in 1790 — now the lawn everyone crosses to reach the Eiffel Tower.
- 36Jardin du LuxembourgMarie de' Medici built it to echo the Florence of her childhood; Paris made it the city's backyard.
- 37Bois de BoulogneNapoleon III's answer to Hyde Park: 845 hectares of engineered wilderness on Paris's western edge.
- 38Tuileries GardenCatherine de' Medici turned a 13th-century tile-factory district into Paris's grandest public promenade — and it took until 1667 for ordinary people to walk it.
- 39Bois de VincennesThree times the size of Central Park, Napoleon III's park on Paris's eastern edge still has room to lose a whole afternoon.
