Paris in 1, 2 and 3 days: walking itineraries

Make time for the places you actually want to see.

Start with the plan that fits your trip. Below each itinerary, explore the linked walks and check their distances, stops and starting points.

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These plans leave time for meals and an interior visit. Listen at the outdoor points on each route; arrange interior visits separately.

1 day
Begin with The Île de la Cité: from the Pont Neuf to Notre-Dame Free, then Notre-Dame and the Île Saint-Louis, between neighbouring islands. Avoid adding a jump to the far side of Paris.
2 days
Day 1: follow the previous plan. Day 2: The Jewish Marais and its Mansions: from Saint-Gervais to Carnavalet and From Saint-Paul to the Bastille by the Place des Vosges, through neighbouring parts of the Marais.
3 days
Days 1 and 2: follow the previous plans. Day 3: The Louvre and Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois and The Palais-Royal and the Place des Victoires. Leave a separate block if you want to visit the museum.

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The Île de la Cité: from the Pont Neuf to Notre-Dame

Free walk

1.28 km · 11 stops · 47 min

The Île de la Cité: from the Pont Neuf to Notre-Dame

You start at the tip of the island, where one March evening in 1314 the last master of the Templars was burnt at the stake, and you follow his day backwards to the square in front of Notre-Dame, where his sentence was read that morning.

1.64 km · 11 stops · 54 min

The Louvre and Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois

You start by looking towards the Tuileries, the palace Catherine de' Medici began beside some tile works, and which ended in flames in 1871.

1.61 km · 13 stops · 54 min

The Jewish Marais and its Mansions: from Saint-Gervais to Carnavalet

You start beneath a tree where rents were paid in the Middle Ages, meet the Couperins, the family of musicians who handed the organ of Saint-Gervais down from one to the next, and stop at a church hit by a shell on Good Friday 1918.

1.67 km · 12 stops · 56 min

Notre-Dame and the Île Saint-Louis

You start by looking up: the monsters on the towers have a date, and it's nineteenth-century.

1.33 km · 11 stops · 50 min

The Palais-Royal and the Place des Victoires

You start in the Place des Victoires, the square a marshal paid for out of his own pocket to the greater glory of Louis XIV, with lanterns lit all night, and which the Revolution left with a near-naked general hidden behind scaffolding.

1.48 km · 13 stops · 54 min

From Saint-Paul to the Bastille by the Place des Vosges

On the Rue Saint-Paul there was once a cemetery where, in 1703, a prisoner nobody had ever seen without his mask was buried under a false name.

Paris, before you go

Paris works best a neighbourhood at a time. Combine a walk, a pause and another look: the distances on the map can be deceptive.

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Paris in 1, 2 and 3 days: walking itineraries

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3 days

The walks in your plan

The Île de la Cité: from the Pont Neuf to Notre-Dame

The Louvre and Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois

The Jewish Marais and its Mansions: from Saint-Gervais to Carnavalet

Notre-Dame and the Île Saint-Louis

The Palais-Royal and the Place des Victoires

From Saint-Paul to the Bastille by the Place des Vosges

Paris, before you go

Your first city,on Podtour.

Your first city,on Podtour.

Your first city,
on Podtour.

Your first city,
on Podtour.