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CORRECTIONS ARE THE USEFUL ONES
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Corrections first: what has changed since the page was written
What is worth pointing out
Corrections, above everything. A Métro line is extended, a museum changes its entrance or its booking rules, a monument closes a staircase for works. If you have just been and something here did not match, that is worth more than any amount of desk research.
Especially useful: anything about arriving and moving around, such as the airport trains, the ticket and pass rules on the Métro and the RER, and the booking rules at the Louvre, the Sainte-Chapelle, the Palais Garnier and Versailles, which are the parts of this guide most likely to go stale.
What this is not for
It is not a booking service. This site sells nothing and books nothing, and cannot get you a room, a table or a ticket; those are booked with the hotels, restaurants and monuments themselves.
It cannot tell you what something costs or when it opens: no price or opening time appears anywhere on this site, because the monument or the operator is the only source that is right on the day. In an emergency anywhere in France, as across nearly all of the European Union, call 112.
The neighborhoods
If a page describes a place, a street or a piece of the city's history in a way that is wrong or unfair, that matters here too, and it will be corrected. This guide does not label any neighborhood as good or bad, because such labels are rarely accurate and never useful.
Photographs
Every photograph on this site is credited beside it, and every credit links to the file's own page on Wikimedia Commons, where its author, its license and its history are recorded.
Photographs are replaced when a better or more recent one of the same place turns up, and captions are corrected when they describe the frame wrongly.
Where to next
Three ways on
- Two airports and six great stationsGetting HereCharles de Gaulle to the northeast, Orly to the south, and six main-line stations — which to use, and how each reaches the center.Open the page →
- The summit, the museums and the curtainBooking AheadWhat sells out: the tower's summit, timed entry at the great museums, the Opéra and the Sainte-Chapelle — and what never needs a ticket.Open the page →
- Thirty-seven bridges and two islandsThe SeineThe river that made the city: the banks listed as a World Heritage Site, the islands, the quays, the bookstalls and the bridges from the Pont Neuf to the Pont Alexandre III.Open the page →
