Quick Facts
Setting: Urban
Population (core): 3.4M
Population (metro): 6.7M
Best time to visit: Year-round
Top Sights
Vincennes Woods
The Bois de Vincennes, a vast 995-hectare park in Paris's 12th arrondissement, offers biking and hiking trails, lakes, a botanical garden, and a zoo. Once a royal hunting ground, it became a public park in the 18th century and is larger than New York's Central Park and London's Richmond Park.
FREE
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Bercy Village
FREE
Place de la Bastille
The July Column rises above this iconic square's bars & cafes, former site of the Bastille prison.
FREE
Coulée Verte René-Dumont
Idyllic, leafy footpath running along a disused railway line from Bastille to the Bois de Vincennes.
FREE
Parc de Bercy
City park with mature trees, a vineyard & an orangery, plus a duck pond & 3 old wine warehouses.
FREE
Palais de la Porte Dorée
Aquatic life including crocodiles, sharks and electric fish, kept in a 1930s exhibition hall.
€16.0
/ Adult
Cinémathèque Française
Well-known organization in a Frank Gehry–designed building with a museum & film screenings.
€7.0
/ Adult
サン・マルタン運河
FREE
Porte Saint-Denis
FREE
Picpus Cemetery
€2.0
/ Adult
Edith Piaf Museum
Appointment-only Edith Piaf museum in her former apartment, with clothes, photos & belongings.
€10.0
/ Adult
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