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4 Days in Paris

Four days in Paris along the Seine: the Marais and Bastille to settle in, a full day for the Louvre and the Tuileries with an evening view of the Eiffel Tower, the Left Bank from the Orsay to Rue Mouffetard, and finally Montmartre before the journey home.

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The plan, day by day

Day 1Settling into the Marais
1. Arrival in Paris
2. 12:00–12:45
  Hotel check-in
  The Marais, between Rue de Bretagne and Bastille, is easy to explore on foot, lively in the evening and centrally placed on metro lines 1 and 8 for all four days.
3. 14:00–15:00
  Place des Vosges
  The oldest planned square in Paris: 36 identical brick houses around a lawn with four fountains, galleries beneath the arcades and Victor Hugo's home at number 6.
4. 15:15–16:15
  Rue des Rosiers
  The main street of the Jewish quarter, with falafel shops, kosher bakeries and bookshops, interspersed with the façades of old 19th-century workshops.
5. 16:30–17:45
  Île Saint-Louis
  The smaller of the two Seine islands, with a single main street, 17th-century mansions and riverside quays looking onto the back of Notre-Dame.
6. 19:45–21:15
  Evening: Rue de Lappe
  A short cobbled lane behind Bastille lined with bars, old dance halls and little bistros — the evening here really gets going around nine.
Day 2Louvre, Tuileries and the Seine
1. 09:00–12:00
  Musée du Louvre
  From the entrance beneath the glass pyramid, the route takes you through the antiquities wings to the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Mona Lisa and the large French canvases in the Denon wing.
2. 13:30–14:30
  Jardin des Tuileries
  Le Nôtre's Baroque garden between the Louvre and Concorde, with round ponds, metal chairs you can move around and Rodin bronzes along the avenues.
3. 14:45–16:00
  Musée de l'Orangerie
  Two daylit oval rooms where Monet's eight Water Lilies panoramas wrap around the walls; downstairs, the Walter-Guillaume collection with Cézanne and Soutine.
4. 16:15–16:45
  Place de la Concorde
  The city's largest square, with the Luxor Obelisk at its centre; from here your eye runs straight up the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe.
5. 17:00–17:45
  Pont Alexandre III
  The most ornate bridge over the Seine, with gilded Pegasus figures on four pylons and candelabra that light up shortly before sunset.
6. 19:45–21:15
  Evening: Champ de Mars
  The lawns south-east of the Eiffel Tower, with the whole tower in view as it sparkles for five minutes on the hour.
Day 3Left Bank — Orsay to the Latin Quarter
1. 09:00–09:45
  Café de Flore
  Sartre and Beauvoir's regular haunt on Boulevard Saint-Germain: leather seats, waiters in black waistcoats and a breakfast that is noticeably cheaper at the counter.
2. 10:00–12:15
  Musée d'Orsay
  In this converted railway terminus, the Impressionists — Monet, Renoir, Degas — hang beneath the great clock, with van Gogh's 1889 self-portrait on the top floor.
3. 13:45–15:00
  Jardin du Luxembourg
  The Senate's garden, with the large pond where children push toy sailing boats, the shady Medici Fountain and hundreds of green chairs on the gravel.
4. 15:15–16:15
  Panthéon
  A former church, now the resting place of Voltaire, Curie and Zola; beneath the dome a replica of Foucault's pendulum swings above the marble floor.
5. 16:30–17:15
  Shakespeare and Company
  An English-language bookshop facing the Seine, with narrow stairs, beds between the shelves and a piano on the first floor.
6. 17:30–18:15
  Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
  Since its restoration, the cleaned interior gleams in pale limestone; from the Île de la Cité you can see the new spire above the crossing.
7. 19:45–21:15
  Evening: Rue Mouffetard
  A sloping market street behind the Panthéon where student bars, cheese shops and wine bars stay open late into the night.
Day 4Montmartre and farewell
1. 09:00–10:00
  Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
  The white domed church on the city's highest hill; from the steps in front you look out over all of Paris to the towers of La Défense.
2. 10:15–11:00
  Place du Tertre
  A small square behind the basilica where portrait painters and caricaturists set up their easels — before ten o'clock it is still almost empty.
3. 11:15–12:15
  Musée de Montmartre
  Housed in the oldest buildings on the hill, where Renoir and Suzanne Valadon worked, with restored gardens and a view of the Clos Montmartre vineyard.
4. Departure from Paris