On Foot Guides : Paris Walks

by Fiona Duncan and Leonie Glass

• ISBN13: 9780762712335
• ISBN10: 0762712333
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Duncan-Petersen

Summary

Explore Paris's most interesting neighborhoods with the help of this innovative guide, filled with full-color, aerial-view, three-dimensional maps and color photographs. The informative, lively text provides background information and recommends places to stop and shop, eat, drink, and sightsee.

Table of Contents

Exploring Paris on foot	6	(11)
How to use this book	8	(1)
Location map	8	(2)
When to use this book	10	(2)
Getting around	12	(3)
Tourist information	15	(2)
Introducing Paris on foot	17	(110)
The Walks:
Arts and Tarts: Montmartre	27	(8)
Scholars and Rebels: The Latin Quarter	35	(8)
Left Bank Impressions: St Germain-des-Pres to Musee d'Orsay	43	(8)
Shamelessly Chic: St Germain and Luxembourg	51	(8)
Secret Gardens and Great Mansions: To Les Invalides	59	(12)
Grand Parade: The Louvre to the Arc de Triomphe	71	(8)
Art and a Park: From the Champs-Elysees to Parc de Monceau	79	(8)
Putting on the Ritz: Around the Grands Boulevards	87	(8)
Commerce and Culture: From the Bourse to the Opera	95	(8)
From the Sublime to the Surreal: Palais Royal to Beaubourg	103	(8)
Nobility Regained: The Marais	111	(8)
Storming the Galleries: Village St Paul and Bastille	119	(8)
Island Hopping: Ile St Louis and Ile de la Cite	127