The City of Light — capital of art, revolution and romance, where the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame sit within a few square kilometres of some of Europe's finest small museums, hidden libraries and neighbourhood markets. Paris rewards visitors who go past the top five sights.
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Top Attractions in Paris
Notre-Dame Cathedral
The Gothic cathedral at the heart of Paris, fully reopened in December 2024 after the devastating 2019 fire and a five-year restoration — free to enter, with the bell towers reopened in September 2025.
Sainte-Chapelle
A jewel-box Gothic chapel on Île de la Cité holding one of the finest surviving sets of 13th-century stained glass anywhere, built by Louis IX to house Christ's Crown of Thorns.
Jardin du Luxembourg
The Left Bank's grandest formal garden, surrounding the Luxembourg Palace (now the French Senate), with a central pond, a puppet theatre and shaded chestnut alleys popular with students and locals alike.
Bibliothèque nationale de France — Richelieu (Salle Ovale)
A magnificent oval reading room inside France's historic national library building, free to enter and browse — one of the most beautiful public interiors in Paris that most visitors never see.
Louvre Museum
The world's largest and most-visited museum — home to the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and roughly 35,000 other works spread across a former royal palace so big that seeing it all in one visit is genuinely impossible.
Musée d'Orsay
The world's finest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, housed in a converted Belle Époque railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine.
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