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Paris

17 guides
Le Louvre
Paris
FR
Petite et grande histoire du palais du Louvre
800 years of power, intrigue and art within the walls of the world's greatest palace.
Le Marais
Paris
FR
Le Marais, ou l'invention de l'hôtel particulier
Walk in the footsteps of nobles who built Paris's most stunning private mansions.
Palais-Royal
Paris
FREN
Le Palais-Royal entre pouvoir et culture
Richelieu, Louis XIV, Colette, Cocteau — centuries of power and pleasure in one palace.
La Commune de Paris
Paris
FREN
La Commune de Paris
Père Lachaise, Montparnasse, Montmartre — retracing the last battles and burial places of the Paris Commune of 1871.
Montparnasse
Paris
FR
Le Montparnasse des artistes
Picasso, Hemingway, Beauvoir — a century of artistic bohemia in the studios and cafés of Montparnasse.
Saint-Germain
Paris
FR
Saint-Germain, quartier au cœur de la Révolution
Guillotines, Jacobins, Marat's murder — the French Revolution through the streets of Saint-Germain.
Lénine et Trotsky
Paris
FR
Lénine et Trotsky à Paris
Lenin, Trotsky and the Russian revolutionaries who made Paris their base before 1917.
Tour Eiffel
Paris
FR
Champ de Mars et Tour Eiffel
From the Revolution of 1789 to the industrial revolution — the Eiffel Tower as its monument.
Le théâtre
Paris
FR
Le théâtre parisien dans l'histoire
700 years of Parisian theatre, from medieval fair jugglers to the Comédie-Française.
Cafés Rive Gauche
Paris
FR
Les cafés historiques de la Rive Gauche
Philosophy, revolution and art — a long tradition played out in the historic cafés of the Left Bank.
Paris ésotérique
Paris
FR
Paris ésotérique : du Temple virtuel à la Tour abolie
Secret spiritual doctrines hidden in Paris's streets, from the Temple quarter to the Tour Saint-Jacques.
Rousseau
Paris
FR
J.-J. Rousseau, l'homme de la nature à Paris
Follow the philosopher who both loved and loathed Paris through two walks in his footsteps.
Balzac
Paris
FR
Balzac et la « Comédie humaine » à Paris
Discover the Parisian haunts of Balzac and his characters across the Marais and Saint-Germain.
Balzac à Passy
Paris
FR
Balzac « exilé » à Passy (1840–1847)
The house where Balzac fled his creditors — and completed the Human Comedy.
Victor Hugo
Paris
FR
Victor Hugo, un phare dans la ville-lumière
Two walks through the Paris of Les Misérables, seen through Hugo's own eyes.
Miss.Tic
Paris
FR
Miss.Tic, ou la femme libérée
Street art, feminism and the walls of Paris — a walk through the stencilled universe of Miss.Tic.
Founding Fathers
Paris
EN
The American Revolution in Paris
Franklin, Jefferson, Adams in Paris — the Left Bank sites of the American Revolution.

Near Paris

2 guides
Versailles
Versailles
FR
Saveurs et senteurs à la cour de Versailles
Perfumes, gastronomy and the last splendours of the Ancien Régime at the Court of Versailles.
Chatou
Chatou
FR
Promenades à Chatou
Renoir's favourite Seine-side village, where Impressionism came to life on the water.

Rome & Italy

4 guides
Castel Sant'Angelo
Rome
IT
Castel Sant'Angelo
From Hadrian's mausoleum to papal fortress — 2,000 years of Roman history in one monument.
Masques Méditerranéens
Mamoiada, Sardegna
FRDEEN
Le Musée des Masques Méditerranéens
Mamuthones, Issohadores — the ancient carnival masks of Mamoiada and the Mediterranean world.
Musée de la Soie
Abbadia Lariana, Lombardia
IT
Civico Museo Setificio Monti
A 19th-century silk mill brought back to life, with original machinery still running.
Farnese
Farnese, Lazio
IT
Il Borgo di Pinocchio a Farnese
A medieval village in Lazio and its unexpected connection to the story of Pinocchio.

Beyond

1 guide
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
EN
Edinburgh, Cradle of the Scottish Enlightenment
From medieval squalor to Georgian elegance — Edinburgh as the crucible of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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