Along with the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the Louvre is one of the three largest museums in the world.

A complete visit to all of its collections would probably take a very conscientious art lover about a week to complete. So instead of talking here about all the works on display, we have selected its nine most emblematic and famous masterpieces to begin to discover this amazing institution.

This “masterpiece tour” will begin with the discovery of the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace, before moving on to David’s monumental Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon, Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, Géricault’s Raft of the Méduse, Delacroix’s Liberty Guiding the People, the Slaves sculpted by Michelangelo and Coysevox and Coustou’s Marly Horses.

Place: 1st arrondissement
Duration: about 2h30

This walking tour will allow you to explore one of the two existing Parisian villages, the other being the Butte aux Cailles. Montmartre is world-famous because of its Sacré-Cœur, its place du Tertre, the Moulin Rouge and the two boulevards at the foot of its hill: the boulevard de Clichy and the boulevard de Rochechouart.

You will not see any major architectural works on this walk. Instead, you will discover streets and lanes, famous or underrated, where History (with a capital H) and everyday life converge. You will come across many legendary places, such as the Lapin Agile, the Bateau Lavoir, the Moulin de la Galette and the Moulin Rouge. You will also discover a number of famous artists, such as Maurice Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon, Kees Van Dongen and Auguste Renoir, as well as picturesque characters like Lolo de donkey, Aristide Bruant, and even the popular film pixie Amélie Poulain, all of whom have helped make Montmartre what it is.

Place: 18th arrondissement
Duration: about 2h

This walking tour will allow you to explore one of the two existing Parisian villages, the other being the Butte aux Cailles. Montmartre is world-famous because of its Sacré-Cœur, its place du Tertre, the Moulin Rouge and the two boulevards at the foot of its hill: the boulevard de Clichy and the boulevard de Rochechouart.

You will not see any major architectural works on this walk. Instead, you will discover streets and lanes, famous or underrated, where History (with a capital H) and everyday life converge. You will come across many legendary places, such as the Lapin Agile, the Bateau Lavoir, the Moulin de la Galette and the Moulin Rouge. You will also discover a number of famous artists, such as Maurice Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon, Kees Van Dongen and Auguste Renoir, as well as picturesque characters like Lolo de donkey, Aristide Bruant, and even the popular film pixie Amélie Poulain, all of whom have helped make Montmartre what it is.

Place: 18th arrondissement
Duration: about 2h

On this walking tour you will encounter some of the famous people that lived in the Marais between the Renaissance and the Romantic eras: from 16th century architects Pierre Lescot and Jean Goujon to Victor Hugo, without forgetting the Duc de Sully, Madame de Sévigné, the 17th century architect Mansart and the 18th-century playwright Beaumarchais.
You will discover the first Royal Square in France –now called the Place des Vosges – and some of its remarkable mansions, or hôtels particuliers. Left untouched by Baron Haussmann’s ambitious city planning works during the Second Empire, the Marais remains a true catalogue of 300 years of aristocratic architecture.This walk gives you the opportunity to discover some of the most representative sites from the grand era of the Marais – between 1550 and 1650.
At the same time, our itinerary will introduce you to one of the most charming and lively neighborhoods in Paris.

Place: the Marais (4th arrondissement)
Duration: about 1h

On this walking tour you will encounter some of the famous people that lived in the Marais between the Renaissance and the Romantic eras: from 16th century architects Pierre Lescot and Jean Goujon to Victor Hugo, without forgetting the Duc de Sully, Madame de Sévigné, the 17th century architect Mansart and the 18th-century playwright Beaumarchais.
You will discover the first Royal Square in France –now called the Place des Vosges – and some of its remarkable mansions, or hôtels particuliers. Left untouched by Baron Haussmann’s ambitious city planning works during the Second Empire, the Marais remains a true catalogue of 300 years of aristocratic architecture.This walk gives you the opportunity to discover some of the most representative sites from the grand era of the Marais – between 1550 and 1650.
At the same time, our itinerary will introduce you to one of the most charming and lively neighborhoods in Paris.

Place: the Marais (4th arrondissement)
Duration: about 1h

Notre Dame Cathedral seems to be enveloped by an aura of mystery that undoubtedly owes much to Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame and its cast of world-famous characters: Esmeralda, Quasimodo and others. But there is so much more to this monumental cathedral. As the poet Paul Claudel said, “Notre Dame is not just an edifice, it is a person.” And it is true.
We could add that it is a very honorable person, a millenary witness to some of the greatest events in French history. Did you know, for example, that it was at Notre Dame that King Philip the Fair assembled the etats généraux to mark France’s independence from the political power of the Popes in Rome? King after king commissioned additions by the best artisans, turning Notre Dame into a true museum of the evolution of Gothic architecture and sculpture.
Our visit will take us from Romanesque sculptures to the statues of Louis XIII and XIV made by Antoine Coysevox and Guillaume Coustou in the early 18th century.

Place: Ile de la Cite (4th arrondissement)
Duration: about 1h30

Saint Germain-des-Près is one of the liveliest neighborhoods in Paris. To discover it we will wander down its streets, following the adventures of some of its most famous inhabitants, which have included Gérard de Nerval, Georges Sand, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and many more.

Like them, the atmosphere that inhabits its old buildings, courtyards and alleys is sure to charm you.

Place: The Latin Quarter (6th arrondissement)
Duration: about 1h30

Saint Germain-des-Près is one of the liveliest neighborhoods in Paris. To discover it we will wander down its streets, following the adventures of some of its most famous inhabitants, which have included Gérard de Nerval, Georges Sand, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and many more.

Like them, the atmosphere that inhabits its old buildings, courtyards and alleys is sure to charm you.

Place: The Latin Quarter (6th arrondissement)
Duration: about 1h30

When Clovis I, widely considered to be the first King of France, chose Saint Denis as patron saint of the kingdom, he gave this site, where legend has it Saint Denis is buried, an importance it would never lose.

His descendant, Dagobert I, was buried here in 640, and from that day on, the Basilica of Saint Denis became the necropolis of the Kings and Queens of France, up to and including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Our visit will take us to meet some famous characters from the history of France: Charles Martel, Pippin the Younger, Philip IV the Fair – who disbanded the Knights Templar –, Francis I, Catherine de’ Medici, etc.

Given that the artists who engraved or carved the tombs where the leading exponents of their age, we can observe the evolution of the art of sculpture over 1000 years, as well as a sense of what death meant to all these sovereigns.

Finally, the Basilica of Saint Denis – thanks to Abbot Suger – marks the birth of Gothic architecture which was to be adopted in the rest of the Western world.

Place: Saint Denis, on the outskirts of Paris
Duration: about 2h

When Clovis I, widely considered to be the first King of France, chose Saint Denis as patron saint of the kingdom, he gave this site, where legend has it Saint Denis is buried, an importance it would never lose.

His descendant, Dagobert I, was buried here in 640, and from that day on, the Basilica of Saint Denis became the necropolis of the Kings and Queens of France, up to and including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Our visit will take us to meet some famous characters from the history of France: Charles Martel, Pippin the Younger, Philip IV the Fair – who disbanded the Knights Templar –, Francis I, Catherine de’ Medici, etc.

Given that the artists who engraved or carved the tombs where the leading exponents of their age, we can observe the evolution of the art of sculpture over 1000 years, as well as a sense of what death meant to all these sovereigns.

Finally, the Basilica of Saint Denis – thanks to Abbot Suger – marks the birth of Gothic architecture which was to be adopted in the rest of the Western world.

Place: Saint Denis, on the outskirts of Paris
Duration: about 2h

Along with the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the Louvre is one of the three largest museums in the world.

A complete visit to all of its collections would probably take a very conscientious art lover about a week to complete. So instead of talking here about all the works on display, we have selected its nine most emblematic and famous masterpieces to begin to discover this amazing institution.

This “masterpiece tour” will begin with the discovery of the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace, before moving on to David’s monumental Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon, Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, Géricault’s Raft of the Méduse, Delacroix’s Liberty Guiding the People, the Slaves sculpted by Michelangelo and Coysevox and Coustou’s Marly Horses.

Place: 1st arrondissement
Duration: about 2h30

In this walk we will discover the neighborhood around the rue Mouffetard, which lies between the church of Saint-Medard and the place de la Contrescarpe, a picturesque and lively place that used to be known as the village of Saint-Medard.

We won’t find any major architectural treasures here, but instead will come across alleys and streets, some quite unknown, as well as hidden gardens and medieval homes. These places will lead us to talk about the wall built at the end of the 12th century by King Philippe Auguste, as well as various early phases in the evolution of Paris, and the Middle Ages in general.

We will also hear various anecdotes of funny and tragic events that took place in this neighborhood.

Place: 5th arrondissement
Duration: about 1h30

Throughout his life, sculptor Auguste Rodin attempted to reach a fuller expression of the truth of the subject being represented in his sculptures. Our visit will follow his evolution. He began by removing the attributes that habitually characterize people, then choosing to not gloss over physical defects, even amplifying them, and finally going as far as to play with physical proportions, and deforming bodies.

It was no longer a matter of describing or telling, but a way to take the viewer inside the subjects in question. “I understood,” he said, “that around the person represented, it was imperative to imply like a halo of ideas to explain that person, thus making art expand ike mysterious waves.”

It is the “intimate person” that interests Rodin, and he tried to reveal that richness, rather than report on the exterior circumstance of an existence.And with Balzac, he seems to have found was he was seeking. The simplicity we will have before our very eyes at the end of the visit, shows us that Rodin from then on oriented himself towards an art that made less and less reference to the real world.

The works to be commented are: Monument to the Burghers of Calais, The Gates of Hell, a portrait of Rodin’s father, The Man with the Broken Nose, Young Woman with Floral Hatt, The Age of Bronze, The Kiss, Saint John the Baptist, The Cathedral, The Age of Maturity by Camille Claudel, The Thinker , Danaïd, and finally the Bust of Balzac .

Place: 7th arrondissement
Duration: about 2h

Throughout his life, sculptor Auguste Rodin attempted to reach a fuller expression of the truth of the subject being represented in his sculptures. Our visit will follow his evolution. He began by removing the attributes that habitually characterize people, then choosing to not gloss over physical defects, even amplifying them, and finally going as far as to play with physical proportions, and deforming bodies.

It was no longer a matter of describing or telling, but a way to take the viewer inside the subjects in question. “I understood,” he said, “that around the person represented, it was imperative to imply like a halo of ideas to explain that person, thus making art expand ike mysterious waves.”

It is the “intimate person” that interests Rodin, and he tried to reveal that richness, rather than report on the exterior circumstance of an existence.And with Balzac, he seems to have found was he was seeking. The simplicity we will have before our very eyes at the end of the visit, shows us that Rodin from then on oriented himself towards an art that made less and less reference to the real world.

The works to be commented are: Monument to the Burghers of Calais, The Gates of Hell, a portrait of Rodin’s father, The Man with the Broken Nose, Young Woman with Floral Hatt, The Age of Bronze, The Kiss, Saint John the Baptist, The Cathedral, The Age of Maturity by Camille Claudel, The Thinker , Danaïd, and finally the Bust of Balzac .

Place: 7th arrondissement
Duration: about 2h

In this walk we will discover the neighborhood around the rue Mouffetard, which lies between the church of Saint-Medard and the place de la Contrescarpe, a picturesque and lively place that used to be known as the village of Saint-Medard.

We won’t find any major architectural treasures here, but instead will come across alleys and streets, some quite unknown, as well as hidden gardens and medieval homes. These places will lead us to talk about the wall built at the end of the 12th century by King Philippe Auguste, as well as various early phases in the evolution of Paris, and the Middle Ages in general.

We will also hear various anecdotes of funny and tragic events that took place in this neighborhood.

Place: 5th arrondissement
Duration: about 1h30

Notre Dame Cathedral seems to be enveloped by an aura of mystery that undoubtedly owes much to Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame and its cast of world-famous characters: Esmeralda, Quasimodo and others. But there is so much more to this monumental cathedral. As the poet Paul Claudel said, “Notre Dame is not just an edifice, it is a person.” And it is true.
We could add that it is a very honorable person, a millenary witness to some of the greatest events in French history. Did you know, for example, that it was at Notre Dame that King Philip the Fair assembled the etats généraux to mark France’s independence from the political power of the Popes in Rome? King after king commissioned additions by the best artisans, turning Notre Dame into a true museum of the evolution of Gothic architecture and sculpture.
Our visit will take us from Romanesque sculptures to the statues of Louis XIII and XIV made by Antoine Coysevox and Guillaume Coustou in the early 18th century.

Place: Ile de la Cite (4th arrondissement)
Duration: about 1h30