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11 GREAT WALKING TOURS Through the Most Colorful Neighborhoods in Paris Follow Frommer’s for an up-close and personal look at Paris. Discover the atmospheric and the opulent, the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the avant-garde–everything that makes Paris unique. LET FROMMER’S TAKE YOU TO: The birthplace of Paris, the Ile de la Cit?, home to two of the world’s most incredible churches The bohemian Latin Quarter, with vestiges of a Roman bath among caf?-lined streets Sacr?-Coeur and the beautiful Montmartre, the village on a hill that inspired van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec St.-Germain and Montparnasse, where you can see the hangouts of Picasso, Sartre, and Man Ray With easy-to-use directions and maps–and the best places to take a break along the way
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MEMORABLE WALKS IN
PARIS 6th Edition Haas Mroue
MEMORABLE WALKS IN
PARIS 6th Edition Haas Mroue
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Contents List of Maps
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Introducing the City of Light
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The Walking Tours Ancient & Medieval Paris 1 The Ile de la Cité 2 The Latin Quarter Part I The Northern Latin Quarter Part II The Southern Latin Quarter Royal Paris 3 The Marais Part I The Central Marais Part II The Southern Marais & Ile St-Louis 4 The Faubourg St-Germain Artistic & Literary Paris 5 The St-Germain Quarter & Montparnasse Part I From St-Germain-des-Prés to l’Odéon Part II From l’Odéon to Montparnasse 6 Montmartre Part I The Butte Part II The Boulevards 7 The Père-Lachaise Cemetery
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Index
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LIST OF MAPS The Tours at a Glance
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The Walking Tours The Ile de la Cité The Northern Latin Quarter The Southern Latin Quarter The Central Marais The Southern Marais & Ile St-Louis The Faubourg St-Germain From St-Germain-des-Prés to