FranceÎle-de-France
Paris
Boulevards, museums, and long café hours
About Paris
Paris rewards slow wandering. Beyond the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, the city lives in its neighbourhoods: morning markets on Rue Cler and Aligre, bookshop cafés in the Latin Quarter, wine bars along the Canal Saint-Martin, and evening walks by the Seine as the bridges light up. Each arrondissement has its own rhythm, from Montmartre's village lanes to the Marais's galleries and falafel queues. Use this guide to find the places worth the queue, and the ones that never need one.
Best time: April–June, September–October