Here is a just highlight of things that one should see during your visit to Paris. Consider getting the Paris Museum Pass, a pre-paid entry card that allows entry and line jumping into over 70 museums and monuments around Paris. The Paris Pass is a variant also allowing free metro and public transport travel. Note that most museums and galleries are closed on either Monday or Tuesday.

– Place de la Bastille is a square in Paris, where the Bastille prison stood and later destroyed during the French Revolution.
– Champs-Élysées is a 17th century garden-promenade turned avenue connecting the Concorde and Arc de Triomphe. It is also a major shopping street.
– Place de la Concorde was the site of the infamous guillotine during the French Revolution. It was replaced with an Egyptian obelisk.
– Place Vendôme is famous for its fashionable and deluxe hotels and its jewellers.
– Les Halles was formerly Paris’ central meat and produce market for over a 1000 year and was turned into a shopping centre in 1971.
– Le Marais is a trendy district with large gay and Jewish population.
– Avenue Montaigne is home to luxury brand labels such as Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Dior and Givenchy.
– Montmartre is a historic area on the Butte, home to the Basilica of the Sacré Coeur, and has always had a history with artists.
– Montparnasse is a historic area famous for artist’s studios, music halls, and café life. The lone Tour Montparnasse skyscraper is located there.
– L’Opéra is the area around the Opéra Garnier and department stores such as Printemps and Galeries Lafayette.
– Quartier Latin is a 12th century scholastic centre with the Sorbonne University.
– Faubourg Saint-Honoré is one of Paris’ high-fashion districts, home to Hermès and Christian Lacroix.
– Eiffel Tower, built on the Champ de Mars, is probably the most famous landmarks in the world.
– Père-Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris. See the graves of Molière, Sarah Bernhardt , Georges Bizet, Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, amongst many others.
– Catacombs of Paris is a famous underground ossuary.
– Arc de Triomphe was commissioned by Napoleon I. Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from the First World War.
– La Defense is a modern office-building variant of the Arc de Triomphe.

– Notre Dame Cathedral is an impressive Gothic cathedral that was the inspiration for Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
– Sacré Coeur is perched on top of the highest point in Paris. Behind the church is the artists’ area.
– Sainte Chapelle is stunning on a sunny day, as the highlight of this small chapel are the large stained-glass windows which soar up to near the vaulted ceiling.
– Pantheon is the final resting place for the great heroes of the French Republic.Museums and galleries
– The Louvre is one of the finest museums in the world of art, art-history, and culture, home of the Mona Lisa.
– Musée d’Orsay displays works of the great artists of the 19th century.
– Centre Georges Pompidou houses the museum of modern art.
– Jacquemart-Andre Museum displays a private collection of French, Italian, Dutch masterpieces in a typical 14th century mansion.
– Picasso Museum contains the master’s own collections.
– Rodin Museum shows his personal collection and archives, in a charming hotel and sprawling garden. – Invalides is the museum of arms and armour from the Middle Ages to today.
– Carnavalet is the Museum of Paris history and is noted for its collection of French Revolution artefacts.
– Cluny is Paris’s medieval museum, in a part roman, part medieval building.