Paris Discovery Tour: Island Crowns and Revolutionary Stone
180 min
4.6 km
8 stops
About this tour
Eight narrative stops in five languages (EN/NL/FR/DE/ES) from Gothic island crowns to the obelisk on the Concorde, quizzes that reward close reading, ideal before a late metro from Cité or Saint‑Michel. Self-guided in the StepQuests app: GPS between stops, stories you read on your phone.
Itinerary
8 guided stops on this route
Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame on the Île de la Cité is a Gothic cathedral, mostly built in the late 12th and 13th centuries. Victor Hugo's 1831 novel helped spur the 19th-century…
Sainte-Chapelle
The Sainte-Chapelle is part of the Palais de la Cité. The upper chapel was consecrated on 26 April 1248 for the French crown's Passion relics. Louis IX thus ti…
Conciergerie
The Conciergerie's lower halls are 14th-century Gothic rooms, later used as prison and court. From 1793 the Revolutionary Tribunal sat here during the Terror.…
Shakespeare and Company
Today's Shakespeare and Company borrowed the name of Sylvia Beach's inter-war shop. George Whitman let writers sleep among the books in exchange for help in th…
Panthéon
Building began in 1758; during the Revolution the church became a mausoleum. The crypt holds Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Zola and Marie Curie, among others.
Saint-Sulpice
Saint-Sulpice is a major parish church on the Left Bank. Construction phases stretch from the seventeenth into the eighteenth century in largely French classic…
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GPS-guided walking route
Interactive quizzes at each stop
Fascinating stories and facts
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