Walks
Each walk follows the shortest path on foot between its stops, computed on the streets, passages and steps mapped by OpenStreetMap. Times assume a steady 4.5 km/h, without stops.
5 stops · 2.1 km · about 28 min
The covered passages
From a duke’s medieval tower to the glass-roofed arcades of the 1820s and 1840s, mostly under cover from the rain.
7 stops · 4.6 km · about 62 min
Medieval Paris, from the Marais to Lutetia
From Flamel’s house of 1407 across the islands to the Roman arena: the oldest Paris, piece by surviving piece.
4 stops · 1.9 km · about 26 min
From the Nouvelle Athènes up to Montmartre
Two painters’ houses below the hill, then a steady climb up the Butte to Renoir’s garden and the Montmartre vineyard.
5 stops · 3.1 km · about 41 min
The Left Bank, from the river to the Faubourg Saint-Germain
From the tip of the Cité to Mazarin’s library, a revolutionary passage, Delacroix’s garden studio and Bouchardon’s fountain.
5 stops · 4.5 km · about 60 min
The Marais and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine
From eighteenth-century treasures and Hugo’s apartment, through the craftsmen’s faubourg and along a railway garden, to Picpus.
3 stops · 4.2 km · about 57 min
Sculptors’ studios and the meridian
Bourdelle’s studios, Louis XIV’s observatory and a hamlet of flower-named lanes: a long walk south across ordinary city streets.
Plan your own walk
Tick the places you want to see. The planner puts them in the shortest walking order it can find, using distances computed on the street and footpath network.
Choose at least two places.