🇫🇷☕ Paris overview tour with a German perspective 🇫🇷

A short introduction to the most important monuments along the Seine with a German student who came to Paris seven years ago at the age of 19 and who has already worked for the German Embassy and ZDF.

Our tour begins at the Fontaine Saint-Michel in the Latin Quarter, a lively, student-friendly, intellectual place. German poets such as Heine and Rilke once wandered here.

We stroll through narrow streets to the Île de la Cité. In front of Notre-Dame Cathedral, we talk about Gothic architecture and what it was really like when the cathedral burned.

We enjoy the view of the Seine across the Pont Neuf before seeing the splendor of the Middle Ages at the Palais de Justice and the Sainte-Chapelle .

At the Louvre and Palais Royal we encounter kings, revolutionaries and the art history of Europe.

We walk through the Tuileries Gardens to the Place de la Concorde , once the scene of revolution and the guillotine, today a center of republican symbolism with a view of the Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe.

Crossing the golden Pont Alexandre III we finally reach the Grand Palais , the highlight of the Belle Époque and the World Exhibition of 1900.

And because you can't leave Paris without enjoying it, we'll end the morning tour with a coffee in the light-filled café of the Petit Palais and the evening tour in the modern Palais de Tokyo for contemporary art.

From here you have the choice: a stroll to the Arc de Triomphe, a visit to the Eiffel Tower or a detour to the Museum of Modern Art.

On the way we open a small window into German-French history : from the Napoleonic Wars and the World Wars to the reconciliation with Adenauer and de Gaulle.

We talk about differences in mentality and similarities in cuisine, culture and politics .