Paris Family Challenge: Secret Passages, Macarons & Gourmet

Forget the traditional sightseeing tour where children simply follow adults from one landmark to another. On the Paris Family Challenge, your family becomes a team of explorers, detectives, and pastry chefs.

Your adventure begins around Palais Royal, where you'll receive your first clues and enter a fascinating side of Paris hidden behind the city's main streets.

Follow your challenge through some of Paris's most atmospheric covered passages, including Galerie Vivienne, Passage des Panoramas, Passage Jouffroy, and Passage Verdeau.

Along the way, discover elegant mosaics, glass roofs, historic boutiques, theatres, collectors' shops, and architectural details that reveal how Paris changed during the 19th century.

Solve riddles, search for clues, answer historical questions, complete family photo challenges, and take part in playful missions. You might even have to perform a few seconds of dramatic French theatre or pose like a wax figure.

Learn how the covered passages became fashionable destinations for shopping, entertainment, and social life before the rise of modern department stores.

At Galerie Vivienne, investigate its magnificent mosaics and elegant glass roof. At Passage des Panoramas, search for clues and discover traces of old Paris. Near the historic theatres, complete a fun family performance challenge.

At Passage Jouffroy, look for architectural clues and mysterious figures that never seem to grow older. At Passage Verdeau, explore a quieter world of books, prints, photographs, and collectors while tackling the question of why some passages survived while others disappeared.

Finally, bring everything you've discovered together in the Grand Paris Puzzle.

Once you've completed the Secret Paris adventure, continue to Galeries Lafayette Haussmann for a 90-minute hands-on macaron workshop. Put on your apron, learn the techniques behind one of France's most famous pastries, create your own macarons, and enjoy tasting what you've made.

Complete the challenges and macaron workshop to unlock a €50 Galeries Lafayette Gourmet reward. Then head into Galeries Lafayette Le Gourmet and decide how to use it. Choose something sweet, something savoury, something unmistakably French, or something completely new to your family.

Not suitable for

• People over 95 years
• Pregnant women

What to bring

• Cash
• Comfortable clothes
• Comfortable shoes

Not allowed

• Alcohol and drugs

Know before you go

• Includes a hands-on macaron workshop
• Suitable for families with children
• The activity involves walking through covered passages