Paris Digest
Paris city guide since 1997
The walk in Le Marais leads you through the best district of Paris for a walk: narrow streets, few cars, lots of pedestrians and bicycles, density of sights, number of shops and cafés. Discover Centre Pompidou, Hotel de Ville, the Jewish district, the shopping district, Place des Vosges. No wonder Le Marais became the fashionable district in town. Walks in Paris.
You have 3 hours for a walk in Le Marais. It is possible to see a lot of its streets and sights walking at your own pace.
Start from Hotel de Ville metro station on line 1 (marker 1 on map). You can easily do the short walk to Hotel de Ville from Centre Pompidou, Notre-Dame or even the Louvre Museum.
Spend time at the BHV Le Marais Department Store (1) if you are on a Paris shopping tour. Admire Hotel de Ville, the Paris City Hall. Visit the beautiful Saint-Gervais catholic church (2).
Have a drink at a café in rue du Bourg Tibourg (3). Buy a Jewish pastry in rue des Rosiers (4). Enter French fashion stores in rue des Rosiers (4), rue des Francs-Bourgeois (D) and near by streets. Le Marais shopping information. Visit the Carnavalet Museum (5), the museum of Paris history. Rest in Place des Vosges (6). Admire Hotel de Sully and rue Saint-Antoine (7) back to Saint-Paul metro station (8). Have a great walk in Le Marais.
Information on Le Marais.
Spending more time on the walk, discover a few added treasuries. Visiting all of them requires two days.
Picasso Museum Paris, the best in the world
Cognacq-Jay Museum, lovely art museum
Jewish Art and History Museum, well done in old mansion
Shoah Memorial, moving memorial of the deportation
