🏛️Top Attractions

Paris from 276 metres up, with the city's grand axes laid out below.

Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, Paris

Lift or stairs ticket

2 hours

Book the exact time slot online; the stairs to the second floor are cheaper and far quicker.

The world's most visited museum, from Egyptian antiquities to the Mona Lisa.

Rue de Rivoli, Paris

Timed ticket

3 hours

Enter via the Carrousel du Louvre entrance and choose two wings rather than trying to see everything.

A superb collection of French and European Jewish art and history in a Marais mansion.

71 Rue du Temple, Paris

Museum ticket

1–2 hours

A short walk from the kosher restaurants and bakeries of Rue des Rosiers.

The historic Pletzl: kosher bakeries, falafel counters, synagogues and elegant lanes.

Rue des Rosiers, Paris

Free

1–2 hours

Sunday is lively here, while most kosher businesses close early Friday for Shabbos.

A white basilica on the city's highest hill above the village streets of Montmartre.

35 Rue du Chevalier de la Barre, Paris

Free (dome ticket extra)

1–2 hours

Take the funicular up and walk down through Place du Tertre; watch your belongings on the steps.

Louis XIV's vast palace and gardens, 40 minutes from central Paris.

Place d'Armes, Versailles

Palace and estate tickets

Half day

Go early on a weekday; the gardens alone are worth the trip when the fountains play.