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A taste of Paris

Paris is so familiar from a thousand films, books, and Instagram posts that the city's actual magic can take a moment to land — then suddenly does, usually somewhere unexpected: a perfect almond croissant at Du Pain et des Idées, the bookstalls along the Seine at golden hour, the quiet courtyard of the Musée Rodin. The headline sights still deserve every minute: Notre-Dame (reopened December 2024 after the 2019 fire restoration, scaffolding finally down), the Eiffel Tower (book ahead and go up at sunset), the world-altering collection of the Louvre, and the Musée d'Orsay's astonishing Impressionists hung inside a Belle-Époque railway station. Climb up to the white domes of Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre for the rooftop panorama, walk the Seine quais from Île Saint-Louis to the Marais (Paris's best surviving medieval district), and lose an afternoon at the Musée de l'Orangerie's Monet Water Lilies. Beyond the postcard, the city's twenty arrondissements unfold like neighbourhoods: the canal-side cafes of the 10th, the Cantonese pastries in Belleville, the multicultural food scene of the 18th, and the Marais's mix of Jewish heritage, hip boutiques, and rainbow flags. Most importantly: walk.