If you’re in Paris this weekend, you’re in for a treat … a.k.a the annual Heritage Days. If not? Schedule a future holiday to coincide with the third weekend of September, for this is when Paris (and the rest of France) celebrate the Journées du Patrimoine. On these Heritage Days, many historic yet private buildings […]
Paris Museums
The Best Paris Books of 2022 (So Far)
There’s something for every kind of Paris lover (and reader) in the latest batch of books that are inspired by or set in the City of Light. Do you like to stay up to all hours, page-turning on the edge of your seat? Or do you prefer uplifting tales of courage and romance against all […]
Making a Day of the Place des Vosges
The Place des Vosges is one of those spots in Paris where you feel as though you can breathe that much more easily. It elicits a deep sigh of pleasure, perhaps because of the harmony of it all, the gracefulness of this serene marvel set within the Marais. Dating from the beginning of the seventeenth […]
A Meander through Medieval Paris
You might not at first connect Paris with medieval times, or the so-called Dark Ages. Paris is the City of Light, after all. Of enlightenment. The city that came of age in the grand siècle — the seventeenth century — when grand new buildings and monuments were carved from bright limestone, when the Sun King […]