Synopses & Reviews
11 Great Walking Tours Through the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods Follow Frommer's for an up-close and personal look at Paris. Discover the atmospheric and the opulent, the sacred and the profane, the ancient and the avant-gardeeverything that makes Paris unique. Among the highlights:
- The birthplace of Paris, the Ile de la Cité, home to two of the world's most incredible churches
- The bohemian Latin Quarter, with vestiges of a Roman bath among the cafe-lined cobblestone streets
- Sacré-Coeur and beautiful Montmartre, the village on a hill that inspired van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec
- St-Germain and Montparnasse, where you can see the hangouts of Picasso, Hemingway, Sartre, and Man Ray
- Père-Lachaise, final resting place of such celebrities as Jim Morrison, Piaf, Stein, Toklas, and Wilde
With easy-to-use directions and mapsand the best places to take a break along the way It's a Whole New World with Frommer's. Formerly Frommer's Walking Tours: Paris Find us online at www.frommers.com
About the Author
About the Author Jeanne Oliver practiced law for 10 years in New York City before her love of French culture and cuisine prompted her to relocate to Paris. She worked in the tourist industry for several years before becoming a freelance writer, specializing in France and Europe for various magazines and guidebooks. For Macmillan Travel, she's the author of Frommer's Paris from $70 a Day and a contributor to Frommer's Europe from $50 a Day and Frommer's Europe.
Table of Contents
Introducing the City of Light.
The Walking Tours.
Ancient & Medieval Paris.
1. The Ile de la Cité.
2. The Latin Quarter.
Royal Paris.
3. The Marais.
4. The Faubourg St-Germain.
Artistic & Literary Paris.
5. The St-Germain Quarter & Montparnasse.
6. Montmartre.
7. The Père-Lachaise Cemetery.
Essentials.
Index.