Walk amid the blush-colored terracotta façades in la Ville Rose (the Pink City) and find busy marketplaces, live music venues and the mighty Canal du Midi.
One of the oldest museums in France, this institution is a fantastic place to see paintings, sculptures and architecture spanning centuries, back to the Middle Ages.
The French capital has taken a long and tumultuous journey through history, gifting the world with its finest art, food, literature and music, along the way.
The bold design vision of the Pompidou Centre may draw the crowds, but the National Museum of Modern Art keeps them challenged and inspired once inside.
A wide green square in the Latin Quarter, popular with students and government workers, and where Parisians have come to relax for the past four hundred years.