In this tour, you will be introduced to the city of lights’ most spectacular and renowned monuments and historical sites of Paris.

The brand new audiopen is the audioguide at the cutting edge of technology: simple and easy to use with its interactive map and your own personal guide in your language. Packed with information about each place you will pass by and see, you will learn of history, architecture, famous French characters and so on while staying succinct and thrilling.

From Concorde, you will drive by L’Orangerie to reach the beautiful Opera Garnier (inspiration for “the Phantom of the Opera”) and go through the Place Vendme (be dazzled by its 17th century architecture and jewelry stores), the Palais Royal (former personal residence of Cardinal Richelieu) and the Louvre, where you will admire the Great Glass Pyramid designed by Chinese architect Ieoh Ming Pei in 1989.

You will also explore the Tuileries gardens, the Pont des Arts (pedestrian wooden bridge overwhelmed by its love locks), the Conciergerie (former royal palace and prison), the Sainte-Chapelle (Gothic masterpiece with world-renowned 13th century stained glass windows) and the ever-famous Notre Dame cathedral, inspiration to Hugo’s “Hunchback of Notre-Dame”.

Crossing the river, welcome to the Left bank and the Latin quarter, home to artists, writers, philosophers and students, the Sorbonne university, the Pantheon (resting place of great men and woman: Marie Curie) and the Luxembourg garden.

You will then reach Ile Saint-Louis to reach the famous Bastille (former fortress where the French Revolution started), through the beautiful Place des Vosges (oldest planned square in Paris) in the Marais to reach the Hotel de Ville (City Hall).

Continue to the Mus□e d’Orsay (former train station, Impressionists’ museum) and across the river again to the Champs-Elys□es avenue and its fancy stores to reach the Arch of Triumph at the top and its crazy huge square shaped like a star. Drive by La Pava’s mansion, the Petit and Grand Palais (built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition), the Invalides (former military hospital, home of Napoleon’s tomb), and finally the aligned Champ de Mars, Eiffel Tower and Trocad□ro.

End your tour with a one hour river cruise leaving from the Eiffel Tower, where you will admire the monuments from a different point of view.