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A close-up of a large, arched green wooden door set within a stone archway, with a blue house number plaque reading "24" on the left jamb.

Paris, Île-de-France

Place des Vosges

Paris's oldest square, featuring 17th-century red brick a...

Free

Place Vendôme in Paris with its central column

Paris, Île-de-France

Place Vendôme

18th-century square with Napoleon's column and luxury jew...

Free

The image shows the ornate interior of a large church, featuring a high vaulted ceiling with gold detailing, large stained-glass windows, and three prominent religious murals above an altar area with rows of wooden chairs.

Paris, Île-de-France

Saint-Eustache

Gothic church, baptism site of Molière

Free

A low-angle photograph of a tall, light-colored stone bell tower with Romanesque architectural features, including arched openings, a steep pyramidal roof topped with a cross, and a clock face on the facade, set against a clear blue sky.

Paris, Île-de-France

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Oldest Paris bell tower with Romanesque architecture
Cour Carrée of the Louvre Museum at dusk with a glowing central fountain.

Paris, Île-de-France

The Louvre Museum

World's largest art museum in historic Paris palace

From €22

A full-frontal view of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in Paris, featuring its distinctive quadriga sculpture on top, pink marble columns, and inscriptions, with tourists walking around its base under an overcast sky.

Paris, Île-de-France

Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel

Neoclassical arch celebrating Napoleonic victories
View from inside a lock looking out onto the tree-lined Canal Saint-Marin.

Paris, Île-de-France

Canal Saint-Martin

19th-century canal with iron bridges in Paris

Free

The image shows the interior nave of a Gothic-style church with stone pillars, vaulted ceilings, stained glass windows, and rows of wooden stools, identified by the filename as the Church of St-Gervais-et-St-Protais in Paris.

Paris, Île-de-France

Église Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais

17th-century church with Renaissance facade
An interior view of a grand stone staircase with ornate black iron railings, tall arched windows, and a vaulted ceiling with faded frescoes, identified by the filename as the "Escaliers Est" (East Stairs) of Les Invalides.

Paris, Île-de-France

Les Invalides

Historic complex housing Napoleon's tomb and the Army Mus...

From €5

A black-and-white photograph of a formal courtyard garden with ornate gravel patterns, flanked by Renaissance-style buildings featuring arched colonnades and classical facades, with a watermark in the lower-left corner reading "PALIER" and "PARIS"

Paris, Île-de-France

Musée Carnavalet

Paris history museum in two adjoining Marais mansions

Free

A cream-colored building with brown shutters and a white canopy tent in the foreground, part of a courtyard or garden area with adjacent stone walls and a taller white building in the background.

Paris, Île-de-France

Musée de la Vie Romantique

1830 Ary Scheffer home in Montmartre
A pointillist painting depicting the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, viewed from the Quai Saint-Michel across the Seine River, with figures and horse-drawn carriages in the foreground.

Paris, Île-de-France

Notre-Dame de Paris

Historic Gothic cathedral with free entry

Free

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