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Paris, Ile-de-France, France[0.2 miles]
Paris has everything from luxury fashion and indie boutiques, to hip department stores, markets and quirky antiques bazaars.
Best for ages: 13+ | Free | Any
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Primarily called ‘Duo’ because it was originally created from two separate hotels, the hotel’s name also celebrates its location in the heart of gay Paris, and its warm welcome whatever your orientation.
The owners have cleverly married old and new, integrating minimalist contemporary design by interiors maestro Jean-Philippe Nuel into a handsome period building.
There are 58 smart bedrooms, and a stylish open-plan lobby that’s ideal for a peaceful drink away from the surrounding hubbub of the hip Marais, one of Paris’ most beautiful neighbourhoods.
The hotel is in a prominent corner spot in this lively district, in the heart of the city’s gay bar scene and a couple of minutes’ walk from the Centre Pompidou.
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Paris, Ile-de-France, France[0.2 miles]
Paris has everything from luxury fashion and indie boutiques, to hip department stores, markets and quirky antiques bazaars.
Best for ages: 13+ | Free | Any
Paris, Ile-de-France, France[0.3 miles]
Europe’s largest collection of modern and contemporary art, housed in Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano’s iconic inside-out building.
Best for ages: 13+ | Free
Paris, Ile-de-France, France[0.6 miles]
This vast Medieval palace was most famous as the ‘antechamber to the guillotine’ in the French Revolution. Three thousand prisoners were tried and convicted here, including France’s last queen Marie Antoinette.
Best for ages: 13+ | £10
Paris, Ile-de-France, France[0.7 miles]
One of the world’s most important Picasso museums, highlighting the artist’s prolific career and his own collection of art in a sumptuous 17th-century mansion.
Best for ages: 18+ | £12
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Paris, Ile-de-France, France[0.7 miles]
Paris’ most exquisite Gothic monument was built by Louis IX in 1248 to house his collection of Passion relics, including Christ’s Crown of Thorns (now at Notre-Dame Cathedral). It has one of the most extensive 13th-century stained-glass collections anywhere in the world.
Best for ages: 18+ | Free
Paris, Ile-de-France, France[0.9 miles]
The birthplace of the rum baba in the 18th century, the city’s oldest patisserie still wows with its gateaux (cake) today.
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Paris, Ile-de-France, France[1 miles]
The apartment where famous French poet and novelist Victor Hugo lived for 16 years, now a museum about his life and works.
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Paris, Ile-de-France, France[1.8 miles]
Founded in 1793 during the French Revolution, this impressive museum has four substantive galleries, with dinosaurs galore, all dedicated to preserving and educating about the natural world.
Best for ages: 4+ | £26
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Ile-de-France, France
Crammed with iconic buildings, world-class art and a culinary scene steeped in history, Paris is one of the world’s great capitals, overflowing with style, romance, and art de vivre.