Travel Advice

Are you planning a weekend trip to Paris? This way you have access to the best bars, cafes and restaurants and can be within walking distance from everything you want to see: the Louvre, Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomph.

A big must see on your list apart from Montmartre, Pigalle and the most sumptuous palace in the world; Versailles, should be the right bank. Full to bursting of treats, the right bank offers a wealth of museums, monuments and canalside recreation. Here in the North bank you will find the Palais-Royal, once cardinal Richelieu’s private mansion and no the Conseil d’Etat and Ministry of Culture. It is somewhat understated, but its beauty strikes you as you walk round the pretty gardens. It is rather strange to think it, but this was once the most debauched corner of the capital and the starting point of the French Revolution. In the 1780’s the Palais was a loud and busy hubbub of aristocrats and poor inhabitants of the faubourgs.

The coffee houses in the arcades here were once hotspots for debate starting and it was here that Camille Desmoulins called the city to arms on Bastille Day. There is a restaurant that survives from this era; “Le Grand Véfour” originally founded as “Café de Chartres” in the 1780s, impressive isn’t it?

Amongst the many sights to see in the right bank, you will find the breath taking cathedral of Alexander Nevsky. This Russian Orthodox church is beautiful from the outside, with its traditional onion domes, golden mosasics and crosses and is just as brilliant on the inside. On entering you are greeted by a big waft of incense and immediately notice the tiled patterned floor and doors. The cathedral was built in the neo-Byzantine Novgorod-style of the 1600s and services on Sunday mornings and Orthodox saints’ days are in Russian.

Also worth doing in the right bank is leaving your accommodation Paris to take a stroll through the Jardin des Tuileries. Open between 7.30am and 7pm daily, this graveled area has been fashionable since the 16th century when it first opened to the public, and is now a popular place to stroll. Basically a very chic promenade between the Louvre and place de la Concorde, the alleyways of these gardens are named after the tile factories that stood here in the Middle Ages. The royal gardener “André Le Notre” began his career here in 1664 before having the honour of working at Versailles and it is due to him that this prototypical French garden was created with terraces and pretty circular ponds.

Be sure to book a fantastic apartments Paris or Paris hotels, as it is really important to be near to everything you want to see!

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