The Islands

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The Islands

There’s nowhere better to start a tour of Paris than with the two river islands at the centre, the Ile de la Cite and the Ile St-Louis. The former is the core from which the rest of Paris grew and harbours the capital’s most treasured monuments – the Gothic cathedral of Notre-Dame and the stunning Sainte-Chapelle – while the smaller Ile St-Louis, linked to the Ile de la Cite by a footbridge, has no heavyweight sights to speak of, but possesses a charm all of its own, with its handsome ensemble of seventeenth-century houses, villagey streets and tree-lined quais.

Tourist Attractions

• Ile de la Cite
• Pont-Neuf and square du Vert-Galant
• Place Dauphine and Sainte-Chapelle
• The Conciergerie and place Lepine
• Cathedrale de Notre-Dame
  • Peter Abelard
• The kilometer zero, Parvis and crypte archeologique
• Le Memorial de la Deportation
• The Ile St-Louis

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