The City of Light is romantic, elegant, avant garde, haute cuisine, haute couture, and both classic and modern in its architecture and world-renowned art collections. It’s where World War I expatriates met in cafés and the painters of Montmartre created ground-breaking art. Paris is one of the few cities of the world where beauty and elegance are favored over purpose and practicality.
Down every street and around every corner there is something to see in Paris—shops, museums, monuments, parks, cathedrals, gardens, the banks of the Seine. When you need a rest, have an espresso at a sidewalk café and indulge in the Parisian activity of people watching.
Paris has over 150 art galleries and museums; an uncountable number of cafés, brasseries and restaurants; 140 theater and show venues and three operas; 100 or so discotheques; nearly 100 cabarets and 90 cinemas—artists, historians, gourmands, music lovers, writers, and curious tourists can all find something to see and do.
