10 things to see in Paris

EIFFEL TOWER

Experience heart-stopping views over the city from Paris’s most iconic landmark.

ARC DE TRIOMPHE

Give your legs a workout and climb the 284 steps to the top. The wonderful views sweep between the arc of La Defense and the Louvre.

PERE-LACHAISE

From Balzac to Chopin to Oscar Wilde, the talent-spotting is endless in this celebrity cemetery. Rock singer Jim Morrison is also buried here. SWIM IN THE RIVER AT PISCINE JOSEPHINE BAKER Take a splash on the River Seine in this floating pool. A real treat in the summer.

THE LOUVRE

Feast your eyes on treasures like the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and Egyptian mummies – not to mention on the building itself.

THE LATIN QUARTER

Peruse the former haunts of Hemingway, Stein, Picasso, Camus, Prévert, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

HEMINGWAY BAR

Rendezvous at this piano bar at The Ritz. It was where novelist Ernest Hemingway whiled away many a drinking hour and decades on it has been named in his honour.

PAY HOMAGE TO MONET’S WATER LILIES

Brave the queues to see the eight, tapestry-sized Nymphéas (water lilies) paintings housed in two plain oval rooms at the Musée de l’Orangerie.

PALACE OF VERSAILLES

Centuries of makeovers have made Versailles the most sumptuously clad château in the world – a brilliant, unmissable cocktail of extravagance.

CRUISE THE RIVER SEINE

Many of the city’s most gorgeous monuments cling to the banks of the Seine and the river’s bridges are truly beautiful, providing Kodak moments galore.