If you have just one day to explore the main city of France, we recommend spending at least 3-4 hours on a sightseeing tour of Paris. They can take place on foot or by bus - in a short time you will be shown the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and the Eiffel Tower, you will be guided along the Seine embankments and told about what a symbol of France used to be on Place de la Concorde, take a tour of the Louvre and see the monument at the Pont d-Alma bridge where Princess Diana crashed.
Bus tours of Paris
A few companies offer them - for example, Les Cars Rouges (taking tourists in traditional red-colored double-deckers), Foxity (orange buses), and Open Tours (yellow buses).
We recommend Les Cars Rouges - their tickets are valid for up to two days, you can transfer to any of the red buses, and you get an audio guide in Russian. These tours in Paris cost from 30 EUR.
Excursions to the suburbs are very popular in Paris. Versailles, the former residence of the French kings, is at the top of the list. There is something to see here: a magnificent well-maintained park, marble Trianon and ancient, darkened by time fountains. Tickets are available on the official Versailles website for around 25 EUR.
Well, and finally, if you want to see a real city, not a tourist one, or learn about the most unusual places of the capital, we recommend you to order an individual tour of Paris with a Russian guide. Among the popular topics of such excursions are the routes of famous movie and literary heroes, Paris of Picasso, Hemingway and Van Gogh, Parisian haunted places, the most romantic literary cafes of the city and the house of the legendary alchemist Nicolas Flamel.
