Insight Guides: Explore Paris

Insight Guides

• Editore: Insight
• ISBN:
  9781786716590
• Edizione: 2
• Argomento: Personal Development
• Categoria: Travel

A city for romantics, art enthusiasts and lovers of street life, Paris is eternally compelling, a beautiful urban landscape ideal for strolling through. Insight Guide Explore Paris is the ideal pocket companion for your trip: a full-colour guide containing 20 easy-to-follow routes around the City of Light.
Inside Explore Paris:
Discover the city's ancient Islands, the maze of narrow streets around Montmartre, the fashionable Marais and ultra-modern La Dfense. Plus routes around the exquisite Chteau de Versailles and Disneyland Paris for those with children in tow.
Insight's trademark cultural coverage sets the routes in context, with introductions to Paris' cuisine, fabulous shopping and sophisticated nightlife as well as key historical dates.
Our recommended places to eat and drink are highlighted in each route, with even more suggestions in the directory section, which also contains a wealth of useful practical information including a range of carefully selected accommodation to suit all budgets.
Pull-out map with useful plotted routes.
Evocative photography captures the essence of Parisian chic.

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine

How To Use This E-Book

This Explore Guide has been produced by the editors of Insight Guides, whose books have set the standard for visual travel guides since 1970. With ­top-­quality photography and authoritative recommendations, these guidebooks bring you the very best routes and itineraries in the world’s most exciting destinations.

Best Routes

The routes in this book provide something to suit all budgets, tastes and trip lengths. As well as covering the destination’s many classic attractions, the itineraries track lesser-known sights, and there are also ex­cursions for those who want to extend their visit outside the city. The routes embrace a range of interests, so whether you are an art fan, a gourmet, a history buff or have kids to entertain, you will find an option to suit.

We recommend reading the whole of a route before setting out. This should help you to familiarise yourself with it and enable you to plan where to stop for refreshments – options are shown in the ‘Food and Drink’ box at the end of each tour.

Introduction

The routes are set in context by this introductory section, giving an overview of the destination to set the scene, plus ...