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Arenes de Lutece
1h
Your guide, and expert of Paris history will bring to life the importance of the games in the daily life of the gallo-romans, back in Lutetia 2000 years ago.
Likely built in the 1st century AD, they were destroyed two centuries later during the Germanic invasions. They gradually disappeared until, in 1869, a miracle occurred. Rue Monge was opened, and the arena was reborn. A quintessential place of entertainment in Roman life, the arena would probably not be there today without Victor Hugo. In 1869, the city council wanted to build a tram depot on the site, but the writer fought back: "It is impossible that Paris, the city of the future, should renounce the living proof that it was once a city of the past." Thus, what is now the oldest monument in Paris endures, and the arena appears to have been among the largest in Gaul, with a capacity of 15,000 people.
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Les Thermes de Lutece
1h · Admission ticket included
Here, still in the Ancient Roman Paris, you will understand how much daily baths, hot, cold, massage, and gym was an essential part of the dignitaries of Lutetia, and what represented this central institution in the life of Romans in Lutetia.
Within the current Cluny Museum – a museum of the Middle Ages – lie the remains of Gallo-Roman public baths, remarkably well-preserved despite the barbarian invasions that attempted to destroy them completely. Restored by Louis XVIII in 1819, the baths were ceded to the State in 1843.
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Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris
1h · Admission ticket included
Inside the crypt of Notre Dame de Paris, you will enter the crypt where you can see the actual forum, one of the walls of the ancient market where the local were bartering and buying/selling local products as well as products from all over the Roman Empire. You'll understand here how much this empire was about diverses cultures mixing all together.
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Boulevard Haussmann
1h
Your guide will now take you on a journey in the 19th Century when the Police chief of Paris, Baron Haussmann, decided for safety and hygiene reasons to transform the city with new streets, avenues, and boulevard, shaping for ever a completely new Paris
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Grands Boulevards
1h
Along the Paris Grand Boulevards, by the Printemps, Galeries Lafayette, your guide will explain you how fashion and ready to wear revolutionized the life of women back in 1880, 1890.
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Avenue Foch
1m
Along the Avenue Foch and its impressive private mansions discover Paris ultimate luxury where the very rich and powerful stay when they come to the city of lights. The Avenue Foch was built at the time of the Haussmann transformation of Paris to host friends of the power in place of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Place-Vendome
1h
On the Place Vendome, between high end jewelry boutiques and the Ritz hotel understand the importance of this square and the column in the center in the tumultuous history of France.
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Quartier de l'Opera
1h · Admission ticket included
Take a peak inside the Opera de Paris and explore more the outside of the place to understand the Haussmann style, a blend of efficiency, and comfort and baroque style.
