Notre-Dame's restoration after the 2019 fire cost approximately €700 million and required Versailles-trained stonemasons rebuilding using the same 13th-century techniques. Paris, the capital of France, is home to around 2.1 million people in the city proper and roughly 12.4 million across Île-de-France. The City of Light is laid out in 20 arrondissements spiralling clockwise from the Louvre, split by the River Seine into the bourgeois Right Bank and the bohemian Left Bank, and dominated by Gustave Eiffel's 330-metre tower, the Louvre's 9–10 million annual visitors, and a 16-line Métro that has been moving Parisians since 1900.
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You'll cover Paris's 20 arrondissements, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Mona Lisa, Notre-Dame's fire and reopening, Versailles and Louis XIV, the Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe, Sacré-Cœur and Montmartre, Père Lachaise's celebrity graves, the Sorbonne, Saint-Germain-des-Prés cafés, the Bastille and French Revolution, Haussmann's redesign of Paris, the Métro, the Sorbonne, Pont des Arts, Les Invalides, the Catacombs, the Paris Accord and the Paris 2024 Olympics, plus French cuisine staples from croissants and baguettes to Berthillon ice cream.
Notre-Dame de Paris reopened to the public on 7 December 2024, just over five years after the devastating fire of 15 April 2019. The roughly €700 million restoration was led by chief architect Philippe Villeneuve and used 13th-century carpentry and stonemason techniques to rebuild the spire and roof.
The Eiffel Tower was built by the engineering firm of Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair), marking the centennial of the French Revolution. The design itself came primarily from Eiffel's engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, with architect Stephen Sauvestre adding decorative elements.
Paris is divided into 20 arrondissements (administrative districts), spiralling clockwise from the 1st (containing the Louvre) like a snail's shell. The 1st through 4th were merged into 'Paris Centre' for local administration in 2020, but the historic 20-arrondissement numbering remains in use.
Last updated: May 2026