Self-guided walking tour
Paris Walking Tour: Le Marais – Mansions, Markets and Royal Squares (about 4 hours, 8 stops)
8 stops in walking order through Paris, from Centre Georges Pompidou to Hôtel de Sens: 3.5 km on foot, about 43 min of walking, 4 h 5 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Le Marais: Mansions, Markets and Royal Squares”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.
- Total
- 4 h 5 min
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Walking
- 43 min
- Stops
- 8
The stops, in walking order
Centre Georges Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou is a Paris cultural building complex famous for exposing its structure and service systems across the façade.
5 min walk · 430 m
Maison de Nicolas Flamel
A stone house completed in 1407, with a façade that preserves carved door surrounds and a prayer inscription.
6 min walk · 540 m
Musée de la chasse et de la nature
A private museum exploring hunting, wildlife and humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
5 min walk · 430 m
Marché couvert des Enfants Rouges
A covered market with roots in the early seventeenth century and a name linked to a nearby orphanage founded by Marguerite de Navarre.
5 min walk · 430 m
Le Marais
A historic Paris district whose former marshland was drained and cultivated before aristocratic families filled it with private residences.
6 min walk · 480 m
Musée Carnavalet
Musée Carnavalet traces Paris through historic rooms, paintings, objects, furniture, and decorative interiors.
5 min walk · 340 m
Place des Vosges
An enclosed Parisian square framed by unified residences, arcades, steep slate roofs, and carefully repeated façades.
11 min walk · 860 m
Hôtel de Sens
A castle-like former residence of the archbishops of Sens, distinguished by its pointed gateway, keep and corner turrets.
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