The 3rd arrondissement contains the northern, quieter part of the medieval district of Le Marais (while the 4th arrondissement contains Le Marais’ more lively southern part, notably including the gay district of Paris) and the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers housed in the medieval priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs.

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The 2nd arrondissement contains the former Paris Bourse (stock exchange) and a large number of banking headquarters, as well as a textile district, known as the Sentier, and the Opéra-Comique concert hall. The 2nd arrondissment is also the home of all of Paris’s surviving 19th-century glazed commercial arcades (Galerie Vivienne, the Passage Choiseul, the Galerie Colbert, the Passage des Princes, the Passage du Grand Cerf, the Passage du Caire, the Passage Lemoine, the Passage Jouffroy…)

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Victor Hugo from 1832 – 1848, No. 6, “Maison de Victor Hugo”, now a museum devoted to his memory…

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The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France, situated in the 5ème arrondissement. The grounds of the Jardin des Plantes includes four galleries of the museum: the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, the Mineralogy Museum, the Paleontology Museum and the Entomology Museum. In addition to the gardens there is also a small zoo and three hectares are devoted to plants: an Alpine garden, an Art Deco wintergarden, a rose garden…

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The Musée d’Orsay, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d’Orsay, is best known for the largest collection in the world of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings (Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh…).

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Located in the 20th arrondissement, Père Lachaise is reputed to be the world’s most-visited cemetery. Many famous people are buried here including Musset, Chopin, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Delacroix, Balzac and the most famous religious figures, the unlucky lovers Héloïse and Abélard…

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