The Latin Quarter and the 5th arrondissement of Paris
Boulevard Saint-Michel. The National Museum of the Middle Ages. The Saint-Séverin Quartier. Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. Rue Mouffetard. Le Jardin des Plantes. Val-de-Grâce. The Sorbonne. The church of Saint-Séverin. The church of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre. Rue de la Huchette. Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. The Panthéon.
Before setting off to explore the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower, you really must look around the Latin Quarter, take a seat on a café terrace in Saint-Séverin and go up and down the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Champs-Elysées. You should wander along the banks of the Seine, listen to the buskers playing guitars or accordions resonating from the underside of a bridge, have a rummage amongst the books sold by the famous 'bouquinistes' and gaze at the steeples of Notre-Dame above the Seine, one of the most famous views in the capital.
You should also take a stroll along Rue Mouffetard, the once working class area of Vieux Paris that has now been renovated and become a trendy neighbourhood. The 'bobos' (bourgeois bohème) like to have brunch in its cosy restaurants that have replaced the local bistros that, on the dot of ten o-clock suddenly filled with the local market gardeners lining up in front the bar for a glass of white wine.
Our favourite restaurants:
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Restaurant, Le Bar à huitres, 33 rue Saint Jacques 75005 Paris +33 (0)1 44 07 27 37
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Restaurant, Terroir Parisien, 20 rue Saint-Victor 75005 París +33 (0)1 44 31 54 54
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Restaurant, La Tour d’Argent, 15-17 quai de la Tournelle 75005 Paris +33 (0)1 43 54 10 08
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Restaurant, Les Papilles, 30 rue Gay-Lussac 75005 París +33 (0)1 43 25 20 79
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Bistro, Des Gastronomes, 10 rue du Cardinal-Lemoine 75005 París +33 (0)1 43 54 62 40
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Restaurant, Chez René, 14 boulevard St-Germain 75005 París +33 (0)1.43.54.30.23
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Restaurant, Au Moulin à Vent, 20 rue des Fosés-St-Bernard 75005 París +33 (0)1 43 54 99 37
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Restaurant, L'Atelier Maitre Albert, 1 rue Maître Albert 75005 Paris +33(0)1 56 81 30 01
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Restaurant, La Truffière, 4 rue Blainville 75005 Paris +33 (0)1 46 33 29 82
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Restaurant, Le Buisson Ardent,25 rue Jussieu 75005 Paris +33 (0)1 43 54 93 02
