Bienvenue à Paris, proud holder of the titles capital of France and world capital of fashion, architecture and gastronomy. The city that was once contained on a tiny island in the River Seine now covers some 90sq km and has lost neither its sparkle nor its allure for the modern-day curious visitor.
While almost 2.5 million people live in the city itself, Paris comprises an intricate network of urban villages, known as arrondissements, each offering unique places of interest, lessons in art and history, restaurants and cafés, shops and, usually, a green space in which to stretch out and contemplate Descartes’s
cogito, or perhaps just map out the next shopping assault.
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