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Paris
Paris is the French capital that gave the world Gothic cathedrals, Impressionist painting, and a wrought-iron tower that critics once called a 'truly tragic streetlamp.' From the medieval island at the city's heart to the hilltop cabarets of Montmartre, every arrondissement carries a layer of history you can walk through in an afternoon.
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Places researched in this city
A selection of the 101 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.
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Eiffel Tower
Built in just over two years for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, the tower was dismissed as a 'skeleton of a belfry' by Paul Verlaine before becoming the most visited monument on earth. Assembled from 18,038 iron parts, it stood as the world's tallest structure until 1930.
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Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris
Construction began in 1163 under Bishop Maurice de Sully, and the cathedral hosted Napoleon's coronation in 1804, yet it took Victor Hugo's 1831 novel to save it from demolition. After the 2019 fire, it reopened in 2024, its Gothic flying buttresses intact.
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Louvre Museum
A 12th-century fortress became a Renaissance palace, then the world's largest art museum after the National Assembly opened it to the public in 1793. I. M. Pei's glass pyramid, added in 1989, was itself once as controversial as the Eiffel Tower.
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Sainte-Chapelle
King Louis IX spent 135,000 livres on the relics housed here and only 40,000 on the chapel built to hold them, making the Crown of Thorns more expensive than the building itself. The upper chapel's 670 square metres of stained glass illustrate more than 1,100 biblical scenes.
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Arc de Triomphe
Napoleon commissioned it in 1806 after Austerlitz, but he never saw it finished: construction was interrupted after his fall in 1814 and completed only in 1836. Beneath it burns the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, lit every evening since 1923.
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The Catacombs of Paris
The bones of more than six million people were transferred here from overcrowded Parisian cemeteries starting in 1785, stacked in the same limestone quarries that had supplied stone for Notre-Dame and the Louvre. The ossuary opened to curious visitors as early as 1809.
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Passage des Panoramas
Paris's oldest covered arcade, opened in 1800, owes its name to the panoramic paintings of cities like Rome and Jerusalem displayed in two rotundas by American inventor Robert Fulton, who used the ticket sales to fund his steamboat experiments. In 1817 it became one of the first public spaces in Paris lit by gas.
Good to know
- How many places does Parroo cover in Paris?
- 101 researched places, from the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame Cathedral to lesser-known spots like the Passage des Panoramas. Each one has a short summary, a full article, and a ~3-minute audio story.
- Is there an audio guide?
- Yes. Every place has a ~3-minute audio story, written from the perspective of a guide standing next to you and produced with premium narration, not the article read aloud.
- Which languages is Paris available in?
- German, English, and French. Pick whichever you'd rather read or listen in.
- Do I need to book anything or be online?
- No booking, no signup. It's a self-guided walk you start whenever you like. You do need a connection for now to stream the audio and load articles; offline support is something we're still building.
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Updated: 2026-05-29