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The Palais de Chaillot, perched in the 16th high up on the western bank of the Seine, offers classic views over the Eiffel Tower - the view across the river from the building’s wide open piazza is world famous, and an essential stop on every tourist itinerary.

The palais itself contains France’s national film institute, just one of a number of minor museums housed in the 16th arrondissement - just down the road in the Palais de Tokyo is Paris’ modern art museum, second only in fame to the Pompidou centre housed over eastward in the 4th.

Away from the tourist spots, much of the 16th is ‘old money’ Paris - grand appartments and expensive brasseries leading south from the Arc de Triomphe. It’s the embassy quarter too: street after street lined with narrow buildings representing distant and sometimes obscure nations.

Head further south and some real urban living does finally begin - the sixteenth arrondissement’s southern border is home to the Parc des Princes, the stadium of the city’s football team, Paris St Germain.