Addresses in Paris fall into one of twenty postcodes - one for each of the city’s twenty districts. All Paris postcodes (or zip codes, for our American audience) are made of 5 digits. The first three are always “750″, and the final two digits indicate in which of the twenty arrondissements the location can be [...]
The Louvre
The Louvre, perhaps the most famous art gallery in the world, dominates the centre of Paris. Some 35,000 works of art cram the long hallways and subterranean passageways of this 800 year-old royal fortress, which now inhabits more than a mile of the Right Bank’s central riverside.
Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the museum’s highlight (and [...]
For a city of its size, Paris is very short of green space - while the city is peppered with more than a hundred small public spaces, the gravel, pigeon-filled pathways that pass officially for ‘parcs‘ sometimes offer little rest from the dustry streets around them.
While Parisians in search of fresh air will often [...]
Paris is hardly short of great nights out - you’ll find a bar or brasserie of one sort or another on virtually every street. All Parisians, both residents and visitors, have their favourite bars, and it’s not hard to come by recommendations. But far more useful than a name and an address is a sense of the [...]
According to an article in Wired, Paris can claim to be the birthplace of the world’s first bus service, started by the prodigiously talented scientist, theologian and entrepreneur Blaise Pascal as far back as 1662:
The system started with seven horse-drawn vehicles running along regular routes. Each coach could carry six or eight passengers. Some [...]
