Paris Saint-Germian-des-Prés Tour

On this walking tour lasting approximately 2.5 hours, a local guide will take you on a detailed tour of Paris' most chic neighbourhood. In a group of maximum 8 people, you can go on your own or with a group of friends, and you 'll wander through the streets to soak up its history, as well as its flavours.

One of the great Parisian pastimes is to sit on a terrace and watch the people go by, and the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district is known for its famous cafés. In this district you can visit the first Parisian café and the oldest in France, Le Procope, which opened in 1686. Its clientele included such famous people as Balzac, Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.

On the boulevard Saint-Germain you will also find two iconic cafés, the café de Flore and the café des Deux Magots, which were meeting places for intellectuals, politicians and artists, where personalities such as Hemingway, Rimbaud, Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were frequent visitors.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés is an intellectual and chic neighbourhood, where art galleries coexist with luxury boutiques. It is home to the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where Monet, Degas, Delacroix and Renoir studied, and the Musée National Eugène Delacroix, erected in what was his residence at the time of his death in 1863. He lived here because he needed to be close to the Church of the Holy Suplicite, whose chapel bears his paintings and is featured in the film "The Da Vinci Code". Here you will also find the oldest church in Paris: the abbey of Saint Germain des Prés, built in the 6th century, where the remains of the thinker Descartes rest.