Paris in the Marco Polo Spiral Guides series is a practical guide presenting the most important things to see & do in the city in a nutshell, & aimed at travellers who don’t have a lot of time to prepare & research for a trip. The guide highlights the top 10 sights, suggests tours & great ideas for exciting days out, & features colour photographs & a pull-out street map & atlas pages. The guide opens with introductory chapters offering general information about the region, its history, art, geography & the people & things that make it worth visiting. Then, the guide divides the area into sections, & for each offers more specific information organised by Getting Your Bearings, Perfect Days giving examples of planned itineraries, the Top 10, Don’t Miss & At Your Leisure. There are planned day itineraries for each area including the best places to eat & drink along the way, accompanied by local map extracts & dotted with useful tips. An additional chapter offers inspirations for walks & tours. The guide concludes with general & practical information, street atlas pages & a removable pull-out map, conveniently stored in a plastic pocket on the back cover. The format is designed with practicality in mind; the spiral binding & the colour coding makes it easy to keep the book open where is needed & render orientation fast & easy, ideal for travellers on the go. ...

Marco Polo Handbooks offer expert advice & are aimed at travellers looking for in-depth coverage of a destination
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Following on from Helen Constantine`s hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, & ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be found when you emerge above ground. They range from the 15th-century account of the miraculous Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, through tales by favourite writers such as Zola, Simenon, & Maupassant, to Martine Delerm`s evocation of the last hours of Modigliani`s mistress, Jeanne Hebuterne. Gerard de Nerval evokes the thriving, bustling market in Les Halles in the 1850s; Colette recounts her involvement in a traffic accident near the Opera; Boulanger describes a blackly funny experience in Pere Lachaise. Each story is illustrated with a black-&-white photograph & there is a map & suggested itinerary round the metro system. Readers will find familiar & unfamiliar writers here, but all are masterly writers of the short story & each evokes a different aspect of this endlessly intriguing & much-loved city, whether the traveller is on the metro or at home sitting in an armchair. ...

Paris at 1:17, 000 on a “write & wipe” waterproof & tear-resistant, indexed street plan from Michelin with a road map of the city’s environs, a plan of Disneyl&, a metro diagram, plus sightseeing recommendations based on the publisher’s Green Guide. On one side is a street plan covering the city from the edge of the Bois de Boulogne to the Père Lachaise metro station (so not the cemetery itself), & from Montmartre & Gare du Nord in the north to the grounds of Paris Expo & the National Library. Important buildings & places of interest are clearly marked & named, with 30 specially selected locations cross-referenced to their descriptions on the reverse. Metro stations are clearly marked, indicating where useful alternative entry/exits. PLEASE NOTE: this map has different cartography to Michelin’s other street plans of Paris, with less detail, no one way streets, etc. Street index, on the reverse,

Includes:: a list of points of interest. The reverse side also

Includes:: three sections with 30 star-rated recommendations: The Essentials, Also Worth Seeing, & Our Favourites. Also provided is a road map of the capital’s environs (showing access to Versailles, CDG & Orly airports, Disneyl&, etc), a plan of Disneyl&, plus practical information (getting around, opening hours & public holidays, etc). To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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Paris Green Guide *ENGLISH Edition* in Michelin’s Green Guide series covering France, with all the regions available either in English editions or in French versions. Drawing on Michelin’s long experience, the guides are renowned for their individual ‘star rating’ of sights & attractions. Listings in each guide are organized alphabetically, allowing readers to access information quickly. Towns are given overall star rating, with their sights & attractions also rated individually. Where appropriate, a street plan of the town centre is provided, indicating car parks & accompanied by an index of main streets & a list of sights highlighted on it. For many towns a recommended sightseeing tour is also marked on the plan. Entries for important churches are accompanied by detailed plans. Recommended car tours have overview maps showing road numbers & locations of the sights. Where necessary, the guides give opening hours & contact details. Many entries have an “ Address Book” section with Michelin’s recommendations for where to stay & where to eat. Each guide has a very extensive introductory section with practical information & pre-trip tips, chapters on history, art & culture (particularly strong on architectural styles, explained by excellent drawings), fauna & flora, etc. Fold-out flaps in the book covers provide an overview of the recommended sights and/or car tours.* In the ENGLISH version of the Paris guide:* the city’s sights are listed alphabetically & presented with numerous plans of local neighbourhoods overprinted with sightseeing routes. Detailed plans of the Louvre with locations of its best known exhibits & star ratings for individual departments & galleries. Recommendations for places to stay & to eat also arranged by arrondisements, plus a special entertainment listing. Excursions to important sights accessible as day trips: Chartres, Fontainebleau, Versailles, Chantilly, St. Denis, & Disneyl&, with detailed plans.* In the FRENCH version of the Paris guide:* as above, except: chapters covering the city’s most important sights are followed by sections proving a better overview of local neighbourhoods, with accompanying street plans covering wider areas & overprinted with longer walks; more entries for the outer arrondisements; the excursions chapter covers only Versailles & Disneyl&, in less detail than in the English version; recommendations for places to stay & eat are listed only with the sights, without an overall section by arrondisements.* In the regional guides:** * French language guides* have a larger number of individual entries than included in the corresponding English titles, as well as more exhaustive descriptions, with wider coverage of local history and/or famous people connected with a given location.* * English language guides* have more recommendations for car tours. The “ Address Book” sections often include shopping suggestions. ...

Discover Paris by foot, car or bike using Michelin Paris Plan City Plan (scale 1:10, 000). In addition to Michelin`s clear & accurate mapping, this city plan will help you explore & navigate across Paris` different districts thanks to its full index, its comprehensive key showing places of interest & tourist attractions, as well as practical information on public transport leisure facilities, service stations & shops. ...

Replaces both the Paris Transport (51) & Paris Tourism (53) Maps. Discover Paris by foot, car or bike using Michelin Paris City Plan (with Street index, scale 1:20, 000). In addition to Michelin`s clear & accurate mapping, this city plan will help you explore & navigate across Paris` different districts thanks to its full index, its comprehensive key showing places of interest & tourist attractions, as well as practical information on public transport leisure facilities, service stations & shops. ...

The Michelin Wall Map of Paris at 1:10, 000 scale is a detailed, clear & easy to read high-scale map. Road types are clearly marked, including motorways, dual carriageways, complex junctions, areas subject to restrictions, one-way streets & pedestrian areas. Additional road/street details such as footpaths, bridges, tunnels, arches & cycle ways are also shown. Building numbering along central streets is indicated. Land use is shown through shading, indicating built-up areas, parkl&, undeveloped land & industrial areas. Public buildings including churches, public galleries & museums, hospitals & government buildings are highlighted, & separate highlighting shows other selected buildings of interest/significance. Symbols denote sport & leisure facilities, & some points of tourist interest, such as monuments & covered markets. Practical facilities such as hospitals, police, post offices & 24-hour petrol stations are also shown. Tax, coach, rail, RER & metro stations are all shown, although routes are not. No topographical information is shown. This map is available as a folded street map of Paris, Michelen street plan number 54. ...

Paris in Michelin’s ‘ Must Sees’ series is a lightweight guide containing must see information, must see sights, must do activities & must know practicalities graded using Michelin’s time-honoured star rating system. The guide opens with a section of useful ‘ Must Know’ information that

Includes:: a calendar of events, practical tips on getting by & a summary of Michelin selected star attractions. The ‘ Must See’ section of the guide look at shopping, nightlife & theatre, hotels & dining, parks & gardens, neighbourhoods, landmarks, museums, historic sites, practical information, events, tips & excursions. The ‘ Must Do’ chapter

Includes:: a focus on activities for children, whereas places to eat & places to stay are reviewed in the ‘ Must Eat’ & ‘ Must Stay’ chapters.



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This is a unique set of three mini notebooks from Cavallini & Co. with beautiful covers featuring vintage illustrations of Paris’ icons & landmarks. The set

Includes:: one blank, one lined & one graph notebook (100 pages each approximately). These are ideal travel companions to organise notes, thoughts & plans.

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