Eleven kilometres of protected riverside path, almost entirely flat, running through the middle of Paris. On one side the water, on the other the Institut du Monde Arabe, Notre-Dame, the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Pont Neuf, the Eiffel Tower. This self-guided tour follows that path from one end to the other.
You begin at the four glass towers of the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, shaped like open books, and ride west. The Left Bank carries you past the floating Joséphine Baker swimming pool, the Jardin des Plantes and its second-oldest zoo in the world, the statue of Rimbaud, the bouquinistes and their four kilometres of green boxes, Notre-Dame, and the address every French crime novel knows, 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Then the Pont Neuf, the Louvre, the Assemblée Nationale, the Pont Alexandre III, the sewers, the Eiffel Tower, and finally the Île aux Cygnes, where the little sister of the Statue of Liberty looks west across the Atlantic.
This is not a live guided tour.
Points forts
Ce qui est inclus
Three maps: one full bike route, plus EAST and WEST maps for walking it over two days
Illustrated PDF guidebook, 33 stops, delivered by message after booking
A full practical chapter on Vélib', bike rental shops and the French rules of the road
Unlimited lifetime access to the guide and the audio
Practical chapter: how to get a Vélib' or rent a bike, and the cycling rules in Paris
Non inclus
Bicycle. Vélib' subscription or bike rental is arranged and paid by you.
Helmet, lock and any other equipment
Live guide or host (this is a self-guided digital product)
Public transport tickets
Entry tickets, stopping inside museums or monuments is entirely optional
Food and drinks
Headphones, mobile data or roaming
Itinéraire
1
French National Library
On 14 July 1988, President François Mitterrand announced thecreation of what would become one of the largest and mostmodern libraries in the world
Stretching over the Seine between the fifteenth and the sixteentharrondissements, the Bir Hakeim bridge links the Quai Branly to theAvenue du Président Kennedy
Passage sans arrêt•Entrée libre
19
At the beginning of the sixteenth century this island lay outsideParis and gave farmers a strip of land where they grazed their cows
Passage sans arrêt•Entrée libre
20
She is most famous in New York, but the Statue of Liberty has alittle sister standing at the very tip of the Île aux Cygnes
Passage sans arrêt•Entrée libre
Point de rendez-vous
Metro line 14 or RER C to Bibliothèque François Mitterrand, come out beside the four tower blocks of the national library. Also bus 62, 64, 89, 132, or tram T3a. This is a self-guided tour: no group, no guide waiting. Start whenever you like. The route also works by bike.
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