A city of: boulevards, historic cafés and cabarets with renowned fashion houses and art museums. Home of bohemians, aristocrats and chefs; related to icons such as Hugues de Paynes, Napoleon Bonaparte and Daft Punk. The birthplace of: Gothic architecture, the encyclopédie and l’impressionnisme; the center of innovation and style during La Belle Époque; and the capital of couture and cuisine — Paris has a lot to offer.

Paris is known for its: art museums, boutiques, restaurants plus its gothic churches, fashion houses and baroque palaces. It’s modern but old, conservative yet revolutionary, bohemian and boujee at the same time. Within the art world it plays a huge role in the academia and handcrafts spheres; and outside of it, it’s important in the fashion, culinary and beauty worlds. Many iconic artist, food, philosophers, architects and fashion designers have emerged from this city. Think of: Eugene Delacroix, Pierre Renoir, Rene Descartes, Voltaire, Louis Le Vau, Le Corbusier, Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, French pastries or fondue. There’s a lot to check out! If you only have a limited amount of time I would make sure to: visit 1 museum, eat at a nice restaurant, drink a cafe on Les Champs-Elysées, relax in a gothic/baroque church, watch a cabaret show around Montmartre, walk around Le Marais, go to a blue chip art gallery at Avenue Matignon and take a picture in front of the Eiffel Tower and/or Arch du Triumph. If you have more time you should try to: buy some beauty products, cruise up and down the River Seine, shop around the 8 arrondissement or Canal St Martin, read a French philosopher at the Luxembourg Gardens and get lost in the Latin Quarter.

Here are some recommendations of places to visit. Paris has 2 unesco sites: the banks of the River Seine and the architecture of Le Courbusier, but really close you have other 3 sites: the palaces of Fontainebleau and Versailles, plus the town of Provins. The city has 130 ‘Michelin restaurants’ with 10 having 3 stars, so try to make a reservation to one of them. My top 5 museums are: The Louvre Museum for antiquities; the Musee d’Orsay for Impressionist art; the Centre Pompidou for avant garde art; La Galerie Dior for Fashion; and The Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac for a little bit of everything. My favorite art galleries are: Perrotin, Mennour, Almine Rech, plus the 2 lords Hauser & Wirth, and Gagosian. For luxury shopping go to Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré or the department store Galeries Lafayette; for jewelry Place Vendôme, for the typical brands go to Les Champs-Elysées; and for cheaper goods Canal St Martin. Also take a chance to walk up and down Av. Montaigne, the epicenter of couture. Some venues to check out are Palais Garnier for opera and theater; Point Éphémère for alternative music, Moulin Rouge for a cabaret show and La Villete for concerts.

But if you have more time here are 9 daily tours to explore Paris by historical periods: