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2 Starting from the east, it in the ateliers of the school.
passes the Musée de Cluny
Many American architects
Boulevard St-Germain and the Sorbonne, and is have also studied here.
most lively from boulevard
 F5 ⌂ 75006, 75007 St-Michel to St-Germain-des- 4 '
EXPERIENCE Paris: The Left Bank Sorbonne, Maubert- 3 " -  F5 ⌂ 3 pl St-Germain-
q Solférino, rue du Bac,
Prés, with its café culture.
St-Germain-des-Prés,
Mabillon, Odéon, Cluny-La
St-Germain-des-Prés
Mutualité
des-Prés 75006 q St-
Ecole Nationale
The most celebrated street
Germain-des-Prés # 9am–
Supérieure des
on the Left Bank slinks across
8pm Mon, 8:30am–8pm
Beaux-Arts
three districts from the Île
Tue–Sat ∑ eglise-sgp.org
St-Louis to Pont de la Concorde.
 F4 ⌂ 14 rue Bonaparte
The oldest church in Paris
Its architecture is the result
of Baron Hauss mann’s bold
Prés # Public Open House
strokes of urban planning, but
to house holy relics. It grew
days during Jun & Jul,
into a powerful Benedictine
it encompasses a wide range
check website for details
abbey, was rebuilt in the 11th
of lifestyles. 75006 q St-Germain-des- originated in 542 as a basilica
∑ beaux artsparis.fr
century, was mostly destroyed
The main French school of by fire in 1794, and was fully
INSIDER TIP fine arts has an enviable restored in the 1800s. One of
Macaron Mecca position at the corner of rue the three original towers sur-
Sample the city’s most Bonaparte and the riverside vives, with one of France’s old-
innovative macarons, quai Malaquais. It is housed est belfries. The interior is a
such as chestnut-rose, in several buildings, the most mix of styles, with 6th-century
white truffle-hazelnut, imposing being the 19th- marble columns, Gothic vault-
and raspberry-lychee, century Palais des Etudes. ing, Romanesque arches and
at Pierre Hermé’s flag- A host of budding French 19th-century frescos. Tours
ship patisserie, on rue and foreign painters and take place between September
Bonaparte (www. architects have crossed the and June at 3pm on Tuesdays,
pierreherme.com). courtyard, which contains a Thursdays and the third
17th-century chapel, to learn Sunday of each month.

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