Travel Dispatch: Paris, From Another Angle

Travel Dispatch: Paris, From Another Angle

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Travel Dispatch

September 10, 2025

Paris, layered as mille-feuille, can be overwhelming to navigate. It may be helpful to come at just a slice of it. Spend a day just exploring its bridges, immersing in French Revolution sites, or following in the footsteps of your favorite author.

An illustration shows a scene on the Seine River in Paris. Boats are moored along the banks, and a woman stands on the deck of one, her back to the viewer, as she looks out over the scene before her: a narrow stone bridge, trees, stately buildings, the river itself, and in the distance, the Eiffel Tower rising up beneath a sky with billowing gray clouds.

Victoria Tentler-Krylov

Sleep in a riverboat on the Seine →

A very long complex of centuries-old, white stone buildings with pitched gray roofs lines a river in Paris. On a pedestrian bridge leading to that waterway, some young women are taking selfies.

Take a self-guided walking tour through the French Revolution →

A room in an ornate 19th-century mansion is filled with Asian curios, some in glass display cases scattered around the room, which has a very high arched doorway that leads to another room where chandeliers dangle and blurred objects can be glimpsed on the wall and elsewhere. Three people examine the exhibits, including a woman who is peering closely into one of the glass display cases.

Discover three museums many Parisians don’t know about →

Agnes Dherbeys for The New York Times

Follow in James Baldwin’s footsteps in the City of Lights →

Explore the city’s Arabic food, culture and history →

Joann Pai for The New York Times

Know Paris through its bridges →

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