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Plan your Thursday :

You are an English-speaking student who wants to say that he knows everything of Paris, and who will have visited the inescapable places of the capital? Here is a day to spend a pleasant moment in the French capital.
Watch out, you will be surprised by all that this city can offer.

No matter if you are in town since a few days or wherever you’ve just arrived, if you followed our advices or if you get ready to follow them, here is an example of day completed in Paris.

What do you think about a day around 3 districts (the 5th, the 6th and the 14th ) ? This day is perfect to associate visit, relaxation and discovery. It will be mainly centered around the garden and the palace of the Luxembourg, the Pantheon and the district Montparnasse.

Our team made you a program rich and optimized for a maximum of profit. The goal is to take as least as possible transport to cross the city. So the activities are situated in the same geographical area. To start the day, if you want to take advantage of the city and the Parisian cafés, give up the breakfast of your hotel and go out to the first café you see. Plunge into the French spirit with the warm croissant and the hot chocolate or the café.

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Appointment at the Pantheon near 10 am.

This leader of work of the architect Soufflot is situated right in the heart of the Latin Quarter.

This monument strives to honor great men who marked the history of France. You have to count between 45 minutes and 1:30 hours to visit the site.

Some information:

  • Closed the 1st of January, 1st of May and the 25th of December.
  • Prices : between 4,50 € and 7,50 €

Then, walk in the Latin Quarter. If you want, you can go to the Jardin des plantes, in the East of the Panthéon (you can walk if it’s sunny to take advantage of the Quarter, or you can use the underground if it’s rainy). The entrances of parks are free, except for the Parc Alpin (2 €) and for the Grandes Serres (between 4 and 6 €).

To continue, there are two possibilities:

  • You can picnic in the Jardin du Luxembourg, if you’re lucky with the sun, surrounded by musicians on the lawn, and then you can visit the Palais du Luxembourg.

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  • You can also eat in a restaurant in the area. There are a lot! Then you can go to the Jardin and the Palais du Luxembourg.

For the Palais du Luxembourg, we suggest you to surf on the Internet to know the exposition of the moment with the dates and the hours.

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To continue, walk in the Quarter, to take advantage of the city.

Finally, appointment in Montparnasse, where you will admire the tower and then eat some crêpes in one of the creperies of the area to end the day in beauty and in an original way. 

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It is a perfect Thursday in Paris !

How to go

Panthéon :

Métro : line 10, stations Maubert-Mutualité and Cardinal-Lemoine
Bus : lines 21, 27, 38, 82, 84, 85, 89
RER : line B, station Luxembourg

Jardin des plantes :

Bus : Lines 24, 57, 61, 63, 67, 89 and 91.
Batobus : Jardin des Plantes.
Metro, RER : line 5 Austerlitz – line 7 Censier Daubenton – line 10 Jussieu or Austerlitz – RER C.
Gare SNCF : Gare d’Austerlitz and Gare de Lyon.

Jardin du Luxembourg :

Métro : Odéon, RER : station Luxembourg

Bus : 21, 27, 38, 58, 82, 83, 84, 85, 89

Palais du Luxembourg :

RER : line B, to Luxembourg (exit Jardin du Luxembourg)

Metro : line 4, to Saint Sulpice; line 10, to Mabillon
Bus : lines 58, 84, 89, to Luxembourg ; Lines 63,70, 87, 86, 93, to Saint Sulpice

Plan : few tickets for the underground or if you don’t want, plan to walk.

Budget : between 20 and 60 euros

Map :

http://www.plan-metro-paris.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/metro-paris.gif

For more information :

http://www.senat.fr/visite/jardin/infos_pratiques.html

http://www.museeduluxembourg.fr/en/infos-pratiques/acces/

http://www.jardindesplantes.net/venir-au-jardin/acces-horaires-et-tarifs#paragraph-1

http://pantheon.monuments-nationaux.fr/

A.O.

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