Saint Germain des Prés Walking Tour in Paris
- 1h 45m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Step into the Paris you have seen on screen. Explore the ancient church, legendary cafés, artistic landmarks, literary streets, and Revolution-era passageways of Saint-Germain-des-Prés with stories grounded in what guests can see along the route. There is a reason filmmakers, writers, artists, and dreamers return to Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its café terraces, stone façades, intimate squares, galleries, and narrow streets have helped shape the world’s image of Paris. Starting outside the Église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, your local guide connects the neighborhood’s long history to the writers, painters, philosophers, publishers, revolutionaries, and filmmakers who used these streets as a workplace, meeting place, subject, or stage.
Inclusions
What's included
- Receive recommendations for cafés, restaurants, bookstores, galleries, and local boutiques.
- Discover the Paris that has inspired filmmakers, writers, painters, and philosophers.
- Learn about artists such as Picasso and writers such as Hemmingway and Balzac
- Guided Tour of Saint-Germain-des-Prés with an expert, local tour guide
- Begin at one of Paris’s oldest surviving religious sites
What's not
- Meals
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Entrance to cafés, museums, or paid attractions
- Personal purchases
- Gratuities
Itinerary
Meet outside the church. When open, you will be able to enjoy a short independent look inside.
Learn about the legendary café. Explore writers and artists, such as Hemmingway and Picasso, learning how they used cafés such as this.
Learn all about this café and its place in Saint-Germain.
See fragments connected with the former abbey and sculptures linked to Picasso.
Experience the transition from a busy boulevard to an intimate square. Museum entry is not included.
Discover Saint-Germain's publishing and artistic culture.
Move through the narrow passage while learning about Marat’s presses, Tobias Schmidt’s work on the guillotine, Danton’s former home, and the surrounding culture of revolutionary ideas.
Finish at a precise, recognizable landmark on Place Henri-Mondor.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Meet outside the Église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Your guide will be holding a blue “Epic Tours” sign.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 25 travellers
- Operated by
- Epic Tours
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Paris
- Its from-price is 78% below the median of the 4664 experiences we list in Paris.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Paris
Paris pairs grand boulevards and riverside monuments with café terraces, art collections of global stature and neighbourhoods that feel like villages.
The Seine runs through the heart of the city, past the Île de la Cité with Notre-Dame and the Sainte-Chapelle, the long façade of the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay in its former railway station. Downriver, the Eiffel Tower rises over the Champ de Mars, and the Arc de Triomphe crowns the Champs-Élysées.
Top-ranked sights in Paris: Louvre Museum, Eiffel Tower, 4th Arrondissement.
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