Give your Paris trip a regal feel by sweeping through the historic park between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde. Tread in the dainty footsteps of Marie-Antoinette and see where Napoléon built his triumphal arch.

This melting pot of theatre, cinema and art is bedecked with cafe hangouts and has a number of cost-free attractions, including an ever-changing photography exhibition. Grab some dark sunglasses and a notepad and join the throng of arty intellectuals that frequent this hub of French culture.

A railroad track with a floral makeover, this elevated walkway offers superb views and allows you to sidle through lush green archways high above the city crowds. This charming 4.5km pathway runs through most of the 12th arrondissement and you can join it from Avenue Daumesnil near the Bastille métro stop.

A stroll along the streets of Belleville, a district with a history of rebellion and multicultural flair, is certain to fire the imagination. Belleville’s bustling Chinatown and artist residents make it a lively place to explore. Wander up Rue de Belleville to see where tragic chanteuse Edith Piaf is said to have been born under a street lamp, then meander south into Parc de Belleville.  Don’t leave without taking in some of the district’s many art studios and galleries.

The 2nd-century Roman amphitheatre Lutetia Arena once sat around 10,000 people for gladiatorial combats and other events. Found by accident in 1869 when rue Monge was under construction, it’s now used by locals playing football and, especially, boules and pétanque .

West of the Centre Pompidou main building, this reconstruction of the studio of Romanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) designed by Renzo Piano contains some 160 examples of the sculptor’s work.

Opened in 1824, Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris’ second largest after Père Lachaise, sprawls over 19 hectares shaded by 1200 trees, including maples, ash, lime trees and conifers. Among its illustrious ‘residents’ are poet Charles Baudelaire, writer Guy de Maupassant, playwright Samuel Beckett, sculptor Constantin Brancusi, painter Chaim Soutine, photographer Man Ray, industrialist André Citroën, Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the infamous affair, actress Jean Seberg, and philosopher-writer couple Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as singer Serge Gainsbourg. Free maps are available from the conservation office.

This quirky park is one of the city’s largest green spaces; its landscaped slopes hide grottoes, waterfalls, a lake and even an island topped with a temple to Sybil. Once a gypsum quarry and rubbish dump, it was given its present form by Baron Haussmann in time for the opening of the 1867 Exposition Universelle.
It’s a favourite with Parisians, who come here to practise tai chi, take the kids to a puppet show or simply to relax with a bottle of wine and a picnic dinner. The tracks of an abandoned 19th-century railway line (La Petite Ceinture, which once circled Paris) also run through the park.

This enormous museum, subtitled Histoire de Paris (History of Paris), is housed in two hôtels particuliers : the mid-16th-century Renaissance-style Hôtel Carnavalet and the late-17th-century Hôtel Le Peletier de St-Fargeau.
Displays chart the history of Paris from the Gallo-Roman period to modern times on the 1st floor and fill more than 100 rooms. Some of the nation’s most important documents, paintings and other objects from the French Revolution are here; so are Georges Fouquet’s stunning art nouveau jewellery shop from the rue Royale and Marcel Proust’s cork-lined bedroom from his apartment on bd Haussmann, where he wrote most of the 7350-page literary cycle À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time).

Crowning the Butte de Montmartre (Montmartre Hill), Sacred Heart Basilica was built from contributions pledged by Parisian Catholics as an act of contrition after the humiliating Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. Construction began in 1876, but the basilica was not consecrated until 1919. In a way, atonement here has never stopped; a perpetual prayer ‘cycle’ that began at the consecration of the Basilica continues round the clock to this day.
Some 234 spiralling steps lead you to the basilica’s dome , which affords one of Paris’ most spectacular panoramas – up to 30km on a clear day. Weighing in at 19 tonnes, the bell called La Savoyarde in the tower above is the largest in France. The chapel-lined crypt , visited in conjunction with the dome, is huge.
If you don’t want to walk the hill, you can use a regular metro ticket aboard the funicular.

Smaller but more central than Paris’ other flea markets, rummage through boxes of clothes and accessories worn decades ago, as well as assorted bric-a-brac.

The permanent collection at the city’s modern-art museum displays works representative of just about every major artistic movement of the 20th and nascent 21st centuries: Fauvism, cubism, Dadaism, and so on up through video installations. While it merits a wander – you’ll find works by Modigliani, Matisse, Braque and Soutine here – the permanent collection is not quite at the level of the Centre Pompidou.
There is one jewel of a room though, containing several gorgeous canvases from Dufy and Bonnard. The main reason for a trip here is to check out one of the cutting-edge temporary exhibits.

The world’s most visited cemetery, Père Lachaise (named after a confessor of Louis XIV) opened its one-way doors in 1804. Its 69,000 ornate, even ostentatious, tombs of the rich and/or famous form a verdant, 44-hectare sculpture garden. Among those buried here are composer Chopin; playwright Molière; poet Apollinaire; writers Balzac, Proust, Gertrude Stein and Colette; actors Sarah Bernhardt and Yves Montand; painters Pissarro, Seurat, Modigliani and Delacroix; chanteuse Édith Piaf; and dancer Isadora Duncan.
Particularly visited graves are those of Oscar Wilde, interred in division 89 in 1900, and 1960s rock star Jim Morrison, who died in a flat at 17–19 rue Beautreillis (4e) in the Marais in 1971 and is buried in division 6.

Running southeast from the Eiffel Tower, the grassy Champ de Mars was originally used as a parade ground for the cadets of the 18th-century École Militaire , the vast, French-classical building at the southeastern end of the park, which counts none other than Napoleon Bonaparte among its graduates. The wonderful steel-and-etched glass Wall for Peace memorial (2000) facing the academy and the statue of Maréchal Joffre (1870–1931) are by Clara Halter.
Today it’s the ideal spot for a summer picnic. Pick up some bread, cheese and wine on nearby rue Cler (about a 20-minute walk) and you’re all set to enjoy one of the most memorable meals in Paris. Also here are puppet shows .

This vast flea market, founded in the late 19th century and said to be Europe’s largest, has more than 2500 stalls grouped into a dozen marchés (market areas), each with its own speciality (eg Paul Bert for 17th-century furniture, Malik for clothing, Biron for Asian art). There are miles upon miles of ‘freelance’ stalls; come prepared to spend some time.

This is the heart of Paris – so much so that distances from Paris to every part of metropolitan France are measured from place du Parvis Notre Dame , the square in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris. A bronze star across the street from the cathedral’s main entrance marks the exact location of point zéro des routes de France .
Notre Dame, the most visited unticketed site in Paris, with upwards of 14 million people crossing its threshold a year, is not just a masterpiece of French Gothic architecture; it was also the focus of Catholic Paris for seven centuries.
Built on a site occupied by earlier churches and, a millennium before that, a Gallo-Roman temple, it was begun in 1163 according to the design of Bishop Maurice de Sully and largely completed by the early 14th century. The cathedral was badly damaged during the Revolution; architect Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc carried out extensive renovations between 1845 and 1864. The cathedral is on a very grand scale; the interior alone is 130m long, 48m wide and 35m high and can accommodate more than 6000 worshippers.

Hundertwasserhaus is a rare apartment house in the 3rd district of Vienna with a roof covered with the earth, grass and bushes and with large trees on balcony and inside the rooms - an unique living space honoring both the natural world and  maybe architecture of the future ...

Burgtheater (Imperial Court Theater) built 1748 and fprmer known as K.K. Theater an der Burg or later as K.K. Hofburgtheater is the Austrian National Theater in Vienna today. It is one of the most important German language theatres in the world.

Kunsthistorisches Museum is one of the oldiest museums of the fine arts and decorative arts in the world and it houses one of the most important art collections in the world - known is mainly the Bruegel picture collection. Also masterpieces by Caravaggio, Lucas Cranach, Anton van  Dyck,  Il Guernico,  Dürer, Giorgione, Hans Holbein, Raffael, Rembrandt, Guido Reni, Rubens, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Titian, Velasquez, Veronese, Fetti, Vermeer van Delf, Canaletto, Correggio etc you can see here.

St. Charles´s Church built in Baroque Rococo style was completed 1737 on behalf of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor The building of the church had started after a great plaques epidemic in 1713  with 9000 victimes in Vienna. It was dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo - a healer for plaque sufferers.