Paris itinerary — 1 days

The Eglise Saint-Severin is a Catholic church with Flamboyant Gothic elements, built in the 13th century.

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre Sorbonne sits in the heart of Paris's Latin Quarter.

A garden laid out by Marie de' Medici in 1612 around the palace where the Senate now sits: French formality and English informality, the ivy-clad Medici fountain, an orangery and a bee apiary. Parisians play tennis and chess here, children sail toy boats on the octagonal basin — the ease that taught Europe's parks.

A neoclassical masterpiece crowning the Latin Quarter, designed by Jacques-Germain Soufflot as the Church of Saint Genevieve before the French Revolution transformed it into a secular mausoleum. Beneath its 83-metre dome swings Foucault's Pendulum, famously demonstrating the Earth's rotation, while the crypt holds the tombs of French icons including Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, and Marie Curie.

France's primary botanical garden, founded in 1626 by Louis XIII's physician as a royal medicinal herb garden and opened to the public in 1640. Spanning 28 hectares along the Seine's Left Bank, it holds thousands of plant species across landscaped rose beds, an alpine garden, and historic trees including a 1734 Lebanon cedar. The grounds also host grand 19th-century art deco greenhouses and the National Museum of Natural History.