The Perfect Trip to Paris in 5 Days
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The brightest jewel of France's royal past is undoubtedly the Palace of Versailles (Château de Versailles in French). Once home to kings and queens of France, the palace is perhaps the most extravagant and beautiful in Europe.
In Versailles, you can walk through the halls and gardens where Queen Marie Antoinette enjoyed an incredible life before meeting her famous and untimely end. Imagine yourself as a courtier attending a ball in the Hall of Mirrors and taking a stroll through the beautiful gardens.
A visit to the Palace of Versailles is one of the favorite day trips from Paris and requires some planning to make the most of the experience.
Versailles is about 16 kilometers from the center of Paris and the journey takes about two hours including the wait in line to enter. The best way to get to Versailles from Paris is by train. The nearest station to the palace is Versailles Château Rive Gauche on the C line of the regional RER train system. The train journey takes about an hour and costs 7 euros.
If you want to avoid the busiest hours with tourists, plan to arrive at 9:00 a.m., when the castle opens, and visit the main palace first and then the gardens. The busiest days are Tuesdays and weekends, so it's best to avoid them.
An advance entry ticket must be purchased. The visit inside the palace lasts about an hour and a half, and you could easily spend another 2 hours exploring the gardens and summer palaces.
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Paris is a monumental city with too many things to visit, places to see, stories to tell, and flavors to taste. How is it possible to create the perfect travel itinerary to Paris? It's not possible, but I'll do my best.
This travel itinerary is mainly intended for people arriving in Paris from a distant place like America. Although it can be done perfectly by someone traveling from Spain. Usually, trips from America arrive in Paris in the afternoon and people feel tired from the long journey.
We'll leave the first day a bit free with some suggestions, assuming you'll arrive in the afternoon and only have time from 5 pm.
I planned the second day to visit the Louvre Museum, we'll take a "quick" visit that will take between 3 and 5 hours, just enough to see the most important things. We could spend whole days at the Louvre Museum and still not finish. Then we'll take a beautiful walk to Les Invalides to see Napoleon's tomb.
The third day will be dedicated to visiting the Eiffel Tower, Champ de Mars, and Champs-Elysées with the Arc de Triomphe. But there will be surprises along the way, like the Museum of Modern Art and the Flame of Liberty.
We'll dedicate the fourth day to one of the most impressive and famous palaces in the world, the Palace of Versailles. It will take us at least the whole morning to visit. When we return, I'll suggest visiting Montmartre at sunset and the Sacred Heart Church.
On the fifth day, we'll return home! No need to cry, someday Paris will be waiting for your return so you can show it a new version of yourself and at the same time see a different version of Paris.
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