Instant Cities: Paris

Instant Paris BETA

Explore or race by bike, on foot or on horseback along the Seine!

Ride through the middle of Paris in 3D, past Notre-Dame, the Sainte-Chapelle, the Pont Neuf and the Rue de Rivoli, with every building from OpenStreetMap.

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What there is to do

The real Paris

Wander among about 5,500 buildings rebuilt in 3D from OpenStreetMap: a first piece of the centre, with more of the city to come.

Around the Île de la Cité

See Notre-Dame, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Pont Neuf on the island, cross to the Hôtel de Ville and the Rue de Rivoli on the right bank, and ride on to the Louvre at the edge.

A race: Île de la Cité

Race from the Hôtel de Ville over the Seine to Notre-Dame, along the island’s quays to the Pont Neuf and back down the Rue de Rivoli.

This is Paris

Paris is the capital of France and, with its suburbs, the largest city in the European Union. It grew from a small island in the Seine into the seat of the French kings, the stage of the Revolution and the city that Baron Haussmann rebuilt with wide boulevards in the 19th century. Today people come for its museums, its cathedral and its cafés, and for the views along the river.

  • Notre-Dame, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower
  • The Seine with its stone bridges and the booksellers’ green boxes along the quays
  • Haussmann’s boulevards, lined with cream stone buildings and grey zinc roofs
  • Cafés with their terraces on the pavement, bakeries, croissants and the baguette

About the city

Where Paris lies in France Avignon Paris
Paris in France, of which it is the capital.

Places, elements and landmarks

Eiffel TowerGustave Eiffel’s iron tower on the Champ de Mars, built for the World’s Fair of 1889 and the symbol of Paris ever since. Notre-DameThe Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, begun in 1163 and open again since the fire of 2019. Sainte-ChapelleLouis IX’s royal chapel of 1248, its walls almost all stained glass. LouvreA royal palace turned into the world’s most visited museum, with the glass pyramid in its courtyard. Pont NeufThe “new bridge”, which is in fact the oldest bridge still standing across the Seine in Paris. Hôtel de VilleThe city hall of Paris, on this spot since 1357 and rebuilt after the Commune burned it in 1871. ConciergerieA medieval royal palace on the island, later the prison where Marie-Antoinette awaited the guillotine. Tour Saint-JacquesA lone Gothic bell tower, all that remains of a church on the pilgrims’ road to Santiago. Centre PompidouThe museum of modern art with its pipes, ducts and escalators on the outside, opened in 1977.

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Famous art in Paris

Mona LisaLeonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–1519 The Wedding at CanaPaolo Veronese, 1563 The Raft of the MedusaThéodore Géricault, 1818–1819 Liberty Leading the PeopleEugène Delacroix, 1830 Venus de MiloProbably Alexandros of Antioch, c. 150–125 BC Winged Victory of SamothraceUnknown Greek sculptor, c. 190 BC The Virgin of the RocksLeonardo da Vinci, c. 1483–1486 The Oath of the HoratiiJacques-Louis David, 1784 La Grande OdalisqueJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1814 The Coronation of NapoleonJacques-Louis David, 1805–1807

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