Paris Landmarks Guided Walking Tour with Sacré-Cœur Entry

Cover Paris's top sights in a half-day tour by foot and metro with an expert local guide.

Getting started

Meet your expert guide at the designated starting point and get a brief overview of the half-day tour by foot and metro. Your guide explains how the Paris Metro segments fit into the route so you can purchase your own transportation ticket as needed. Once everyone is ready, you set off toward the first major Paris landmark together.

What to expect

Sacre Coeur

Perched above the city, Sacre Coeur is your first major stop and the only church you enter on this route.

Features

• Go inside Sacre Coeur and take time to look at its architecture from the interior, before stepping outside to see how the white facade stands out over Paris.
• Here your guided tour of major Paris landmarks begins in earnest, with your local guide setting the tone for the half-day walking tour by explaining how Montmartre connects to the rest of the city.
• This is also where you start to hear the stories and fun facts from your guide, helping you understand why Sacre Coeur features among the best landmarks and sights in Paris.

Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is your next headline stop, viewed up close to appreciate its structure and central role in the city.

Features

• Walk to a viewpoint where you can see the Eiffel Tower up close, giving you a clear sense of its scale and lattice design from ground level.
• Your professional guide continues the guided tour of major landmarks here, pointing out how the tower orients you within Paris and linking it to other places you visit on the route.
• This section of the half-day walking tour by foot and metro showcases how easy it is to move between top sights using the Paris Metro, with your guide leading the way while you use your own transportation ticket.

Notre Dame

Notre Dame appears on your route as a key historic landmark on the island at the heart of Paris.

Features

• Move to the area around Notre Dame to view the cathedral up close, focusing on its exterior details and its position beside the river.
• At this stop your expert guide shares more stories and fun facts, using Notre Dame to highlight some of the best bits of Parisian history and architecture that you can see from the outside.
• The visit to Notre Dame keeps the pace of the half-day tour steady, balancing walking sections with metro connections so you can cover more ground than a walking-only route.

Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe forms the final major landmark of your experience, closing the loop on the city's grand avenues.

Features

• Arrive near the Arc de Triomphe to view this monument up close and see how it anchors one end of a major Paris thoroughfare.
• Your guide uses this stop to tie together the guided tour of major Paris landmarks, connecting the Arc de Triomphe with Sacre Coeur, the Eiffel Tower, and Notre Dame that you have already visited.
• This last segment features some of the most memorable stories and fun facts from your guide, rounding off the visits to Sacre Coeur, Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, and Arc de Triomphe as a single, coherent route through Paris.