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Paris Weekend Guide

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Forty-eight hours of cafés, markets, bals and people — Paris as its residents share it.

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  1. Saturday morning: the market and the canal
  2. Saturday afternoon: squares and slow looking
  3. Saturday evening: a table and a dance
  4. Sunday: Montmartre steps and a picnic
  5. Continue online

1. Saturday morning: the market and the canal

Start where Parisians start — a neighbourhood market, bread from the queue that looks longest, and a walk along the Canal Saint-Martin where the footbridges and locks set a slower pace.

Tip: Markets finish around lunchtime; arrive before 11:00.

Market-to-pot cookingThings to do togetherNeighbourhood history walkThings to do together
Runners streaming along the Seine in the Paris Marathon
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Parc des Buttes-ChaumontCliffs, a temple on the lake and the city's best picnic lawns.Place

2. Saturday afternoon: squares and slow looking

The Marais and the Place des Vosges reward people who sit down. Choose one museum room, not a whole museum, and look for twenty minutes.

Tip: Many national museums are free on the first Sunday of certain months — check the museum's own site.

Museum slow lookingThings to do togetherArchitecture sketch walkThings to do together
Visitors looking over Paris through the clock window of the Musée d'Orsay
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Place des VosgesThe oldest planned square in Paris — arcades and shaded gravel.PlaceMusée du LouvreThe world's most visited museum — best seen one work at a time.Place

3. Saturday evening: a table and a dance

Belleville and the Buttes-Chaumont slopes are where long tables, guinguettes and bals happen in warm months.

Tip: Join a supper club or a Cercle dinner — you will not eat alone.

Guinguette dance afternoonThings to do togetherLong table of the streetThings to do together
Runners streaming along the Seine in the Paris Marathon
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Parc des Buttes-ChaumontCliffs, a temple on the lake and the city's best picnic lawns.Place

4. Sunday: Montmartre steps and a picnic

Climb early before the crowds, then come down the quieter side streets for a picnic with people you met the night before.

Tip: Métro and walking beat any car in Paris; buy a reusable card.

Sunrise on the hillThings to do togetherOpen-air sketch sessionThings to do together
Crowds at the Montmartre harvest festival in Paris
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Steps of the Sacré-CœurThe city's open-air amphitheatre at sunset.Place

5. Continue online

Every place in this guide has a page with events this week, people going and Cercles that meet nearby.

People working at the fab lab of the Cité des Sciences in Paris
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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  • Saturday morning: the market and the canal
  • Saturday afternoon: squares and slow looking
  • Saturday evening: a table and a dance
  • Sunday: Montmartre steps and a picnic