Discover majestic Paris – the Opera, the grands magasins department stores, and elegant private mansions. On the Right Bank of the river Seine, discover majestic Paris as designed by Baron Haussmann on this walk that takes you from the Opera and Paris’s world-famous department stores along the broad boulevards and prestigious avenues with their elegant apartment buildings and private mansions. From the Palais Garnier opera to the Monceau plain, see how Second Empire Paris has remained relatively untouched and soak up French art de vivre – the opera, shopping, gastronomy and museums. The Haussmann buildings lining the boulevards are richly decorated, and some of the finest mansions are now museums, where you can get a glimpse of 19th-century Paris. The walk starts at the Opéra metro station (lines 3, 7 and 8).
