Guide To Paris City Breaks
When you have decided to take a short break in Paris, there are several things that you should do. The first thing that
you want to remember is that your city break should be full
of plans in order to fit in everything that you would like
to do, but also that you should try to do a little bit of
everything. Read more »

The 4th arrondissement located on the Right Bank of the Seine River is one of the smallest in Paris at slightly
over 0.6 square miles (1.6 square kilometers). Its
population is about thirty thousand but the district
provides more than forty thousand jobs. The Ile de la Cite
(Cite Island) was already inhabited in the First Century
B.C. by a Gallic tribe known as the Parisii who gave their
name to the city. Our first stop is world-renown, tasty,
not very high in calories, and won’t cost you a lot of
money. It’s on the magnificent Ile St-Louis one of the two
Parisian islands in the Seine. Read more »

The second arrondissement is located on the right bank of the Seine. It is the smallest arrondissement in Paris’s, less than 0.4 square miles (slightly under a square kilometer). While its population falls short of twenty thousand, this district provides over sixty thousand jobs, the highest job density in the city. It is home to all of Paris’s remaining glazed commercial arcades; pedestrian passages open at both ends with a glass and iron roof. This Parisian invention, actually an adaptation of Oriental bazaars and souks, forms a miniature city free from the noise of horse-drawn carriages, speeding taxis, and inclement weather. Remember when these arcades were built mostly in the 1820s and 1830s sidewalks were a rare commodity. In these arcades window-shopping developed into yet another Parisian art form. They evolved (degenerated) into the suburban shopping center. Make sure to visit at least one arcade to get a taste of Paris in the good old days. Read more »