Île de la Cité Tour: Paris's Historic Heart

Explore Notre Dame and Paris’s historic center with a local guide. Discover Gothic architecture, charming streets, and the grandeur of the Louvre.

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris - Discover the fascinating history and ongoing restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, a quintessential emblem of Paris. Delve into its centuries-old heritage, resilience, and cultural importance. Observe the careful restoration efforts following the 2019 fire, as skilled artisans strive to maintain its enduring beauty….
What's Included
  • Guiding service
What's Not Included
  • Entrance Ticket to the Cathedral
Additional Information

The tour starts on Île de la Cité, the historic core of Paris. Participants will wander through its medieval streets, discovering its evolution from a Roman settlement to the city’s birthplace. Highlights include the Conciergerie, where Marie Antoinette was held captive, and Sainte-Chapelle, famous for its stunning stained-glass windows. As the tour…

Location
Cité
Your guide will be waiting in front of the metro Cite(line 4) They will have sign " BonBon Tours"
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Passport792020
Mar 27, 2025
The Best Tour with Tanmari - Tamari was AMAZING! Her knowledge and enthusiasm was beyond expectations! Please do this tour with her! Our next tour of the day is at the Louvre, and truly wish she was our guide!
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Friskyshad
Mar 19, 2025
Notre Dame - Nika was a fantastic guide for our tour. He is very knowledgeable, friendly, and really added to our experience. Please ask for him in f you take this tour. We highly recommend!
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233leonieb
Mar 17, 2025
Wonderful tour of Notre Dame. Thank you Nika - Private tour with Nika. What an enjoyable afternoon tour of Notre Dame. Highly informative and interesting. Nika was warm, welcoming and managed to share endless interesting insights in the the history and current affairs of France and Notre Dame, without it ever feeling like a lecture. Highly recommended+++. Thank you
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Rolandgt5956ne
Mar 15, 2025
A good choice to learn details about Notre Dame - Pierre was a very good guide and we have learned a lot of details of Notre Dame and other interesting things of Paris. Nice guy, thanks very much.
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Johnf3839
Jan 17, 2025
Fun tour with Adrien - Had a tour with Adrien, was great to see Notre Dame and Adrien was great fun, catering the tour to us, giving interesting snippets throughout, and let me have space to take photos.
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Majdghanayem
Jan 2, 2025
The City of Paris - Ife was a great tour guide. Great experience great time. Great tour guide. Would recommend 100%. Request Ife to be your guide.
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Dream16546452644
Dec 30, 2024
Ife, not in doubt! - Superb! Ife, our guide for the 2 hour trip, was great. His knowledge and charisma were indefatigable, even in the cold. Thank you, Ife!
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Alice_h
Feb 26, 2025
Not quite what I thought - I honestly thought I had signed up for a tour of Notre Dame, understanding that we would not go INSIDE, but that we would learn a lot about the outside. That was only somewhat true. So I think a better description might be useful to others. Denise was quite knowledgeable, but I would have liked the whole tour to be focused only on ND. She did tell me one very useful thing--that I could attend the Mass either that evening (Sat. night of tour day) or Sunday morning in order to get inside without standing in a huge line. I did that, and was glad I got to go inside Sunday morning and see all the work done so far to restore the church. Beautiful! So thanks Denise for that little tip, but really I would have liked a different tour.
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Elaine_m
Jan 5, 2025
Nice little tour to begin your day - Our guide was great, he really knew a lot about the cathedral and surroundings, but just so you know to go in the cathedral is free, it is a working church, you don’t pay to go inside, and they can’t have any tour inside, so you are really on your own. You have rough 10 minutes to walk around and meet at the exit for more walking outside and the tour ends at the Luvre entrance. We had a great time.
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Nanyan
Jan 5, 2025
no need to book this experience unless you really want a local tour guide - there is no reason to book this guide. you can simply visit Notre Dame when they visit - the queue is no different. we went there at 7:30, before they opened at 8 and got in not long after and was able to attend mass.
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