The new 2024 StreetSmart (R) Paris maps all top attractions including museums, monuments, hotels, major architecture, shopping and more all at a highly legible scale of 1:12,500, complete with 3-D building illustrations. Clear information design allows users to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. The map is film-laminated, waterproof and easily fits into pocket or purse.

Contents: Paris Street Map 1:12,500; Paris Overview map: 1:200,000; Paris Metro Map; Dimensions: 4 x 36 (10 cm x 91 cm) open, 4 x 9 (10 cm x 22 cm) closed.

StreetSmart (R) Paris is so legible you will understand how the Champs des Elysees connects with Champs de Mars, Bois de Boulogne with Belleville, Catacombs with Cimetiere Pere Lachaise, Les Halles with La Defense, Quartier Latin with Luxemburg, Montmartre with Montparnasse, Marais with St Germain des Pres and Canal St Martin. StreetSmart Paris Paris is unique in many ways. It was Emperor Napoleon III who in 1853 commissioned Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann to reinvent the city with new infrastructure and Grand Boulevards cutting through blighted medieval neighborhoods to create the new City of Light. This map shows the plan with Metro stops by line right on the street map. So you can easily understand the local detail in context and see the entire system in an overview map for God's perspective.

Paris is the city of the Flaneur the ambivalent drifter who wanders the citys Grand Boulevards looking for chance encounters of the literary and erotic kind. Park benches are said to be spaced in 500 m intervals to encourage Flaneurie.

Walter Benjamin, the culture critic, elevated this gastronomy of the eye into the academy channeling the poetry of Baudelaire. The Situationist movement of the 1950s added the idea of psycho-geography an exploration of the city through drifting described as a toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities to create new realities through maps.

Paris is saturated with excellent museum exhibits this winter: Check out the new Bourse de Commerce which houses the Pinault Collection. StreetSmart Paris Every Sunday from 9 am until 1:30 pm, the air on Boulevard Raspail, between the Rue Cherche-Midi and Rue de Rennes, fills with the tantalizing smell of sauteing onions. It is the onion galettes - shredded onion, potato and cheese (2.50 euros)- frying at one of the dozens of stands at the Marche Biologique Raspail. This organic market has been a neighborhood jewel for 26 years. A new wave of affordable comfort food dining options with three-course meals for 20 Euros in 30 minutes is taking Paris by storm. It is a revival of the Bouillon working-class restaurants that thrived during the 19th C and an affirmation of Gallic identity.

Here are six establishments worth trying: Bouillon Julien at 16 Faubourg St Denis, Bouillon Pigalle, 22 Blvd de Clichy, Aux Bons Crus, 54 Rue Godefroy Cavaignac, Buffet, 8 rue de la Main d Or, Le Cadoret, 1 rue Pradier, Cafe du Coin, 9 Rue Camille Desmoulins. StreetSmart Paris map is updated twice a year and most current. Its film lamination is extra durable and will last for your next trip. Simplicity reigns supreme to make complex cities clear and understandable.

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Book Information
ISBN 9781934395530
Author Stephan Van Dam
Imprint StreetSmart Maps
Publisher VanDam