Wartime Paris: Private WWII History Tour

Itinerary
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Stop At: Eglise Saint-Paul Saint-Louis, 99 rue Saint Antoine, 75004 Paris France

Meet your private guide just outside the "Saint Paul" metro station on line N°1.Your tour starts in the heart of the historic Marais district

Duration: 15 minutes

Pass By: Le Marais 3e Arrondissement, 75003 Paris France

Your private guide will explain the events leading up to the German invasion of France. Once the stage has been set you’ll make your way past key buildings and hidden details that reveal the story of life in occupied Paris

Stop At: Memorial De La Shoah, 17 rue Geoffroy L Asnier, 75004 Paris France

A walk through the Jewish quarter will be the perfect setting for tales of deportation and the bleak reality of the final destination: Auschwitz. You’ll stop at Paris’s Holocaust museum

Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: Ile de la Cite, 75001 Paris France

Before crossing the bridges of the Seine to Notre Dame Cathedral and Ile de la Cité.

Pass By: Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, 6 Parvis Notre-Dame Place Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris France

Next stop will be iconic buildings where the war’s key battles were

won

Pass By: Prefecture de Police de Paris, 1 rue de Lutece Place Louis Lépine, 75004 Paris France

And lost like Notre Dame Cathedral, the Paris Préfecture,

Pass By: Conciergerie, 2 Boulevard du Palais, 75001 Paris, France

And the Conciergerie, one of the oldest palace of Ile de la Cité.

Pass By: Pont-Neuf, Ile de la Cite, 75001 Paris France

Your guide will introduce you to the famed story of the Monuments Men, and a different sort of liberation: this time the stolen artwork across Europe

Pass By: 1st Arrondissement, Paris France

To conclude you’ll contemplate the harrowing final days of the Occupation, including Hitler’s orders to destroy the city and the arrival of the Allied Forces just in the nick of time…

The 3-hour tour ends at the Pont Neuf Bridge around 6 pm.