The Marais of Bridges, Baroque, and the Seine

The stops

1. 01
   Pont Marie

   One of Paris’s oldest bridges, it offers an intimate Seine viewpoint and a reminder that the river crossing itself is part of the city’s historic urban fabric.

2. 02
   Château de la Tournelle

   The Château de la Tournelle began as a medieval riverside tower guarding Paris’s eastern approach, reminding us that the Seine was once a defensive frontier rather than a romantic promenade.

3. 03
   Jardin Tino-Rossi (1980)

   Opened in 1980, Jardin Tino-Rossi represents a modern layer added directly onto ancient riverbanks, transforming an industrial quay into an open-air sculpture garden.

4. 04
   Pont de Sully

   Pont de Sully marks a strategic crossing aligned with the former city walls, reinforcing how bridges structured Paris’s growth.

5. 05
   Île Louviers

   Île Louviers was long used as a massive timber depot, where firewood floated downstream and was stacked to heat Parisian homes.

6. 06
   Place des Vosges

   The route begins in Paris’s model of aristocratic urban planning: a formal royal square whose arcades, symmetry, and enclosed garden shaped the Marais as a place of prestige and public strolling.

7. 07
   Hôtel de Sully

   This grand townhouse embodies the Marais’s civic-palace culture: aristocratic architecture, courtyard theater, and the preservation of historic fabric now linked to national heritage stewardship.

8. 08
   Église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis

   A landmark of Baroque sacred architecture in the Marais, it links grand ecclesiastical design to the district’s layered religious and civic history.

9. 09
   Hôtel de Sens

   A rare surviving medieval-aristocratic residence, it reveals the older civic and noble fabric that survived into the modern city and gives the Marais its architectural depth.

10. 10
    Quai des Célestins

    A classic riverfront promenade that captures the postcard relationship between Paris and the Seine. The quay offers the historic urban vista of stone, water, bridges, and skyline that defines the city’s image.

The narration at every stop is in the app — this is the map of where it takes you, with a line on each stop.