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Roots Earth in Paris: audio stories about 57 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 57 places in Paris, France, in Europe. The Paris stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Paris, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 57 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: paris.md

The 57 places in Paris with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Eiffel Tower
  2. Louvre Museum
  3. Notre-Dame Cathedral
  4. Arc de Triomphe
  5. Sacré-Cœur Basilica
  6. Champs-Élysées
  7. Musée d'Orsay
  8. Sainte-Chapelle
  9. Panthéon
  10. Palais Garnier
  11. Place de la Concorde
  12. Centre Pompidou
  13. Les Invalides
  14. Luxembourg Gardens
  15. Tuileries Garden
  16. Pont Neuf
  17. Conciergerie
  18. Place Vendôme
  19. Montmartre
  20. Moulin Rouge
  21. Pont Alexandre III
  22. Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro)
  23. Hôtel de Ville (City Hall)
  24. Place des Vosges
  25. Palais-Royal
  26. Catacombs of Paris
  27. Musée Rodin
  28. Musée de l'Orangerie
  29. Grand Palais
  30. Petit Palais
  31. Picasso Museum
  32. Place de la Bastille
  33. Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
  34. La Madeleine
  35. Church of Saint-Eustache
  36. Church of Saint-Sulpice
  37. Shakespeare and Company
  38. Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
  39. Père Lachaise Cemetery
  40. Canal Saint-Martin
  41. Le Marais
  42. Latin Quarter
  43. Rue Mouffetard
  44. Marché d'Aligre
  45. Marché des Enfants Rouges
  46. Café de Flore
  47. Les Deux Magots
  48. Café Procope
  49. Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
  50. Belleville
  51. Rue Montorgueil
  52. Butte-aux-Cailles
  53. Coulée verte René-Dumont
  54. Parc Monceau
  55. Montparnasse Cemetery
  56. Saint-Ouen Flea Market
  57. Parc de la Villette

Is there an audio guide for Eiffel Tower?

Yes. Eiffel Tower has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 57 Paris places in the app, at 48.85822, 2.2945. Every one of the other 56 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Paris

Open Roots Earth and choose Paris. The city has its own map of places with all 57 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 57 places in Paris, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 57 places in Paris, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Eiffel Tower

Coordinates
48.85822, 2.2945
In one line
Gustave Eiffel's wrought-iron lattice tower, raised in just over two years for the 1889 World's Fair. Once condemned as temporary, the 330-meter landmark became the most visited paid monument on earth and the universal symbol of Paris.

2. Louvre Museum

Coordinates
48.8611, 2.3358
In one line
A medieval fortress turned royal palace turned the world's largest art museum, home to the Mona Lisa and roughly 35,000 works on display. Its glass pyramid entrance, opened in 1989, crowns eight centuries of French history.

3. Notre-Dame Cathedral

Coordinates
48.85306, 2.35
In one line
The Gothic cathedral of Paris, begun in 1163 on the Île de la Cité and restored after the devastating fire of 2019. Its twin towers, rose windows and flying buttresses have anchored French history for more than 850 years.

4. Arc de Triomphe

Coordinates
48.87378, 2.29503
In one line
Napoleon's colossal triumphal arch at the top of the Champs-Élysées, commissioned in 1806 and completed in 1836. Beneath its vault, an eternal flame burns over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, rekindled every evening since 1923.

5. Sacré-Cœur Basilica

Coordinates
48.88665, 2.34295
In one line
A gleaming white Romano-Byzantine basilica crowning the Montmartre hilltop, built between 1875 and 1914 as a national vow after the Franco-Prussian War. Its travertine stone whitens with every rainfall, and its dome surveys all of Paris.

6. Champs-Élysées

Coordinates
48.8699, 2.3076
In one line
The grandest avenue in Paris, first traced by André Le Nôtre in 1667 and stretching 1. 9 kilometers from Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe.

7. Musée d'Orsay

Coordinates
48.85997, 2.32653
In one line
A Beaux-Arts railway station of 1900 reborn in 1986 as the museum of nineteenth-century art, holding the world's richest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting beneath the glass vault of its former train hall.

8. Sainte-Chapelle

Coordinates
48.85528, 2.345
In one line
A royal chapel built by King Louis IX between about 1240 and 1248 to house the Crown of Thorns. Its upper level, a Rayonnant Gothic cage of thirteenth-century stained glass, ranks among the supreme achievements of medieval art.

9. Panthéon

Coordinates
48.84611, 2.34583
In one line
A Neoclassical landmark built between 1764 and 1790 as the church of Sainte-Geneviève, transformed by the Revolution into a mausoleum for national heroes. Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Marie Curie and Josephine Baker rest beneath its 83-meter dome.

10. Palais Garnier

Coordinates
48.87194, 2.33167
In one line
Charles Garnier's opulent opera house, built between 1861 and 1875 for Napoleon III. Its marble grand staircase, gilded foyers and seven-ton chandelier made it the model opera house of Europe and the setting of the Phantom of the Opera.

11. Place de la Concorde

Coordinates
48.86563, 2.32124
In one line
The largest square in Paris, laid out for Louis XV in the 1750s and renamed after serving as the Revolution's execution ground. A 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk and two monumental fountains now mark its center.

12. Centre Pompidou

Coordinates
48.86064, 2.35224
In one line
An inside-out machine of a building by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, opened in 1977 with its structure, escalators and color-coded pipes worn on the outside. It houses Europe's largest collection of modern art and a vast public library.

13. Les Invalides

Coordinates
48.855, 2.3125
In one line
Louis XIV's vast home for wounded veterans, founded in 1670 and crowned by Jules Hardouin-Mansart's gilded dome of 1706. Beneath the dome lies Napoleon's tomb, while the surrounding courtyards hold the army museum and still serve French soldiers.

14. Luxembourg Gardens

Coordinates
48.84694, 2.33722
In one line
A 23-hectare garden created from 1612 for Marie de' Medici beside her Florentine-style palace, now the seat of the French Senate. Children sail wooden boats on the central basin beneath statues of the queens of France.

15. Tuileries Garden

Coordinates
48.8639, 2.3261
In one line
The formal garden Catherine de' Medici created in 1564 and André Le Nôtre redrew for Louis XIV, stretching between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde. Its gravel allées, basins and sculptures form the grand central axis of Paris.

16. Pont Neuf

Coordinates
48.8575, 2.34167
In one line
Despite its name, the New Bridge is the oldest standing bridge over the Seine in Paris, built between 1578 and 1607. Its twelve stone arches, carved masks and rounded bastions made it the city's first modern public space.

17. Conciergerie

Coordinates
48.8564, 2.3456
In one line
A surviving wing of the medieval royal Palais de la Cité that became the most feared prison of the French Revolution. Marie-Antoinette awaited the guillotine here, and its Gothic Hall of the Men-at-Arms is among the largest in Europe.

18. Place Vendôme

Coordinates
48.8675, 2.32944
In one line
An octagonal royal square designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart under Louis XIV, now the world capital of high jewelry. At its center rises the Vendôme Column, cast from cannons captured by Napoleon at Austerlitz in 1805.

19. Montmartre

Coordinates
48.88694, 2.34111
In one line
A hilltop village inside Paris, 130 meters high, crowned by the white domes of Sacré-Cœur. Its steep stairways, windmills and cheap studios once sheltered Renoir, van Gogh and Picasso, making this hill the cradle of modern art.

20. Moulin Rouge

Coordinates
48.88417, 2.3325
In one line
The world's most famous cabaret, opened in 1889 beneath a bright red windmill at the foot of Montmartre. Birthplace of the modern can-can and muse of Toulouse-Lautrec, it still stages feathered revues nightly.

21. Pont Alexandre III

Coordinates
48.86361, 2.31361
In one line
The most ornate bridge in Paris, built between 1896 and 1900 to celebrate the Franco-Russian Alliance and serve the Exposition Universelle. Its single low steel arch carries gilded statues, Art Nouveau lamps and cherubs across the Seine.

22. Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro)

Coordinates
48.86234, 2.28807
In one line
A curved 1937 palace of two monumental wings crowning the Trocadéro hill, home to museums of architecture, humankind and the sea. Its central esplanade frames the most celebrated head-on view of the Eiffel Tower.

23. Hôtel de Ville (City Hall)

Coordinates
48.8564, 2.3525
In one line
The city hall of Paris, a neo-Renaissance palace rebuilt between 1873 and 1882 after the Commune fire, its facades carrying 338 statues of famous Parisians. The square in front witnessed executions, revolutions and the Liberation of 1944.

24. Place des Vosges

Coordinates
48.85556, 2.36556
In one line
The oldest planned square in Paris, laid out for Henri IV between 1605 and 1612 as the Place Royale. Thirty-six matching houses of red brick and slate enclose a perfect 140-meter square where Victor Hugo once lived.

25. Palais-Royal

Coordinates
48.86333, 2.33694
In one line
Cardinal Richelieu's seventeenth-century palace, later the pleasure ground of the Orléans dukes, wraps elegant arcades around a quiet garden. Daniel Buren's striped columns of 1986 fill its courtyard, while the Comédie-Française performs next door.

26. Catacombs of Paris

Coordinates
48.83389, 2.33222
In one line
An underground ossuary holding the remains of more than six million Parisians, transferred from overflowing cemeteries beginning in 1786. Twenty meters below the streets, former limestone quarries shelter long walls of carefully stacked bones and skulls.

27. Musée Rodin

Coordinates
48.85528, 2.31583
In one line
Auguste Rodin's sculptures fill the elegant eighteenth-century Hôtel Biron and its three hectares of gardens, where The Thinker broods among the roses. The artist donated his entire collection to France in 1916, and the museum opened in 1919.

28. Musée de l'Orangerie

Coordinates
48.86385, 2.32254
In one line
A former winter shelter for the orange trees of the Tuileries, transformed into the home of Claude Monet's Water Lilies. Eight sweeping panels wrap two oval rooms, with the Walter-Guillaume collection of Impressionist and modern art below.

29. Grand Palais

Coordinates
48.8661, 2.3125
In one line
A colossal exhibition hall built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, its stone Beaux-Arts facades concealing a vaulted glass nave nearly 240 meters long. It has hosted art salons, horse shows, wartime hospitals and Olympic fencing.

30. Petit Palais

Coordinates
48.86604, 2.31453
In one line
Charles Girault's jewel-box pavilion from the 1900 world's fair, now the City of Paris fine arts museum. Behind its golden gates lie mosaic floors, painted ceilings, a semicircular garden courtyard and collections spanning Rembrandt to Cézanne.

31. Picasso Museum

Coordinates
48.85973, 2.36244
In one line
One of the world's foremost Picasso collections, housed in the Hôtel Salé, a grand Marais mansion finished in 1659 for a salt-tax collector. More than 5,000 works trace the artist's whole career, alongside his personal trove of Cézanne and Matisse.

32. Place de la Bastille

Coordinates
48.85306, 2.36917
In one line
The square where the French Revolution ignited on 14 July 1789, when Parisians stormed the medieval fortress-prison that stood here. Nothing remains of the Bastille itself; the gilded Génie de la Liberté now shines atop the July Column.

33. Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Coordinates
48.85389, 2.33444
In one line
The oldest church in Paris, founded as a royal abbey by the Merovingian king Childebert I in 543. Its Romanesque bell tower has stood since around the year 990, and richly restored nineteenth-century murals now glow inside.

34. La Madeleine

Coordinates
48.86998, 2.32443
In one line
A church in the form of a Greek temple, ringed by 52 Corinthian columns twenty meters tall. Begun under Louis XV, recast by Napoleon as a temple to his army, and finally consecrated to Mary Magdalene in 1842.

35. Church of Saint-Eustache

Coordinates
48.86333, 2.345
In one line
The great church of the old Les Halles market, built between 1532 and 1633 with a Gothic skeleton and Renaissance dress. Molière was baptized here, Louis XIV took first communion, and its organ of nearly 8,000 pipes still thunders.

36. Church of Saint-Sulpice

Coordinates
48.85111, 2.33472
In one line
The second-largest church in Paris rose in fits and starts between 1646 and the 19th century. Behind its mismatched towers wait Delacroix murals, a famed Cavaillé-Coll organ, and a brass meridian line crossing the floor.

37. Shakespeare and Company

Coordinates
48.8525, 2.34694
In one line
An English-language bookshop facing Notre-Dame across the Seine, opened by George Whitman in 1951 and renamed in honor of Sylvia Beach's legendary interwar store. Tens of thousands of aspiring writers have slept among its shelves.

38. Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

Coordinates
48.8608, 2.2975
In one line
France's museum of indigenous arts from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, opened in 2006 in a Jean Nouvel building raised on stilts above a wild garden near the Eiffel Tower. Its collections number in the hundreds of thousands.

39. Père Lachaise Cemetery

Coordinates
48.86, 2.395
In one line
The most visited cemetery in the world, opened in 1804 on a hillside in eastern Paris. Its forty-four hectares of cobbled lanes shelter Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Édith Piaf and Jim Morrison alongside a million ordinary Parisians.

40. Canal Saint-Martin

Coordinates
48.84722, 2.36667
In one line
A 4. 6-kilometer canal ordered by Napoleon in 1802 to bring fresh water into Paris and opened in 1825. Its nine locks, iron footbridges and shaded quays now frame one of the city's best-loved waterside neighborhoods.

41. Le Marais

Coordinates
48.86, 2.36083
In one line
A right-bank quarter built on drained marshland, once the address of French nobility and long the heart of Jewish Paris. Declared France's first protected historic district in 1964, its mansions now hold museums, galleries and crowded falafel counters.

42. Latin Quarter

Coordinates
48.85, 2.3425
In one line
The left-bank university district where students spoke Latin in the streets for centuries. Home to the Sorbonne since 1253 and built over Roman Lutetia, it gave Paris its scholars, its bohemians and the barricades of May 1968.

43. Rue Mouffetard

Coordinates
48.84194, 2.34972
In one line
One of the oldest streets in Paris, following a Roman road south out of ancient Lutetia. Spared by Haussmann, its 605 sloping meters of market stalls, cafés and crooked facades run from Place de la Contrescarpe down to Saint-Médard.

44. Marché d'Aligre

Coordinates
48.8505, 2.3792
In one line
One of the oldest food markets in Paris, held since 1779 on the edge of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Every morning except Monday, open-air produce stalls, a flea market and the covered Marché Beauvau hall fill Place d'Aligre.

45. Marché des Enfants Rouges

Coordinates
48.8628, 2.362
In one line
The oldest covered market in Paris, founded in 1615 under Louis XIII and named for an orphanage whose children dressed in red. Its lanes now mix Moroccan, Japanese and Italian food stalls with classic French produce.

46. Café de Flore

Coordinates
48.85417, 2.33264
In one line
A Saint-Germain-des-Prés café open since the 1880s, named for a statue of the goddess Flora across the boulevard. Picasso, Sartre and Beauvoir worked and argued on its red benches, and the Prix de Flore is still awarded here annually.

47. Les Deux Magots

Coordinates
48.854, 2.3332
In one line
A celebrated café on Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, named after two Chinese figurines that still watch over the room. A café since 1884, it hosted Hemingway, Picasso and the surrealists, and has awarded its own literary prize since 1933.

48. Café Procope

Coordinates
48.8525, 2.33881
In one line
Founded in 1686 by the Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, the Procope is often called the oldest café in Paris. Voltaire, Diderot and the revolutionaries debated beneath its chandeliers; it now serves classic French dishes in eighteenth-century rooms.

49. Parc des Buttes-Chaumont

Coordinates
48.88028, 2.38278
In one line
Opened in 1867 on the site of gypsum quarries and waste ground, this dramatic park in the 19th arrondissement piles up a cliff 50 meters high, an artificial lake, a grotto and a hilltop temple. It remains northeast Paris's favorite picnic lawn.

50. Belleville

Coordinates
48.87389, 2.38528
In one line
Once an independent hilltop village of vineyards and taverns, annexed by Paris in 1860, Belleville is now the city's great working-class crossroads, where Chinese, North African and Jewish histories share the slope that legend gives to Édith Piaf.

51. Rue Montorgueil

Coordinates
48.86494, 2.34686
In one line
A pedestrian market street running north from Les Halles, once the route by which oysters from the Channel coast entered Paris. Monet painted it draped in flags in 1878, and its bakeries and grocers still feed the quarter daily.

52. Butte-aux-Cailles

Coordinates
48.82806, 2.3525
In one line
A hilltop quarter in the 13th arrondissement named after Pierre Caille, who bought the vineyard-covered slope in 1543. Quarried ground kept its houses low and village-like; street art, small bars and a 1924 pool keep its locals loyal.

53. Coulée verte René-Dumont

Coordinates
48.84938, 2.37156
In one line
An elevated promenade planted along the disused Vincennes railway in the 12th arrondissement, opened in 1993 and running 4. 7 kilometers from Bastille toward the Bois de Vincennes. It was the world's first rail-line park and inspired New York's High Line.

54. Parc Monceau

Coordinates
48.87972, 2.30889
In one line
An eighteenth-century folly garden created for Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres, and reshaped under Haussmann in 1861. Its colonnade, pyramid and gilded gates make it the most elegant park of western Paris, painted by Monet and beloved by neighborhood families.

55. Montparnasse Cemetery

Coordinates
48.83806, 2.32694
In one line
The great cemetery of the Left Bank, opened in 1824 on former farmland in the 14th arrondissement. Among its 35,000 graves lie Sartre and Beauvoir, Baudelaire, Beckett and Serge Gainsbourg, whose tomb is piled with metro tickets.

56. Saint-Ouen Flea Market

Coordinates
48.90244, 2.34194
In one line
A sprawl of more than a dozen antique and secondhand markets at Porte de Clignancourt, born when Paris ragpickers settled here in the 1880s. Les Puces de Saint-Ouen is among the largest flea markets in the world.

57. Parc de la Villette

Coordinates
48.89444, 2.38861
In one line
A 55-hectare park in northeast Paris, designed by Bernard Tschumi in the 1980s on the site of the city's former slaughterhouses. Its bright-red follies, giant science museum and canal-side lawns make it the cultural playground of the 19th arrondissement.

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