I'm trying to stick to my "ask mastodon rather than chatgpt" habit: does anyone have recommendations for interesting places to visit in Paris?

[chiasm@venera.social]

@olynch I have very fond memories of the Picasso museum there! But yeah, just wandering around with the map and looking at all the buildings is a heck of a way to spend time in Paris. Stop at a random cafe and watch the old men playing bocce ball or whatever it was in the courtyard behind ...

[godber@az.social]

@olynch Musée d'Orsay

[tintouli@mastodon.social]

@olynch https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_Saint-Jacques

[tintouli@mastodon.social]

@olynch https://www.musee-moyenage.fr/

[hotsoup@infosec.exchange]

@olynch every year there is a ‘best baguette in Paris’ contest.
https://www.paris.fr/pages/la-meilleure-baguette-de-paris-2025-se-deguste-dans-le-10e-arrondissement-30669
You can find historic winners and see if any of the bakeries are near your other destinations.

[rmiddleton@mastodon.art]

@davey_cakes @olynch I second this recommendation for Musée d'Orsay over the Louvre to spend more time with art than with crowds.

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

@olynch Any café! Experience having a mediocre croissant slammed on the table with open disdain verging on hatred

Be sure to also see the queue outside Notre Dame and then shrug and go somewhere else, like to a gold ring scammer for example.

[backfromthedud@mas.to]

@skewray Cat O'Coombs? @olynch

[cholq@infosec.exchange]

@olynch more of a recommendation on what not to do, but our whole group regretted wasting a day visiting Versailles. It's fine, but there were things in the city we didn't have time for that we collectively agreed would have been time better spent.

Also, croissants, pain du chocolate and macarons seem to get all the love in tourist sites, but if I can only get one item from a French bakery, it's a kouign-amann (pronounced queen aman). Highly recommend you get one while you're there.

[js@mastodon.nl]

@olynch Don’t think the Hôtel Salé (Picasso) was mentioned? Or the Arts er Métiers? The Musée Rodin? Les Invalides, The Musée de L’Homme?

Hanging around the Sacré Coeur in the evening? Mass in the Sacré Coeur itself, in Latin, with beutifuk choirs? Dinner in the Rue Lamarck?

+1 for the Catacombes. The Musée d’Orsay.

[kajord@hachyderm.io]

@olynch the crowded places are crowded for a reason, I won’t tell you not to go to the Louvre or Notre Dame but you don’t need my recommendation for them.

Good suggestions elsewhere in this thread, I will add a couple of my favorite sites of ancient Roman Paris: Musée Cluny and Arène de Lutece.

[kevin@fedi.kbg.sh]

@olynch @bentnib @cxandru the collection of First Republic-era decimal clocks is not to be missed. Also one of the few surviving Pascalines!