Balade guidée au coeur des Passages Couverts à Paris

Your stroll through the heart of the covered passages begins in the garden of the Palais-Royal, residence of the kings of France. You will then follow the path of covered galleries, passageways where kings and princes once exhibited their artworks.

A true symbol of a pre-Haussmann art of living, the Galleries were fashionable and highly prized at the time. Your guide will not fail to unveil the sumptuous decorations adorning Galerie Véro-Dodat or Galerie Vivienne, along with many others.

Now listed as national historical monuments, the covered passages will immerse you in a timeless atmosphere far from the hectic bustle of Parisian streets. Today, one finds all sorts of shops there, still a few cafés and restaurants. The atmosphere is certainly different from that which prevailed in the nineteenth century, but one easily senses the importance of appearances through the art of flânerie and promenade that flourished in that era.

An intoxicating stroll in the footsteps of a now-vanished way of life.