Paris · 3 days · 16 stops · 75% local · ~12.1 km walked (~16,100 steps) · dense pace
Market streets, canal apéros and covered passages — the Paris Parisians actually live in. Zero queueing, maximum flânerie.
⛰ Terrain: some climbs. Flat except the Montmartre morning — steep streets and stairs up the butte.
🛡 Safety: relaxed. Nothing notable.
Coffee at Ten Belles, lunch at the Enfants Rouges stalls, and come back to the canal at dusk when the quais fill up.
Canal Saint-Martin
~5hFootbridges, specialty coffee and canal-side apéros
Ten BelleslocalSpecialty coffee anchor of the canal scene.
Le Marais
~4hThe local Marais — covered market lunch and side-street vintage
MercilocalConcept store and cafés set around a courtyard with a Fiat 500.
Musée CarnavaletlocalFree history museum tracing Paris from prehistory to present.
Graze up Rue des Martyrs in the morning, hit Sacré-Cœur before 10am, then lose yourself in the back lanes — Place du Tertre is skippable.
Montmartre
~5hThe village above the city, minus the tour groups
Rue des MartyrslocalFoodie street climbing toward Montmartre — cheese, natural wine, pastry.
Sacré-CœurWhite-domed basilica crowning Paris's highest hill.
Mouffetard is best before noon. Grab market picnic supplies and claim a green chair in the Luxembourg.
Île de la Cité / Latin Quarter
~4hStudent Paris — market street and garden chairs
Rue MouffetardlocalMedieval market street tumbling downhill — students, grocers, old Paris.
Saint-Germain
~3hLeft Bank Sunday: organic market and sculpture gardens
Marché RaspaillocalOpen-air market; the Sunday organic edition is a Left Bank institution.
Musée RodinSculpture garden with The Thinker, in an 18th-century mansion.
