Paris

Pont Neuf & Île de la Cité

Paris’s oldest standing bridge and the island where the city began – steps lead down to leafy Square du Vert-Galant. Free.

A former textile factory turned design hotel with a hammam, near Place de la République.

Frank Gehry’s glass-sail building in the Bois de Boulogne, with bold contemporary-art exhibitions.

Hands-on patisserie workshop piping and filling the perfect macaron, with a pastry chef and a box to take home.

A dramatic hilly park with cliffs, a waterfall, a suspended bridge and a clifftop temple. A local favourite. Free.

Dorothée Meilichzon-designed rooms with a buzzy rooftop, near the Opéra and Le Marais.

Rodin’s sculptures – The Thinker, The Kiss – in the elegant Hôtel Biron and its rose garden.

A candlelit three-course French dinner with live music as the floodlit monuments drift past the glass-roofed boat.

Step inside for the 1912 stained-glass Belle Époque dome, then up to the free rooftop terrace’s skyline view.

Stylish SoPi boutique with Frenchie Pigalle downstairs, steps from Pigalle and Montmartre.