Île de la Cité and Île St-Louis are steeped in history and include some wonderful sites and spots to take in and get acquainted with Paris. Whenever I am in Paris as a Paris travel advisor I ...

Visitors to Notre Dame Cathedral have expressed anger and frustration after those without a QR code were denied entry. Boos ...

France's iconic Notre Dame Cathedral is formally reopening its doors on Saturday for the first time since a devastating fire ...

Notre-Dame cathedral is reopening this weekend, following the 2019 fire. It's the perfect reason to visit the prettiest parts of the city ...

Firefighters and police officers formed a human chain to rescue the crown of thorns from the inferno at Notre Dame on April ...

After more than five years of reconstruction following the fire that devastated Notre Dame in 2019, invite-only ceremonies Saturday and Sunday will usher in its rebirth. Police ch ...

FABIEN BARRAU / AFP The security cordon sealing off the whole of the Ile de La Cité, plus a stretch of the Seine's southern bank and nine of its bridges, will be in place from early Saturday ...

This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most every morning at nine, the emergency responders assigned to the Seine pull on their wet suits and swim around the ...

Then, the projections change and I’m hovering above the Seine, gazing down on the Île de la Cité in the 17th century, with the Notre-Dame towering above the city’s pre-Haussmann chimneys.