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The Dark Legends of Paris – Guided tour
Excursions & Unique
Place Maubert 75005 Paris,
Information
All the secrets and mysteries of Paris will be revealed during this guided tour lasting 1 hour 15 minutes.
Within the City of Lights hides a darker and more mysterious Paris, full of legends and black magic....
The tour begins at Place Maubert where you'll look for traces of Albert the Great before being led to the exterior of Notre Dame Cathedral, a site that is shrouded in stories and mysteries
Facing Saint-Jacques Tower, you will come to understand how reality is stranger than fiction... then you'll be lead to the heart of Rue de la Ferronnerie where you will learn how Henry IV of France, nicknamed the "Vert Galant", lost his life...
Your guide will then conjure up an image of the defunct Holy Innocents Cemetery, which had been decorated with a continuous frieze of macabre art.
The tour comes to an end at the astrological and astronomical tower of the Black Queen. It was inside this very tower that the magician at the service of Catherine Médicis practised black magic. It has been said that during stormy nights his ghost returns to haunt the tower!
An experience that will send shivers down your spine!
Highlights
- An original tour
- Spine-chilling stories that are steeped in history
- Visiting sites linked to mysterious tales
Useful Tips
* Availability: every Saturday (excluding exceptional dates)
* Language: French
* Times: 2:30pm
* Duration: 1 hr 15 mins
* Departure point: central Paris, 75005
* Getting there: metro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10)
* A minimum of 2 participants is required to book this activity
* Animals not admitted
* THE TOUR WILL START PROMPTLY AT THE SCHEDULED DEPARTURE TIME. LATECOMERS RUN THE RISK OF MISSING THE TOUR, WHICH CANNOT BE REFUNDED OR RESCHEDULED
* Language: French
* Times: 2:30pm
* Duration: 1 hr 15 mins
* Departure point: central Paris, 75005
* Getting there: metro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10)
* A minimum of 2 participants is required to book this activity
* Animals not admitted
* THE TOUR WILL START PROMPTLY AT THE SCHEDULED DEPARTURE TIME. LATECOMERS RUN THE RISK OF MISSING THE TOUR, WHICH CANNOT BE REFUNDED OR RESCHEDULED
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