One straight line, from a king's school to a hilltop named after a Spanish fort.
Our Paris trails follow the axis every visitor photographs and almost nobody walks end to end:
the École Militaire, the Champ de Mars, the Pont d'Iéna under the tower, and up to the Trocadéro.
Six sites, two and a half kilometres, about two hours. At each one, something is stated with
great confidence, and you check it against what is actually there.
The six sites on the line
Years are when each site took its present form, from our History Companion. The tower is not a stop; it is the view from every one of them.
Anyone from about 12 up. Friends, families, first-time visitors, people who have lived here for years and never read a plinth.
6 sites · 2.5 km · about 2 hours · École Militaire to the Trocadéro · 1 to 5 players on one ticket
ARIA has read 38 petabytes of books and never once looked at a real city. You are her human calibration partner for one last field session. At each site she makes a confident, specific, wrong hypothesis, and you correct her with evidence you can see.
Couples. Honeymooners welcome, not required. Same six sites and puzzles as Seine Clearly, so choose one of the two.
6 chapters · 2.5 km · about 2 hours · a Field Journal for Two in the pack
Somebody gave you The Romantic's Complete Guide by Gerald Fairweather, a man who has never been to Paris. Every page is certain. Most of them are wrong. Walk six of his chapters together and pencil in the corrections.
