Hello traveling companions!! Welcome to a new route through Paris, the fourth route in this series. Today we will show you the route that we take through the Latin Quarter, a route that we enjoy a lot and in a very slow way, and we will get to know a part of the fifth district. With the previous routes we got to know part of the ninth, second, first, on the routes of the galleries and covered passages, the eighteenth on the Montmartre route, and the 14th and 20th districts on the route of the catacombs and the Père Lachaise cemetery. Little by little we go through part of the different districts of Paris together, which is always somewhat complicated to understand if it is not with a map in hand. This map with the division by districts, as well as today's route map, I leave them on the blog. Let's go quickly to the details of it to be able to enjoy this area of Paris. On this route we will walk around 3 kilometers, the cost will be €11.50 since we will have the entrance to the Pantheon, for those who have the Paris Pass the entrance is included. This time we will stop for a break to have a drink and see some prices. As I told you in other videos, we were staying near the Arc de Triomphe, which we will show you in future videos, so to start this route in our case we went by metro to the Jussie station from where we will start the walk, although the station closest to the Pantheon is Cardinal Lemoine for metro, and Luxembourg for RER B, you may be very close to the point so this transfer does not take it into account. Welcome to the Latin Quarter!! We will start here, in our case from Jussie Square, a quiet 300-meter walk through streets without tourists until we reach the Cardinal Lemoine station, the station where I recommend you get off. We will stop to eat and drink something, because we had just come from doing another of the routes, which we will see in future videos, and therefore before starting the walk we needed some energy. The Croque Monsieur came with fries, it cost 11 euros and the 50-milliliter beer 8 euros, the soft drink 5. Now, yes, we start the walk to the Pantheon walking only about 400 meters, one of the essential points of this visit and we pass by one of the visible remains of the Philip Augustus Wall from the year 1200. Built by order of Philip II of France to defend the city from attack by the Anglo-Angevin armies, only a few remains remain. We continue our steps until we find the Saint Etienne du Mont Church. Inside it houses the relics and the sarcophagus of Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, a beauty of construction. A curiosity, its staircase has appeared in the movie Midnight in Paris by the famous Woody Allen. It is the place where a car picks up the protagonist to take him to the 1920s when playing The Midnight Chimes. You can visit its beautiful interior, inside, as we said, there are the relics and sarcophagus of Saint Genevieve, patron saint of the city, as well as some impressive stained glass windows. Admission is free. And now yes, we just turn our eyes and there he appears... the Pantheon of Paris. Seeing his image reminds us of St. Paul's in London and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. It is a magnificent construction built between 1764 and 1790, the original idea was that it would be a church dedicated to the patron saint of the city, but in 1791 the French National Assembly voted that the building, which had not yet been consecrated as a church, would serve as a temple to house the bodies of the illustrious men of the country. Thus, in its crypt we find Voltaire, Rousseau, Marie Curie, Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas among others. In 1851 Foucault installed his famous pendulum, known as the Foucault pendulum, in the pantheon. Due to the great height of the building it facilitated the experiment, through this experiment it was possible to demonstrate the rotation of the earth. Since 1995 a replica of this pendulum has been installed in the pantheon . This time we didn't go in, so the images you are seeing are from a previous visit. The entrance fee is €11.50 and is included, at least at the time of editing the video, in the Paris Pass, since it is included in the Museum Pass. Always check, because the attractions included in the tourist passes change often, so everything you hear in the videos is like this until the moment of editing them, go and check later on the official pages that I always leave the links on the blog. Hours are 10am to 6pm or 6:30pm, depending on the season. Surrounding it are loads of students, the Santa Genevieve Library, the Pantheon Sorbonne University, and a number of beautiful buildings. But changing the turn of the visit, we will walk no more than 130 meters and we will find a very special little corner. If you've seen Emily in Paris you'll recognize it right away, but if you haven't seen it, and don't plan to, I bet you'll also like this corner only disturbed a little by tourists who are fans of the series. The Place de l'Estrapade is the point, a small square with a fountain in the middle, with local people enjoying their moment of rest. On this site is Emily's apartment in the series, and in this square she celebrated her birthday. But if we just cross, we find Gabriel's restaurant, which is actually a restaurant but it's called Terra Nera. Right next door is the Boulangerie Moderne, where Emily used to buy those amazing croissants. But if you have no idea what I'm talking about, surely you still want to buy some croissants and eat them sitting in the square, right? It's nice to do some alternative routes if we already know the essentials of Paris, right? Well, I think so. We return our steps towards the Pantheon and now we will go down rue Valette. Well, let's see, I'll tell you what I did this time, but in reality you have many more options. You can go to rue Soufflot and see the image of the Pantheon from there, you will get a very good photo!, and go to the Luxembourg Gardens, they have already seen it in several of our videos, but the truth is that it is always a A must in Paris. And if you opted for this path of going to the gardens, then you can go down the Seine passing by the Sorbonne and the Museum of the Middle Ages. Admission to the Museum of the Middle Ages or Cluny Museum costs 12 euros, it is included in the Paris pass and Museum Pass, and admission is free on the first Sunday of the month. But this time we chose a quiet walk down rue Valette, without making the points mentioned above. But well, coming back, we used to say that we were going down rue Valette, and approximately one kilometer, always going down, separates us from the Seine River and Notre Dame. It's a nice, relaxed ride, but all the forks you choose will be good options too. Do you know why it is called the Latin Quarter? The Latin Quarter owes its name to medieval times when the inhabitants of the area were students who used Latin to communicate. I also tell you that although we are marking the entire route for you to do on your own, there are free tours of the Latin Quarter, the route will be the reverse of ours, they will start at the Saint Michel Fountain, which we are going to go to now , they will pass almost at the last and through the Pantheon to finish in the Luxembourg gardens. As I always tell you, it is a very good option to obtain information and to be more relaxed. We continue our walk with beautiful corners at every step until we reach the majestic Notre Dame, despite what we have experienced, and along with it the beauty of the Seine that always catches you. What to say about Notre Dame?, until 2019 the essential visit with the rise of its towers, then that April 15 in which we saw it burn in flames, and today although full of scaffolding for its reconstruction, it is still the image of Paris along with the Eiffel Tower. Its streets are charming, right? By watching the videos of the routes, those who have not yet been will discover that when we say that we have to spend many days in this type of city it is because we do not have to keep the basics, we could go to Paris and climb the Eiffel Tower , to the Arc de Triomphe and visit the Louvre Museum, come back and say that we know Paris, but take routes, go inside, eat something sitting on the floor on the banks of the Seine, and you can say that you enjoyed Paris. We cross the Seine to admire Notre Dame more closely, and we return to Saint Michel square, an iconic place in the Latin quarter, a place that we stayed very close to on our previous visit, an area that is my favorite in Paris, and that maintains the same charm that the entire district has. If we would like to add one more place, although this time we did not because we have already entered it more than once, it is the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, a bookstore that also appears in some films, for example the previously named Midnight in Paris. If you still don't know her, if you haven't entered yet, I really recommend you do it, especially if you are book lovers, but the truth is that she is charming. At this point we can visit three churches. The Saint Julien le Pauvre church, considered one of the oldest in Paris, its construction began in the 12th century. The Saint Séverin church, its bell tower has the oldest bell in Paris. And although already in the next district in 6, the Saint Sulpice church, which became better known to everyone for appearing in the Da Vinci Code novel, I recommend it, this time I did not go but it is a nice visit, as well as the square in front. In all cases tickets are free. I am going to leave all the things that I am naming for you marked on a map and then you can see how you shape the route a little, what you want to see and what you don't. Travel companions , so far our route today, if you liked the video but mainly if it has helped you, do not forget to subscribe, like it, as well as share it with other travel companions who like to make their own itineraries . All this, you know, helps us a lot to be able to continue creating this type of content. Now yes, until a next route through Paris!!
