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A city at a time, done properly.

We’d rather give you one city that is unforgettable than fifty that are fine. Paris comes first. Where we walk next is up to you — tell us where to go.

Paris from above, centred on the Eiffel Towerphoto: Wladyslaw Sojka (Taxiarchos228), cropped by Poke2001 · CC BY 3.0first city

Paris

Tens of millions of people a year photograph the same dozen buildings. Roava walks you between them and tells you what they cost — the boulevard cut straight to defeat a barricade, the white basilica built over a crushed uprising, the wall they were shot against.

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