self-guided audio walks · paris
Everyone has seen Paris. Hardly anyone has been told it.
Thirty-five million 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 raised in penance for a government that lasted seventy-two days, the wall they were shot against.
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A guide who knows where to send you next.
Most audio guides read you the plaque. Every Roava story is researched, written and produced the way a great guide tells it — because that is what it is.
The Île de la Cité and the Louvre, the Marais, the Panthéon hill, Montmartre and the market streets below it, Père Lachaise and Belleville, the Champ de Mars — and the Catacombs. It crosses the Seine twice and leaves the monumental core twice, on purpose.
Why the boulevard is straight and who was cleared to straighten it. What the basilica on the hill is an apology for. Every stop is researched from the record — archives and heritage sources — before a word of it is written.
Narrated in English with a synced transcript, one landmark at a time. No group, no umbrella, no schedule to fall behind — linger, detour, stop for lunch, pick it up tomorrow.
photo: Gordon Gartrell · CC BY-SAstops in paris
Stops that argue with the postcard.
A few of the places the guide sends you to, and the reason each one is worth standing in. Ask for history, or sacred sites, or anything at all — it picks what is worth the walk from where you are.
sacred sitesphoto: Giò Terra (Terragio67) · CC BY-SASacré-Cœur
Raised in penance for a workers’ government that lasted seventy-two days — staring down at the city from the hill where it started.
historicphoto: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin · CC BY-SAThe Mur des Fédérés
The wall the last Communards were shot against, in the most visited cemetery on earth, marked with a single line you have to look for.
markets & squaresphoto: Mbzt · CC BYThe Marais
The crooked lanes the boulevards never reached — the control group that shows you exactly what sixty percent of Paris was replaced with.
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photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SAParis is standing on the hole it came out of.
Two hundred kilometres of quarry under the southern arrondissements, and six million Parisians moved down into it when the graveyards began collapsing into cellars. That story is waiting at Denfert-Rochereau, and it is about a twenty-minute walk from the last one.