Walking tours · Paris 5th · 2 hours
Latin Quarter — Private Walking Tour
The Latin Quarter owes its name to the days when the masters and students of the Sorbonne spoke Latin to one another — a common language that crossed the borders of a learned Europe. Dante studied here; here medicine, theology and law became disciplines.
Your guide takes you from the Gallo-Roman remains to the great universities of today, through medieval lanes, old bookshops and the squares that saw as many intellectual revolutions as political ones.
The tour
2 hoursTwo thousand years of learning
Remains of Roman Lutetia and medieval streets, the Sorbonne and the great schools, passages and inner courtyards, stories of Dante, Abelard and the students of the Middle Ages: scholarly Paris and popular Paris, side by side.
Practical information
This is an outdoor walking tour: no entrance ticket is needed.