Private walking tourUp to 6 people2 hoursOutdoor tour, no ticket needed
The church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris

For fifty years Saint-Germain-des-Prés was the intellectual and artistic capital of the world. Here Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir wrote at the Café de Flore, Miles Davis and Sidney Bechet played in the jazz cellars, Picasso set up his studio, and Camus and Boris Vian invented a way of being in the world.

Your guide leads you to the addresses that mattered — the legendary cafés, the historic galleries, the apartments and hidden courtyards — setting each place back in its time and in the extraordinary ferment of those decades.

The tour

2 hours

Cafés, studios and courtyards

Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, Brasserie Lipp, rue du Dragon and the artists’ studios, passages and hidden courtyards, the galleries of the Left Bank: from the existentialism of the 1940s to jazz and the Nouveau Roman.

Practical information

Meeting pointIn front of the porch of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris 6th
Group1 to 6 people, private
Duration2 hours
AvailableEvery day

This is an outdoor walking tour: no entrance ticket is needed.