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Let Secret Paris guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Paris guide book, now in its 9th edition. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 300 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Paris guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

Step this way to discover:

Winemaking firefighters
A tree in a church
An atomic bomb shelter under Gare de l’Est
The patron saint of motorists
Royal monograms hidden in the Louvre courtyard
A pre-historic merry-go-round
A sundial designed by Dali
Bullet holes at the minstry and war-wounded palm trees

For those who thought they knew Paris well, the city is still teeming with unusual and secret places that are easily accessible. An indispensable guide for those who thought they knew Paris or would like to discover the other face of the city.

Secret Paris – An unusual guide is the original and still the best of all the many alternative Paris guides: accept no imitation. Author and Parisian, Thomas Jonglez, has prowled the city streets, seeking out the hidden, eccentric and overlooked.