Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques

WALKING TOUR ⭐️ PREMIUM AUDIO TOUR

Parijse Verborgen Schatten: Een Wandeling Door Kunst & Geschiedenis

An audio guided tour by Ryan Multilingual, The Artist

Welcome to Paris! On this GPS guided audio tour, we will visit 14 stops on a route of 2.77km. This tour focusses mainly on arts & Culture.

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Tour Sights 📸

Commanderie Saint-Jacques du Haut-Pas

Sight A former monastery and hospice of the Order of San Giacomo di Altopascio, established to provide spiritual and material support to pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. The site housed a hospital, hospice, and later a veteran care facility, before being converted into a seminary, institute for the deaf, and finally the current National Institute for Young Deaf People.

Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas

Church A Roman Catholic parish church in Paris, France, named after Saint-Jacques Du-Haut-Pas, a cousin of Christ and the first bishop of Jerusalem. The church was completed in 1685 and features architectural styles such as Flamboyant Gothic and Baroque.

Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques

Sight A destroyed convent, the Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques was a Dominican monastery in Paris that was founded in 1217 and suppressed in 1790, with its buildings demolished between 1800 and 1849.

Chapelle Sainte-Ursule de la Sorbonne

Church A Roman Catholic chapel rebuilt in the 17th century by order of Cardinal Richelieu, featuring architecture by Jacques Lemercier and decorations by Philippe de Champaigne and François Girardon.

Monument to Auguste Comte

Sight A sculpture of Auguste Comte, a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism, stands on the Place de la Sorbonne, featuring a bust of Comte surrounded by two figures: Clotilde de Vaux and a reading figure.

Cordeliers Convent

Sight A Franciscan friary, the Cordeliers Convent in Paris, built in the 13th century, served as a school of theology, care center, and church, hosting the Club of the Cordeliers during the French Revolution and later the Dupuytren Museum of anatomy.

Théodore de Banville

Sight A white marble bust of Théodore de Banville sits atop a pedestal on a base, with steps resembling an altar, representing the poet as a torso-naked figure with a drapery on his shoulder.

fontaine de Léda

Sight A Parisian sculptural wall fountain built between 1806-1808, designed by Achille Valois, depicting the legend of Leda and the Swan with a central bas-relief panel featuring the mythological scene.

Medici Fountain

Sight A monumental fountain commissioned by Marie de' Medici, built around 1630, featuring statues of mythological figures and a grotto, with a rich history of modifications and restorations since the 17th century.

L'Acteur grec

Sight A bronze sculpture created by Charles-Arthur Bourgeois in 1868, L'Acteur grec represents an ancient Greek actor declaiming his text, holding a manuscript in his left hand and wearing a raised mask on his forehead and a sheepskin around his loins.