The arrondissements of Paris are administrative and cultural districts that offer different features and attractions to tourists. There are twenty arrondissements (or districts) in total.

Paris is split into two halves – the Right and Left banks – by the storied Seine River. The city is further broken into 20 numbered arrondissements (or neighborhoods), which twirl clockwise from the ...

Spiraling outward from the center of the city, Paris’s 20 numbered arrondissements are a series of zoned administrative districts. They largely coincide with the city’s organically formed ...

The central four arrondissements of the French capital have been given a new name as part of the mayor's plan to see the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th arrondissements become one. Find out the new name. Paris ...

It’s time to tear up the historic map of Paris and start over. So suggests a new proposal from Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, leaked from a “confidential note” to France’s President and Prime Minister last ...

Next time you’re in Paris, skip the packed tourist centers and base yourself in a quieter, cooler part of town. Gwen McClure is an American journalist who’s lived in and written about Auckland, New ...