Guided tour

Paris: Dark City Secrets Walking Tour

Activity provider: My Precious Paris
Guided tour

Paris: Dark City Secrets Walking Tour

Activity provider: My Precious Paris
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From US$ 32.28 per person

Likely to sell out

Experience Paris’ dark side throughout a spine-chilling evening walk. You'll discover the historical murders, crimes, and fantastic legends that have shaped the story of this city.

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Duration 2 hours
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Live tour guide
English, Russian
Private or small groups available

Experience

Itinerary
2 hours
  • Ile de la Cite

  • Notre Dame Cathedral

  • Pont Neuf

  • Conciergerie

  • Latin Quarter

Meeting point
Main stop
End point
Highlights
  • Discover the main site where public executions took place
  • Learn more about the most famous Parisian ghosts
  • Discover the Templars, a modern secret society with a huge history
  • Find the demons on the Notre-Dame Cathedral
  • Visit cursed locations
Full description

Throughout your 2-hour guided tour you will discover the dark side of the center of Paris. Choose between a shared or private experience, which will begin at the former main site of the bloody and popular public executions, which were both adored and appreciated by Parisians.

You will see how cruelly they used to punish convicted criminals, as well as the occasional unfortunate innocent person too. Paris is a haunted city with plenty of ghosts and phantoms. One famous French poet became the ghost that today haunts a theater, another one was injured during a fire and has since never left the Opera House.

You'll learn about the "evil queen" of France, and how another spirit haunted her all the way up until her final days. Demons and devilish beings are everywhere in Paris, with the Notre Dame Cathedral containing plenty of them on its exterior. On this facade, there are so many creepy and mysterious signs and symbols, which require a thorough investigation to properly appreciate it. You will learn how a gypsy cursed a house in the Latin Quarter, causing its owner to die. This was followed by more people mysteriously dying there.

You'll hear the spine-chilling story about this most famous cursed Parisian place, before your chilling tour finishes at the meeting point with the story of a vampire.

Includes
  • Professional guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

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Participants

Date

Meeting point

Please arrive 5 minutes before the tour starts. Your guide will wait for you near the l'Occitane shop The nearest metro station is Hotel-de-Ville, Cité.

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Important information

What to bring

  • Comfortable shoes
  • Umbrella

Know before you go

  • This tour runs rain or shine
Customer reviews

Overall rating

4.7 /5

based on 332 reviews

Review summary

  • Guide
    4.8/5
  • Value for money
    4.5/5

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The tour was Amazing! All thanks to LEO the tour guide. He did a Wonderful job bringing the stories to life and he has an Awesome personality!! He was on time and you could tell he loved giving this tour.... We absolutely loved it! And we loved LEO! Bouillon had an hour wait (that was a restaurant recommendation) but we will not forget. Merci, LEO!!

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March 25, 2023

Great experience and highly recommended. Tour guide was fantastic, funny, knowledgable, and personable — especially considering this is a dark secrets tour. The walk wasn’t overly long, bur definitely recommend you wear comfy shoes. The stories were fascinating and wished it could go on all night. Five stars for the tour and five stars for the guide!

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March 25, 2023

We booked this for us and our three boys (aged 9-14) with heaps of excitement, and some trepidation; we weren't sure how engaging they would find it, whether it would distract them from 2 hours of walking. On the contrary, they collectively scored the walk 9/10, only taking one point off for the sheer goriness of one particular story (you'll have to book the tour to guess which one...) Morgan was our guide for the evening and he was superb! For the entirety of the walk, he was fluid and animated, no hesitations or awkward silences, with lashings of dark humour thrown in for good effect. He used an iPad loaded with photos to embellish and support the storytelling. It really was first class and we are so pleased we chose this activity over others. It helped that the weather was mild and dry... apparently it does go ahead despite the rain. Would advise preparing your tip in advance, it will be well deserved. Highly recommend this for all able age groups.

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March 25, 2023

Product ID: 359100