In the City of Light, you don’t have to pull out your wallet to take part in exciting activities. Yes, our beautiful capital is brimming with free good deals ! Voulez-vous go out in Paris for free? Walks, free museums and monuments, galleries, cruises, film courses… Discover free Paris!
No money needed for a stroll through Père Lachaise cemetery
In Paris, the Père Lachaise Cemetery unveils its thousand and one treasures free of charge. Also known as the “Cimetière de l’Est”, it is the largest cemetery in Paris, covering 43 hectares. Every year, over 3 million visitors flock to this place steeped in art, culture and history. A maze of stones and vegetation, home to 70,000 burial plots. Artists, statesmen, historians… Among them are the graves of Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Frédéric Chopin, Molière, Balzac, Colette and Oscar Wilde. And who knows, you might even come across an adorable family of foxes ?
📍Père Lachaise 75020 Paris
Free entry to the Saint-Ouen flea market
The Saint-Ouen flea market de Saint-Ouen, ça ne mange pas de pain! In this iconic location, you’ll enjoy wandering around and touching a thousand treasures with your eyes. Every year, 5 million visitors flock here for a reason. The Paris Saint-Ouen Flea Market boasts the largest concentration of antique and second-hand dealers in the world! Every Saturday, Sunday and Monday, visitors stroll along the seven-hectare site. The Saint-Ouen flea market is full of surprises for lovers of vintage items and antiques!
📍110 Rue des Rosiers, 93400 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Free activities in Paris: discover the most beautiful bucolic secret passages
Want to get lost in Paris? What if you decided to go in search of the greenest the capital’s greenest secret passages in the capital? Paris Secret gives you a helping hand. From Cité des Fleurs to Square Montsouris, via Rue des Thermopyles or Square des Peupliers… our beautiful City of Light is brimming with charming, bucolic, village-like passageways. A free, rejuvenating and enriching stroll through Paris!
Take advantage of today’s best free exhibitions
In Paris, art and culture are also accessible free of charge. Photograph, outdoor exhibitions, street art, haute couture, immersive experiences… Parisian galleries and museums give you the opportunity to enrich and marvel without emptying your wallet. You want to discover the most beautiful free exhibitions of the moment? Follow the guide!
Free activities in Paris : A free cruise on the Seine on your birthday
Did you know? On your birthday, Les Vedettes de Paris offers you a guided cruise on the Seine. On your birthday only, go to the Vedettes de Paris ticket office and bring your passport or other form of identification. Isn’t it your birthday? No matter! These few cruises offered by Les Vedettes de Paris should also appeal to you!
Take part in a free film course at the Forum des Images
Hello cinephiles! Every week at the Forum des Images, a film critic, historian or teacher analyzes a film or a subject related to a specific Program. Every Friday at 6:30pm (registration required), a free free cinema class to enrich your cinematic culture.
📍2 Rue du cinéma, 75001 Paris
Visit the newly renovated Musée du Parfum Fragonard
In Paris, a stone’s throw from the Opéra Garnier, the Musée du Parfum offers a unique museum concept. In an atypical, didactic way, it invites you to discover all the stages involved in creating this luxury everyday object: perfume. Raw materials, harvesting, extraction, distillation, formulation, industrialization, bottling, creation, the nose business… Parfumerie Fragonard reveals all its manufacturing secrets here. A free guided tour for the curious and perfume lovers!
📍9 Rue Scribe, 75009 Paris
Free activities in Paris: enjoy open-air cinemas in summer
Every summer, open-air cinemas return to the City of Light, to the delight of moviegoers. From La Villette to the Louvre, via Vincennes, the Machine du Moulin Rouge and the rails of the Petite Ceinture, these open-air cinemas invite you to take in the sights under the stars – for free! We can’t wait for the summer of 2023!
Visit the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur free of charge
The Basilique du Sacré-Coeur is a jewel of French heritage. Consecrated in 1919, it offers one of the finest panoramic views of the capital, at an altitude of 130 meters. When you take a stroll on the Butte Montmartre, you’ll love visiting it, again and again, without ever tiring of it. Open to visitors every day, the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur is accessible free of charge, without reservation.
📍35 Rue du Chevalier de la Barre, 75018 Paris
Admire the graceful works of Spot 13, an open-air street art gallery
If you’re not already a fan of street art, this Parisian spot is sure to please. A truly ephemeral open-air gallery, Spot 13 constantly unveils new colorful murals by urban artists from all walks of life. A free space for exchange between artists and onlookers .
Take a tour of the Ferme de Paris Vincennes
It’s a 5-hectare farm nestled in the Bois de Vincennes: the Ferme de Paris! Managed with respect for the environment, its aim is to raise public awareness of agro-ecology and sustainable food. Goats, sheep, chickens, pigs, ducks, turkeys… Here you can meet adorable farm animals. In the heart of this green lung, you can enjoy a bucolic interlude in the pastures, orchard, forest or vegetable garden. Free access to a bit of the countryside in Paris, and what a pleasure it is!
📍1 Rte du Pesage, 75012 Paris
Explore the capital’s most beautiful covered passageways
A walk is free, and it’s good for your health! Even without a penny to our name, it’s possible to offer our eyes a thousand treasures. Precisely in Paris, the covered passages have a charm like no other. Passage des Panoramas, Galerie Vivienne, Passage du Grand-Cerf. Explore these passages steeped in history and take a wonderful trip back in time…
Visit the gardens of Versailles for free
Listed as a World Heritage Site for the past 40 years, the Château de Versailles is one of the finest achievements of 17th-century French art. Although a fee is charged to visit this heritage jewel, visitors can explore its marvellous gardens free of charge, except during the High Waters. The French-style gardens of Versailles, created in 1661 by André Le Nôtre, gardener to the kings, never tire of being explored!
📍Place d’Armes, 78000 Versailles
Free activities in Paris: take a rollerblade, bike or scooter ride in Paris
It’s free, it’s good for morale and it gets us moving! On a bike, a gyroroue, a roller or a scooter… on Friday evenings, Pari Roller meets you in front of the Paris-Montparnasse train station for a fun-filled ride! A free, supervised event for sports, socializing and fun!
Free activities in Paris: visit Paris museums and monuments for free
In Paris, some museums offer free admission to their permanent collections every day, all year round. These include the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Maison de Balzac, the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée Cernuschi, the Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris), the Maison de Victor Hugo and the Musée de la Vie Romantique. Free admission also includes the Musée national de la Légion d’honneur et des ordres de chevalerie, the Musée-Librairie du Compagnonnage, the Musée Curie, the Musée du parfum Fragonard, the Musée de la Préfecture de Police and the Arènes de Lutèce. Admission is also free to the Atelier Brancusi, the Plateau (Centre d’art contemporain), the Musée Zadkine, the Mémorial de la Shoah and the Musée d’Ennery (reservation required on Saturdays). Welcome to free Paris!