Paris Notre-Dame Guided Tour with Cathedral Free Entry
Highlights
- Enjoy a simple introduction to Paris's island cathedral; listen to its stories outside with a guide, then go in afterward on your own schedule.
- With your expert guide, take a focused walk around the façades, portals, towers, and gargoyles, with cathedral entry included after the tour.
- Learn how Notre-Dame has evolved through the centuries as your guide tells of fire and restoration, along with Île de la Cité legends and daily life.
- Gaze up at the carved west front, Gallery of Kings, rose windows, bell towers, gargoyles, and flying buttresses while your guide highlights the details.
- Choose an upgrade to a small-group tour or an interior guided visit with official headsets, and select from English, Spanish, French, Italian, or German commentary depending on your ticket.
Your experience Begin with a 60-minute guided tour of Notre-Dame, then receive help getting in for a self-led look inside. Getting started Your professional guide will meet you close to Notre-Dame Cathedral on the Île de la Cité; you'll join either a shared or small-group tour, based on the option you choose.
Your experience
Begin with a 60-minute guided tour of Notre-Dame, then receive help getting in for a self-led look inside.
Getting started
Your professional guide will meet you close to Notre-Dame Cathedral on the Île de la Cité; you'll join either a shared or small-group tour, based on the option you choose. After a short overview of the cathedral’s 850-year past and the 2019 fire and restoration, your guide takes you to the building’s western side to start examining the details up close.
What to expect
Notre-Dame Paris Tickets
Your visit begins with the architecture and stories of Notre-Dame, then moves on to your own self-guided time within the cathedral.
Features
-
Discover Notre-Dame as your guide points out its sculpted portals, rose windows, gargoyles, flying buttresses, and the restoration after the 2019 fire.
-
Learn about the cathedral's ties to medieval Paris, Victor Hugo, and, on select English-guided tours, Napoleon Bonaparte.
-
Join a guide speaking English, Spanish, French, Italian, or German in a shared or small-group tour, depending on your ticket choice.
-
Once the 60-minute tour ends, take advantage of assisted entry for a self-guided interior visit, or upgrade to an official guided interior tour with headsets.
-
Please note: Notre-Dame Cathedral offers free public admission. This experience includes a reserved entry slot and a guided tour, not admission to the cathedral itself.