Midnight in Paris

The stone church steps where Gil sits at midnight and the vintage Peugeot picks him up into the past. Shot exactly here; the steps are unchanged.

Access · Exterior only

The English-language bookstore where Gil buys the memoir that drives the plot. It is Sylvia Beach's spiritual successor, so browse slowly.

Access · Open shop: from 10:00 Monday to Saturday, from 12:00 on Sunday; no photos inside

Home of Monet's Water Lilies panoramas, where Inez stands bored while Gil is transported. The oval rooms are the real star.

Access · Ticket required

Featured in the rain sequence of the opening montage, the bridge sets the film's romantic picture of Paris at night.

Access · Public space

The garden where Paul, Inez's know-it-all friend, lectures on Rodin and gets corrected by the museum guide, one of the film's funniest setups.

Access · Ticket required

Gil and Inez's hotel, a Parisian palace hotel playing itself. The ornate facade is recognizable in brief establishing shots.

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The film opens here: Gil Pender, an American screenwriter who dreams of 1920s Paris, stands with his fiancée Inez by the water-lily pond and footbridge of Claude Monet's garden, already lost in his romantic idea of France. The house and gardens where Monet lived and painted are open to visitors.

Access · Ticket required; open seasonally, check dates and hours before you go

In the palace gardens, Paul, Inez's know-it-all friend, dismisses Gil's longing for the past as 'Golden Age thinking'. The palace returns near the end: the private detective hired by Inez's father to follow Gil takes a wrong turn in time and ends up lost in the 18th-century palace, chased by royal guards. Both the gardens and the interiors were filmed here.

Access · Ticket required for the palace; check opening days and hours before you go

On Gil's first night in the 1920s, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald bring him to this old Left Bank bistro, where he sits down with Ernest Hemingway. Polidor's wood-panelled dining room needed little dressing to pass for the 1920s, and it is still a working restaurant.

Access · Restaurant; check opening hours before you go

Gil and Inez have an awkward meal with her conservative parents in this historic restaurant under the arcades of the Palais-Royal, and run into Paul, Inez's pedantic old friend, and his wife Carol. The gilded 18th-century dining room appears as it is.

Access · Restaurant, reservation needed; check opening before you go. The Palais-Royal garden and arcades are public

One night in the past, Gil finds himself at a party among the stuffed animals of this old natural-history shop, where he meets the Surrealists and pitches a film idea to a puzzled Luis Buñuel. Deyrolle, with its rooms full of taxidermy, butterflies and shells upstairs, is still open.

Access · Open shop; check opening hours before you go

The 1920s party where Gil joins his new friends among old merry-go-rounds and fairground rides was filmed in this private museum of fairground art, set in the former wine warehouses of Bercy. It is also where Gil confronts Hemingway.

Access · Visits mainly on booked guided tours: check before you go

At the Saint-Ouen flea market, just north of Paris, Gil meets Gabrielle, a young antiques dealer who sells him a Cole Porter record and shares his love of the 1920s. Location guides place the scene in Marché Paul Bert, one of the market's antique sections.

Access · Open mainly at weekends: check days and hours before you go

A horse-drawn carriage carries Gil and Adriana, a 1920s Parisienne he has fallen for, even further back in time to the Belle Époque, and they step into Maxim's, the Art Nouveau restaurant that was the height of fashion around 1900. Adriana is enchanted and wants to stay in that era.

Access · Restaurant; check opening and booking before you go

Gil, Inez and her friends Paul and Carol go to a wine tasting on the rooftop terrace of this palace hotel facing the Tuileries garden, with the roofs of Paris all around. Paul holds forth on wine while Gil itches to get back to his walks.

Access · Hotel: the rooftop is not a public terrace; the facade is visible from Rue de Rivoli. Ask the hotel about access

In this garden behind Notre-Dame, Gil asks a museum guide (played by Carla Bruni) to translate a diary he found at a bookstall: it was written by Adriana, the 1920s woman he has fallen for, and it says she dreamt of him. The cathedral's apse rises behind them.

Access · Public garden, but access has been limited during the Notre-Dame works and the redesign of its surroundings: check before you go

Gil and Adriana walk through this quiet triangular square on the Île de la Cité and sit outside Restaurant Paul, at number 15, when a horse-drawn carriage pulls up and takes them back to the Belle Époque.

Access · Public square; Restaurant Paul is a working restaurant

The vintage Peugeot that picks Gil up at midnight drops him at a party in a grand house on this Île Saint-Louis quay, his first stop in the 1920s. There he meets F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, with Cole Porter at the piano.

Access · Public quay; the houses are private, view from outside. People live here: keep your voice down and don't ring the bells.

A short scene: Inez and her mother look at rings in the jeweller's on the corner of Place Vendôme, chatting about diamonds and doubting that Gil is a reliable match. The octagonal square of luxury jewellers is just as it appears in the film.

Access · Public square; shop interiors are for customers