Unique Hemingway Tour : a travel in time in 1920 Paris

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  • Price from
    €70
  • Duration
    1 h 30 min
  • Group size
    Up to 15 travellers
  • Guide languages
    English, French

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    Overview

    Meet Ernest Hemingway !

    Imagine yourself in Paris and the Twenties are roaring away! Ernest Hemingway himself takes you through the neighborhood that inspired so many of his masterpieces

    Celebrate the city of light with a 22 year old journalist on his first foreign assignment in the City of Light. Your actor guide as this unparalleled raconteur shows you around the streets he knew and loved, telling you their secrets as well as those of the larger than life characters that surrounded him and made Paris’s expat enclave a part of history.

    What's included

    • An immersive street tour with a professional actor staging Hemingway

    Not included

    • Street tour : the tour stays outside the mentionned buildings; it stops in front of the façade

    What you will do

    • Luxembourg Gardens

      Enjoy a private theatrical show staged for you on the very places it all happened.

      Stroll through one of the beautiful gardens of Paris, share this very parisian passion for a chat on the lawn or on the metallic chairs. Enjoy Hemingway telling you about his bohemian life, his writter's challenges or how his wife lost the manuscript of his last novel. A brilliant introduction to A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingwa's masterpiece about Paris.

      With him you will strol through the Luxembourg gardens, from Grand Bassin to the small repliqua of the Liberty statue that is hidden there.

      Hemingway will entertain you with the stories of his meals and "gourmand" moments while telling you about the stroy of the Luxembourg gardens and how this small Liberty Statue arrived there.

      15 min

    • In front of the statue, in the Luxembourg gardens, Hemingway will describe his favourite French food while going on with his misadventures in Paris

      10 min

    • Enjoy Hemingway's stories about the different cafés, bars and restaurants he used to go to.

      Discover about the Dôme, the Falstaff, La Closerie des Lillas. ANd re-live the moments he shared there : eating, drinking, writing, chatting and sometimes, even, fihgting...

      10 min

    • Your immersive stroll now stops by the door of the building Hemingway used to live in. Time for more stories and discoveries about the hidden facets of the best seller author.

      5 min

    • la Closerie des Lilas was one of Hemingway's favourite cafés. It has now become one of the fanciest restaurants of Paris.

      10 min

    • Hemingway gets intimate as he tells about his relations with Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrud Stein, Sylvia Beach or Zelda his wife. More stories about the lost generation, its dreams and dramas.

      10 min

    Meeting point

    The meeting point is In front of 69 boulevard Saint Michel, 75005 Paris Metro station : RER B : Luxembourg station"

    End point: The tour ends in front of Closerie des Lillas : 171, boulevard du Montparnasse, 75006 Paris. An excellent occasion to enter one of hemingway's prefeered cafés and have a drink or a meal!

    Important information

    • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transportation options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

    Cancellation policy

    For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.