We are going to make you discover the city of Paris, and the essential places during the visit of the capital. Paris is the capital of France. Divided into twenty arrondissements, it is the capital of the Île-de-France region and the seat of the Greater Paris metropolis. It is established in the center of the Paris Basin, on a loop of the Seine, between the confluences with the Marne and the Oise. The city underwent profound transformations under the Second Empire, giving the old medieval Paris the face of modern Paris, characterized by large boulevards and open squares.