Filming locations in Paris

Paris plays itself so often that a set-jetting visit here is really a greatest-hits walk through the city's most photogenic corners. Emily in Paris leans on it hardest: the show treats the city as a co-star, lingering on the quiet Latin Quarter square of Place de l'Estrapade, where Emily's apartment building and its downstairs bistro stand, before sweeping up to the gilded Palais Garnier opera house and the ornate Pont Alexandre III over the Seine.

The same series threads in the arcaded Jardin du Palais-Royal, with its striped Buren columns, and the red-banquette Café de Flore in Saint-Germain, a Paris institution Emily drifts through. The beauty for visitors is that these are all real, free or cheap to admire, and close enough to fold into one day on foot across the Left and Right Banks. Mornings give you the squares and colonnades almost to yourself.

Paris is generous to other screen pilgrims too. Amélie fans can sip a coffee at the still-trading Café des Deux Moulins in Montmartre, then walk down to the Canal Saint-Martin where she skips stones across the water. The Latin Quarter holds Midnight in Paris stops at the steps of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, where a vintage car carries the hero back to the 1920s, and at the sculpture garden of the Musée Rodin.

There is even a heist on the map: Lupin opens at the Louvre Pyramid, whose floodlit courtyard is free to wander any hour, though the museum itself needs a timed ticket and closes on Tuesdays. String these by Metro line and neighbourhood rather than chasing them at random, base yourself centrally on either bank, and aim for sunrise or the blue hour at the bridges and palace, when the light is best and the crowds thinnest.