Where was Amélie filmed?

Few films have done more to romanticise Paris than this gentle Montmartre fairy tale, and that is exactly why it still pulls travellers up the hill decades on. Its palette of warm reds and greens, its quiet acts of kindness and its eye for tiny everyday details turn an ordinary corner of the city into something worth seeking out in person.

The good news for fans is that the key spots are real and within easy reach of one another. The Café des Deux Moulins, the Montmartre brasserie where the heroine waits tables, is a working café whose long zinc bar and mirrors look much as they do on screen. Down the slope, the tree-lined Canal Saint-Martin with its iron footbridges is where she famously skips stones across the water. Both sit in Paris, France.

Pair a morning coffee at the café with a wander through the lanes of Montmartre, then drift east to the canal for a late-afternoon stroll along the quays. It is an easy half-day on foot, and folding in the wider Right Bank makes for a relaxed, very Parisian set-jetting day.