Seven reasons
to leave the obvious Paris.
Paris, France
Paris, Beyond the Love Stories
Paris has a talent for making everything look romantic.
The cafés. The balconies. The little streets you accidentally spend an hour wandering through. Even the rain seems to know what it's doing here.
But some of the most interesting women in Paris weren't particularly interested in playing the romantic lead.
They had other plans.
A filmmaker made an entire world out of the people living on her street. An artist turned the complicated business of being human into extraordinary sculptures. A philosopher questioned almost everything society had decided about being a woman.
And then there was Joséphine Baker, who arrived in Paris and became someone the city would remember in more ways than one.
Their stories are scattered through places you might already have on your walking route.
A small street in the 14th arrondissement. A garden beside an old palace. A doorway in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Panthéon, where France decides whom it wants to remember.
Some of these places look exactly as you'd expect.
Others give absolutely nothing away.
What connects these women isn't that they all wanted the same kind of freedom. They didn't.
Some cared about art. Some about ideas. Some about love, or justice, or finding a way to live that made sense to them.
And Paris gave each of them something different to work with.
It's worth remembering that the city of love has also been a city of arguments, experiments, difficult decisions, and women who were much more complicated than the stories told about them.
Which, frankly, makes Paris considerably more interesting.
There are seven stories waiting here.
You can still spend the afternoon at a café afterward.
You may just have a few more things to think about over your coffee.
Choose one.
You don't need to know what happens before you go. You only need somewhere worth walking toward.
Paris · 7 portals
Portal 01 · THE RADIUS
Rue Daguerre
Portal 02 · THE REPAIR
174 Boulevard Saint-Germain
Portal 03 · THE SEVENTH FLOOR
3 Rue Auguste-Comte
Portal 04 · THE RIVER
Fontaine Médicis · Jardin du Luxembourg
Portal 05 · THE DISTANCE
11 bis Rue Victor-Schoelcher → Cimetière du Montparnasse
Portal 06 · THE DOOR SHE LEFT BY
5 bis Rue de Verneuil
Portal 07 · VAULT 13
Panthéon · Crypte · Caveau XIII
How it works here.
- 01 Find Open PORTALS and see the Paris experiences on the map.
- 02 Go Choose one and make your way to the real-world place.
- 03 Unlock The location-specific experience opens when you're close enough.
- 04 Experience What happens next belongs to the place you actually went to.
- 05 Keep Completed portals can become part of your personal journey.
Built for going alone.
JUNO PORTALS is designed primarily for women traveling alone.
That doesn't mean every experience has to be solitary. It means the product starts from a simple reality: sometimes you're already here, the day is yours, and you'd like a reason to go somewhere you might otherwise have passed.
We don't give you an itinerary.
We give you a reason to go.
Before you go.
Read the access note for the portal you choose. Some places are further out than they look on the map, and some are private or working places you only see from outside.
VAULT 13 needs a ticket or paid entry.
THE RIVER and THE DISTANCE depend on opening hours.
Prices and hours change. Check them on the day.
Curiosity gets you there. Your judgment always comes first.
Questions about PORTALS in Paris.
How many JUNO PORTALS are there in Paris?
There are currently seven published JUNO PORTALS experiences in Paris: THE RADIUS, THE REPAIR, THE SEVENTH FLOOR, THE RIVER, THE DISTANCE, THE DOOR SHE LEFT BY and VAULT 13.
Where are the JUNO PORTALS in Paris?
Each portal is tied to one real place: THE RADIUS (Rue Daguerre), THE REPAIR (174 Boulevard Saint-Germain), THE SEVENTH FLOOR (3 Rue Auguste-Comte), THE RIVER (Fontaine Médicis · Jardin du Luxembourg), THE DISTANCE (11 bis Rue Victor-Schoelcher → Cimetière du Montparnasse), THE DOOR SHE LEFT BY (5 bis Rue de Verneuil) and VAULT 13 (Panthéon · Crypte · Caveau XIII).
How do JUNO PORTALS unlock in Paris?
Open the PORTALS map, choose a portal and go to its real-world location. You can see the portal on the map before you arrive. The experience itself unlocks only when you are close enough to the place.
Do any JUNO PORTALS in Paris need a ticket or have opening hours?
Yes. VAULT 13 needs a ticket or paid entry. THE RIVER and THE DISTANCE depend on opening hours. The other portals are at free, public places. Check current prices and hours before you go.
Somewhere else?
- France & Monaco Côte d’Azur A painter, a tennis star, an architect and one very particular villa owner, on a coast that only looks effortless.
- Italy Florence In Florence, a biblical heroine keeps getting moved and, legend has it, a young woman knocks at home after her own funeral.
- Italy Rome Rome remembers its emperors with ease, while its women wait in temples, inscriptions and the gaps where their names should be.
Pick one.
Then go there.
You don't need to know what's inside.
That's the point.