Librairie Galignani

If I were to own my own bookshop, it might look something like this one. Its wooden shelves from the 1930s are well stocked with beautiful fine arts books, novels, biographies, cookbooks, and travel reads—in English and in French. This was the first English-language bookstore on the continent! When the weather allows, from mid-March to mid-October, stay for a cup of tea and a piece of cake in the museum’s garden tea salon. You’ll quickly forget you’re in a bustling city.