Belly visits France in The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3’s Paris storyline.
Paris is the capital of France and becomes the setting for the season’s final stretch. Belly travels there in connection with studying abroad, giving her physical distance from Cousins Beach and the complicated history surrounding Jeremiah and Conrad.
The country is often confused with Spain because Belly studies abroad in Spain in Jenny Han’s original third novel, We’ll Always Have Summer. The television adaptation changes that destination to Paris, France, making the show’s version distinct from the book’s geography.
The Paris setting also introduces new characters and allows the finale to stage major encounters outside the United States. This change is one of the clearest differences between the television adaptation and its literary source.