Neighborhood guides

Between the 10th and 11th arrondissements, the Canal Saint-Martin runs for just over four kilometers past locks, iron footbridges and pla...

Le Marais, across the 3rd and 4th arrondissements, can be covered on foot in half a day to a full day; the easiest plan is to start at Sa...

Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement, takes 3 to 4 hours to visit: climb to the Sacré-Cœur (free entry), stroll Place du Tertre, then w...

The Latin Quarter, on the Left Bank (5th and 6th arrondissements), can be explored on foot in half a day: start at Saint-Michel, then cli...

Once the intellectual heart of the Left Bank, Saint-Germain-des-Prés saw philosophers, writers and artists pass through its cafés from th...

A former independent town annexed by Paris in 1860, Belleville has long welcomed the capital's newest arrivals: workers in the 19th centu...

A former winegrowers' village left untouched by Haussmann's grand renovation, the Butte-aux-Cailles has kept a layout of narrow lanes and...

Les Halles is the 1st-arrondissement district around Châtelet-Les Halles station (metro 1, 4, 7, 11, 14; RER A, B, D) and the Forum des H...

What is left of the Bastille? Of the fortress stormed on 14 July 1789, almost nothing: an outline on the ground, foundation remains on th...

Until the 1960s, Bercy was Paris's great wine market: barrels arrived by the Seine and piled up in long warehouses, the chais. The distri...

The Champs-Élysées is first of all a perspective: laid out from 1667 by André Le Nôtre as an extension of the Tuileries Garden, the avenu...

Île Saint-Louis is the quietest neighborhood in central Paris. Set in the Seine behind the Île de la Cité and linked to it by the Pont Sa...

La Défense is the main business district of the Paris region, but also a major open-air architecture site. Located west of Paris in the m...

The Saint-Michel quarter of Paris, on the Left Bank (on the border of the 5th and 6th arrondissements), can be visited on foot in 2 to 3 ...

The Trocadéro, on the Chaillot hill in the 16th arrondissement, owes its fame above all to a viewpoint: from the esplanade of the Palais ...

Rue Crémieux is a short, cobbled, pedestrian street in the 12th arrondissement, between rue de Lyon and rue de Bercy, near Gare de Lyon. ...

Rue Mouffetard, nicknamed "la Mouffe", is a sloping street about 650 metres long in the 5th arrondissement, in the heart of the Latin Qua...

Where to stay in Paris for the first time? Around the Opéra Garnier (9th and 2nd arrondissements). From there you can walk to almost ever...

The Café de Flore (172 boulevard Saint-Germain) and Les Deux Magots (6 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés) are two neighbouring cafés in the 6t...

The Canal de l'Ourcq starts at the Bassin de la Villette (19th arrondissement) and runs to Pantin and the north-eastern suburbs. The clas...

The place du Tertre is the small cobbled square of the Montmartre painters, in the 18th arrondissement, about two minutes' walk from the ...

The place Vendôme is an octagonal square in the 1st arrondissement, next to the Tuileries Garden and the rue de la Paix. Laid out from 16...

The Pont des Arts is a pedestrian-only footbridge linking the Louvre to the Institut de France, between the 1st and 6th arrondissements. ...

The rue des Martyrs is a long sloping street climbing from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette towards Pigalle and Montmartre, on the border of the 9th...

The rue Montorgueil is a pedestrian shopping street in the 1st and 2nd arrondissements, between the Les Halles district and the Sentier. ...

The Batignolles is a neighbourhood of the 17th arrondissement that still feels like a village: a square laid out as an English garden, a ...

The Chinese quarter of the 13th arrondissement, the largest in Paris, spreads over the triangle formed by avenue d'Ivry, avenue de Choisy...

A cruise on the Canal Saint-Martin links the Arsenal marina (Bastille) with the Bassin de la Villette in about 2h30, passing locks and sw...

Passage Brady is a covered arcade in the 10th arrondissement, opened in 1828, and the heart of Paris's "Little India": Indian restaurants...

Rue Oberkampf and its neighbours rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud and rue Parmentier make up one of the liveliest going-out areas of east Paris (1...

Pigalle is the district around the square of the same name, at the foot of the Montmartre hill (9th and 18th). It takes its name from the...

The Montparnasse district (14th and 15th arrondissements) can be visited in half a day: the Montparnasse Tower (210 m, built from 1969 to...