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Lingering over pain au chocolat in a sidewalk café, relaxing after a day of strolling along the Seine and marveling at icons like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe… the perfect Paris experience combines leisure and liveliness with enough time to savor both an exquisite meal and exhibits at the Louvre. Awaken your spirit at Notre Dame, bargain hunt at the Marché aux Puces de Montreuil or for goodies at the Marché Biologique Raspail, then cap it all off with a risqué show at the Moulin Rouge.
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1. La Tropicale
2. La Butte Aux Cailles
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4.5 based on 196 reviews
Reviewed By TV2451
If you can find a walking tour, this is a part of town where it is worth it. Otherwise find a good guide book that takes you through the area which is a little village on the edge of the city. It would be great to live here. Recently some great street art has emerged.
3. Fondation Jerome Seydoux-Pathe
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4.5 based on 28 reviews
Reconnue d'utilité publique le 9 mai 2006, la Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé oeuvre à la conservation et à la mise à disposition du public du patrimoine historique de Pathé. Regroupant l’ensemble des collections non-film de Pathé depuis sa création en 1896, la Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé est un centre de recherche destiné aux historiens, aux enseignants et aux étudiants, ainsi qu’à tous ceux qu’intéresse le cinéma. Par son activité, elle œuvre à la promotion de l’histoire du cinéma à travers l’histoire de Pathé. Le siège de la Fondation se situe dans un bâtiment exceptionnel, conçu par Renzo Piano. Séances de ciné-concerts, expositions, visites guidées, ateliers pédagogiques
4. Cite Florale
5. Tramway T3
6. French National Library (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
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4.0 based on 262 reviews
This modern glass and chrome masterpiece standing on the banks of the Seine River is also one of the largest research libraries in the world.
7. Manufacture des Gobelins
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4.0 based on 84 reviews
The National Furniture Administration and the National Tapestry and Carpet Manufactories have brought together at the Gobelins site four historic institutions that date back to the 17th century: The National Furniture Collection, the Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory, The Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory (some of the workshops are also located in Beauvais), and La Savonnerie Carpet Manufactory.The exhibition space known as "La Galerie des Gobelins" welcomes temporary exhibitions. GOBELINS TAPESTRY MANUFACTORY History Since 1662, when Louis XIV’s finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert decided to bring together all of the Parisian weaving and tapestry workshops as well as those set up in Maincy by Nicolas Fouquet in one location, the Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory has continued to play a key role in the history of tapestry. The workshop was named after a family of dyers, the Gobelins, who did business on the banks of the Bievre starting in the mid-15th century. Charles Le Brun, First Painter to Louis XIV, was the manufactory’s first director. He allowed not only painters and tapestry makers, but also goldsmiths, metal casters, engravers, and cabinetmakers to set up workshops at the Gobelins site. Under Le Brun’s supervision, the extraordinary tapestries produced at the manufactory, which were designed for the homes of French royalty and as diplomatic gifts, earned international renown that has survived for more than three centuries.
8. 13th Arrondissement
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4.0 based on 107 reviews
Situated on the Left Bank of the River Seine, it is home to Paris's principal Asian community, the Quartier Asiatique, located in the southeast of the arrondissement in an area that contains many high-rise apartment buildings. The neighborhood features a high concentration of ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese businesses. The 13th arrondissement also hosts the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand and the newly built business district of Paris Rive Gauche.
Reviewed By gmckirish - Collingswood, United States
We stayed in the 13 arr. in an apartment. The village within Paris was very special! It had an artist colon and included Chinatown. It also included a patisserie which was voted to have the best baguette in all of Paris! AND it was "right on " with that vote!
9. Les Docks
10. Pont de Bercy
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