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Undiscovered Paris
Artists’ Paris | Glamorous Paris | Hip Paris | Monumental Paris | Mythical Paris | Paris chic | Party-time Paris | People’s Paris | Timeless Paris | Village Paris
A multitude of distinctively different worlds, all within a few hundred metres of one another. There is a small village of tiny streets at the top of a landscaped hill - the Butte-aux-Cailles; an area of buildings with signs covered in ideograms behind the Place d’Italie; an old station that saw the first TGVs (high-speed |
Bercy, Tolbiac, Viaduc des Arts, Bois de Vincennes
The city is on the move, particularly in the east, where the districts of Bercy and Tolbiac are changing the skyline. It's 21st-century Paris that is being built on the banks of the Seine…
trains); a garden walk along an elevated railway line transformed into the Viaduc des Arts; the former wine storehouses in Bercy; the National Library in the shape of open books beside the river and even a Tibetan temple in the Bois de Vincennes! This eastern part of Paris covers a huge area where everything is designed to make you feel at home. Wooded parks have been created amongst huge buildings; there are cinema complexes, new shopping centres, markets – a new district is emerging rue Louise Weiss…