Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

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Overview

Fashionable bars and restaurants, emerging designers’ boutiques, the city’s thriving gay and Jewish communities, and some excellent museums all squeeze into Le Marais’ warren of narrow medieval lanes. Neighbouring Ménilmontant has some of the city’s most happening nightlife, while hilly Belleville is a vibrant multicultural neighbourhood with interesting dining and drinking spots and one of Paris' most colourful street markets.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • Pere Lachaise Cemetery

    Cimetière du Père Lachaise

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Opened in 1804, Père Lachaise is the world's most visited cemetery. Its 70,000 ornate tombs of the rich and famous form a verdant, 44-hectare sculpture…

  • Shoah Memorial at the Holocaust museum in Paris, France.

    Mémorial de la Shoah

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Established in 1956, the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr has metamorphosed into the Memorial of the Shoah – 'Shoah' is a Hebrew word meaning …

  • Musée National Picasso

    Musée National Picasso

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    One of Paris’ most treasured art collections is showcased inside the mid-17th-century Hôtel Salé, an exquisite private mansion owned by the city since…

  • Atelier des Lumières

    Atelier des Lumières

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    A former foundry dating from 1835 that supplied iron for the French navy and railroads now houses Paris' first digital-art museum. The 1500-sq-metre La…

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    Musée des Arts et Métiers

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    The Arts and Crafts Museum, dating to 1794 and Europe's oldest science and technology museum, is a must for families – or anyone with an interest in how…

  • Pavillon de l'Arsenal, exterior

    Pavillon de l'Arsenal

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Built in 1879 as a museum, this magnificent glass-roofed building with arched wrought-iron girders wasn't actually used as one until over a century later,…

  • Carnavalet Museum and gardens, Paris. (Photo by Independent Picture Service/UIG via Getty Images)

    Musée Carnavalet

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Paris' history museum, spanning Gallo-Roman times onwards, rambles over a pair of remarkable hôtels particuliers (private mansions), the 1560-built Hôtel…

  • Hôtel de Sully

    Hôtel de Sully

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    In the southwestern corner of place des Vosges, duck beneath the arch to find two beautifully decorated, late-Renaissance courtyards festooned with…

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A person is watching the study of the Hôtel Colbert de Villacerf recreated at the Carnavalet museum in Paris on May 21, 2021. - The Carnavalet museum will reopen on May 29, 2021 after a four-year period of renovation. (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images)

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