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Belleville, from the Boulevard to the Viewpoint
Where two streets meet, you'll hear how the Commune ended, with one man alone on a barricade and a young volunteer nurse nobody ever saw again.
Neighbourhoods and Everyday Life in Paris: audio walks
How did ordinary people live in the centre of Paris?
6 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
Explore these walksEveryday Paris can be recognised through markets, trades and ways of using the street. These walks give residents as much attention as buildings, with each neighbourhood helping to tell a different city. Follow their changes and routines to approach the history of people who worked and lived behind Paris's grand, familiar images.
In “The Jewish Marais and its Mansions”: Rents, the immigrants' street and rescued buildings approach the Marais through the lives of its different communities.
In “The Panthéon and the Rue Mouffetard”: You head down to the Contrescarpe, where Hemingway lived in two rooms, and along the Mouffetard, the poorest district in Paris according to an eighteenth-century writer, where in 1938 workmen found Louis XV's gold inside a wall.
In “Belleville, from the Boulevard”: Where two streets meet, you'll hear how the Commune ended, with one man alone on a barricade and a young volunteer nurse nobody ever saw again.
Choose from 6 independent walks in Paris. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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The Canal Saint-Martin and the Grange-aux-Belles
Then come the chapel of a hospital for plague victims, the rise where the great gallows of Paris stood, and a square that was an arena for animal fights before it took the name of a Resistance fighter and gained Niemeyer's dome.
The Jewish Marais and its Mansions: from Saint-Gervais to Carnavalet
Rents, the immigrants' street and rescued buildings approach the Marais through the lives of its different communities.
Painters' Montmartre: from Rue Cortot to the Moulin Rouge
You start in Rue Cortot, at the seventeenth-century house where Renoir rented a studio and where Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo later settled.
Montparnasse: From the Cafés to the Cemetery
In Rue Delambre, the doorway where Hemingway met Fitzgerald and, in the same street, the Mission Bretonne: the other Montparnasse, the thousands of Bretons who stepped off the train at the station next door to dig the Métro or go into service in wealthy homes, while the Americans raised their glasses.
The Panthéon and the Rue Mouffetard
You head down to the Contrescarpe, where Hemingway lived in two rooms, and along the Mouffetard, the poorest district in Paris according to an eighteenth-century writer, where in 1938 workmen found Louis XV's gold inside a wall.
Paris, before you go
Paris works best a neighbourhood at a time. Combine a walk, a pause and another look: the distances on the map can be deceptive.
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