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The 20th arrondissement is a working class but increasingly yuppified district on the eastern-most border of the city. It incorporates the immigrant communities in the district of Belleville - a quarter that now combines it’s North African and Eastern influences into a kind of scruffy urban chic. The Parc de Belleville, a steep, terraced park offers excellent views westwood over the city centre.

Tourists flock to Pere Lachaise Cemetary, sited on the twentieth arrondissement’s western border. The largest cemetery in Paris, Pere Lachaise is stuffed with the famous dead - politicians, writers and all kinds of great historical figures are laid to rest in this small city of miniature tombs.

While a little richer and quieter than the neighbouring 19th arrondissement, the 20th remains a slightly down-at-heel outer district, and in the evening some parts can be relatively uninviting.

More Paris districts:

1st - Louvre 2nd - Bourse 3rd - Temple 4th - Islands 5th - Latin Quarter 6th - St Germain 7th - Eiffel Tower 8th - Champs Elysees 9th - Opera 10th - Gare du Nord Suburbs - les Banlieues

11th - Bastille 12th - Bercy 13th - Bibliotheque Nationale 14th - Montparnasse 15th - Vaugirard 16th - Trocadero 17th - Batignolles 18th - Montmartre 19th - Buttes-Chaumont 20th - Belleville Suburbs - La Defense