The Palais de Chaillot, perched in the 16th high up on the western bank of the Seine, offers classic views over the Eiffel Tower - the view across the river from the building’s wide open piazza is world famous, and an essential stop on every tourist itinerary.
The palais itself contains France’s national film institute, just [...]
Solid parisian living in the 15th arrondissement, one of the largest and most middle class residential districts in the city. Plenty of French families inhabit the 15th’s leafy streets, which offer a decent assortment of local shops and cafes.
While the central and southern sections of the quarter offer cheaper property, the district’s northern and western [...]
The 14th arrondissement encloses the famous and lively district of Montparnasse, a popular hang out for the anglo-american expats who escaped to Paris during the 1920s. While there’s little literary culture remaining, the bars enjoyed by Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald and their contemporaries are still going strong: Le Dome, la Coupole and La Rotonde are [...]
The 13th arrondissement is a middle and lower income residential district just south of the friendly communities of the Latin Quarter. It’s liveliest around Place D’Italie, a busy road junction that boasts a good handful of bars along the quiet, narrow streets that lead onto it, and on the Butte aux Cailles, a small hill [...]
The 12th arrondissement is a pleasant, middle class residential district, well served with local life and a fair amount of open space. Running straight across the heart of the quarter, the Promenade Plantee might well claim to be one Paris’ strangest Parks - once a train line, it’s now a pedestrian pathway lined with flowerbeds [...]
