Cité Rouge | Belleville
Located on either side of rue de Belleville, the Cité Rouge – Belleville district, on the 19th century, has some lovely architectural surprises and a lively living environment.
Lined with modern buildings, small houses on the hillside adorned with Virginia creeper and old rehabilitated workshops, the district offers a mixed urban landscape with a varied architectural style.
Annexed to the city of Paris in the 1860s, the Belleville district is known for having welcomed a working-class population that marked its urban fabric. The Cité Rouge, built in 1929, fully invests the Art Deco style with its buildings with canted sides, their bow windows and their facades punctuated by bricks in different shades of red.
At the end of the Villa Marcel Lods impasse are the former Odoul warehouses, designed by the architects and urban planners Marcel Lods and Eugène Beaudoin.
A modern masterpiece designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, the headquarters of the French Communist Party has been listed as a historical monument since 2007. It features retro futuristic architecture with undulating and fully glazed facades.
Artistic life is very active in the Cité-Rouge-Belleville district, and its atypical side contributes to its charm.
