A historic district full of heritage, the village of Saint-Paul is characterised by its small passages, its enchanting arches and is a lovely labyrinth of paved courtyards and shady passages. Its calm and authentic atmosphere is home to a multitude of small craftsmen, gallery owners and passionate antique dealers. It is the ideal place to find unusual objects, from 18th century pieces to those from the 1970s. There are also a number of gourmet addresses and pretty decoration shops in the spirit of the moment.

The district is home to superb museums, private mansions dating from the 16th and 17th centuries and buildings that bear witness to the history of France. On Rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, you will discover the Shoah memorial built in the 1950s by the architects Alexandre Perzitz, Georges Goldberg and Léon Arretche.

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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.

The Père Lachaise district takes on a country look with its pedestrian alleys and small pavilions. It is known as the home of the most famous cemetery in Paris. Perched on a hill of nearly 44 hectares, the Père Lachaise cemetery offers the possibility of a beautiful stroll in an incomparable, romantic and bucolic atmosphere. Stroll along the flowered alleys where many personalities are buried, and enjoy the view of all Paris while sitting under the shelter of a flowering tree.

The streets around the cemetery offer a rural landscape in the middle of Paris. Walk along Rue Stendhal until you come upon the Church of Saint-Germain de Charonne, a historic monument of Romanesque architecture and the only church in Paris to have retained its own cemetery. Around the very lively Rue de Bagnolet, you will find a number of pretty pedestrian streets, where you will find secret addresses that you must discover.

This area of the 14th arrondissement has a country atmosphere and is full of unusual places and charming views. Its inhabitants appreciate the green spaces, picturesque streets and architectural masterpieces that give it a unique charm.

The Parc Montsouris, one of the largest green spaces in the capital, has become a favourite place to relax for its residents. They love to stroll through its sublime English-style gardens, to meet on the banks of its lake, or to wander among its thousands of trees that change with the seasons.

Around the park, the cobbled streets once attracted artists such as Braque, Seurat, Lurçat and Soutine. At 53 avenue Reille, Le Corbusier also left his mark by building the villa-atelier Ozenfant, built in 1923 opposite the Montsouris reservoir, a cathedral of underground water cut into the rock. On Rue Nansouty, André Lurçat’s Villa Guggenbühl, a symbol of modern architecture, whose play of vertical and horizontal lines impresses with its lightness and rigour, is unveiled. On the other side of Boulevard Jourdan, the Cité Internationale Universitaire houses students from all over the world and regularly offers activities to Parisians.

An unchanging setting and the nerve centre of the district, the Place des Abbesses delights lovers of a postcard Paris and bohemian chic life.  Facing its ancient carousel and Wallace fountain, the square is also home to the deepest metro station in Paris, known for its ornate mouth, an artwork by Hector Guimard. This Art Nouveau aedicule is one of the last three of its kind in Paris. It used to stand in front of the Hôtel de Ville and was only moved to the Abbesses station in 1974.

The Saint-Jean de Montmartre church, inaugurated in 1904 and classified as a historic monument in 1966, was the first to be built in reinforced concrete. Covered with red bricks and decorated with enamelled sandstone pastilles, it offers an original architecture mixing Byzantine and Art Nouveau styles.

Although the big fashion names have joined the district, you can still find old-fashioned shops, artists’ studios, cafés, restaurants, and small businesses in Abbesses, where both residents and visitors meet cheerfully. An authentic and lively atmosphere, unique.

Essentially made up of streets and pedestrian lanes beautifully decorated with flowers, the Pernety district breaks away from the purely Haussmannian style and reveals charming brick buildings. With its commercial and authentic character, it is easy to immerse yourself in its unique atmosphere.

In the Rue des Thermopyles, you can wander between the old workers’ houses, the overflowing wisteria and some works of street artists, which make this place one of the most colourful in the capital. In Place de Séoul, we discover the architectural complex designed by Ricardo Bofill in 1985. A veritable glass amphitheatre, the place contrasts with the neighbourhood’s universe, imposing its monumental style in all discretion. The district is also subject to an ecological project, with the City of Paris planning to plant an urban micro-forest on the Place de Catalogne by 2024.

A former industrial city, the district is still home to the incredible Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, which has been making tapestries for French palaces for over four centuries. This world-famous institution is also home to the Mobilier National, built by Auguste Perret in 1934, where the greatest craftsmen collaborate with artists such as Fernand Léger, Alexandre Calder, Sonia Delaunay and the new guard of contemporary designers, giving birth to original woven works.

Not far away, on Boulevard Arago, lies the extraordinary secret garden of the Cité Fleurie. A former collection of artists’ studios built in the middle of lush vegetation at the end of the 19th century for the Universal Exhibition, this place conveys the soul of its illustrious residents, from Paul Gauguin to Amedeo Modigliani.

The Gobelins district is very pleasant to live in and offers many cultural spaces, local shops and green spaces to its residents. Its Haussmannian buildings stand side by side with small houses lining green and flowery alleys.

A former religious stronghold of the capital, the district owes its name to the Val-de-Grâce abbey located on the Place Alphonse Laveran. A rare Parisian building in the Baroque style, this church was built by François Mansart on the orders of Queen Anne of Austria for the birth of Louis XIV. During the Revolution, the abbey became a military hospital, which has now been converted into a museum for the Army Medical Corps.

This district is also home to numerous university sites and research institutes such as the Curie Institute, one of the most important in France. Rue d’Ulm is home to the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, which has held a prominent place in the history of creation and design in France for many years. Restructured by the famous architects Philippe Starck and Luc Arsène-Henry in 2004, the building has a strong identity with its white Carrara marble façade.