The Butte-aux-Cailles with the family | Street Art, guided tours, curiosities...

The most rural of Parisian neighborhoods
In the 13th arrondissement

What are the points of interest in the Butte-aux-Cailles district? If you walk in this part of the 13th, you will discover the Manufacture des Gobelins (open to the public for guided tours and only by reservation), the Sainte-Anne de la Butte-aux-Cailles church (formerly Sainte-Anne de la Maison-Blanche), Street Art (with the works of Miss Tic) on the four corners of the streets (rather ephemeral works), the Wallace Fountain on the hill (at the corner of the rue de la Butte aux Cailles and the rue de l’espérance), a fountain that we owe to Richard Walace, the Place de la Commune de Paris (it owes its name to the commemorations of the events of the Paris Commune of 1871), the Albert Tower built in 1958 (the very first housing skyscraper), the Passage Barrault (a small paved road lined with townhouses with courtyards or gardens), the Artésien well (the water it contains is several tens of thousands of years old). Another curiosity in the Butte-aux-Cailles district is the Art Deco style swimming pool on Place Verlaine. It is one of the oldest swimming pools in Paris.

In this district, there are no skyscrapers or tall buildings, but charming little buildings, small houses, with courtyards and gardens, narrow cobbled streets… A crazy charm ! Among the must-see addresses in the district, the restaurant Chez Gladines.

Ideas for outings and activities in Butte-aux-Cailles

Nice addresses in the Butte-aux-Cailles

Chez Gladines, a real institution in the neighborhood
To drink tea or to connect, L’Oisiveté at 1, rue Jean Marie Jégo (small terrace when the weather is nice)