Description
Batignolles, a district at the northern edge of Paris in the 17th, is surprisingly kept off the radar from a travel perspective, despite being a fairly fancy neighborhood.
One possible reason could be that it doesn’t conceal any landmarks or host that many museums, comparatively to more central districts.
Nonetheless, It offers a very interesting contrast between a fairly bourgeois residential quarter on the one hand, and an unusually modern park, mixing greenery, water and futuristic housing, on the other hand.
On this tour, we’ll get a glimpse of these various aspects that make the identity of Batignolles: strolling through a fancy 19th-century English garden, enjoying a coffee break with a panoramic view on this modern park delivered in the 2010’s, weaving our way through an astonishing bourgeois residential alley..
We’ll conclude the tour either in a friendly local café or a trendy cultural third space (subject to opening days).
Highlights
- Both old-fashoned and modern parks
- Local neighborhood feel
- Passage in a bourgeois private street
- Cultural third space in a former train station
