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I Love Touring Paris - The Sixteenth Arrondissement

The sixteenth arrondissement is located on the Right Bank of the Seine River in western Paris. This arrondissement hosts the famous chestnut tree lined Avenue Foch, the widest street in Paris, and lots and lots of embassies. If you’re getting the idea that it’s one of the richest corners of the city, you’re right on. Its land area is about 6.3 square miles (16.3 square kilometers) but if you exclude the Bois de Boulogne the size drops in half to 3 square miles (about 7.8 square kilometers). The population numbers slightly over one hundred sixty thousand and the district hosts over one hundred thousand jobs. This is the only arrondissement to merit two postal codes, both considered exclusive and featured on micro sd. Read more »

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I Love Touring Paris - The Thirteenth Arrondissement

The thirteenth arrondissement of southeastern Paris is located on the Left Bank of the Seine River. Its land area is relatively large by Parisian standards, measuring more than two and three quarter square miles (over seven square kilometers). This district has a population of more than one hundred and seventy thousand and is home to about ninety thousand jobs. Both population and employment figures are growing, largely due an influx of Asian immigrants.

Les Olympiades is a residential high-rise district built well over thirty years ago on a huge, elevated pedestrian esplanade complete with a shopping mall, the Pagode (Pagoda) at the center. To many people this complex looks like a smaller version of La Defense, Europe’s largest business district, situated just west of Paris. Read more »

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I Love Touring Paris - The Eleventh Arrondissement

The eleventh arrondissement is located in eastern Paris on the Right Bank of the Seine River. With one hundred fifty thousand residents in slightly more than 1.4 square miles (less than 3.7 square kilometers) it is the most densely populated district of Paris and in fact the most densely populated urban district in Europe. The area hosts over seventy thousand jobs.

This district has become bohemian and trendy, perhaps because other bohemian, trendy districts have priced themselves outside the stratosphere. The eleventh arrondissement provides a lot of nightlife. And there is a lot of day life as well, restaurants, cafes, boutiques, and galleries. Read more »

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I Love Touring Paris - The Fifth Arrondissement

The 5th arrondissement is on the Left Bank of the Seine River in central Paris. It is often known as the Quartier Latin (Latin Quarter) although it’s been a long time since many have spoken Latin there. Its population is slightly under sixty thousand and the district provides almost fifty thousand jobs. It is fairly small; less than a square mile (about two and a half square kilometers). This is one of the oldest districts in all Paris and offers some attractions dating back to the time of the Romans who never called it the Latin Quarter. The Roman town Lutetia was built in the First Century BC.

The Arenes de Lutece (Lutetia Arena) once held at least fifteen thousand spectators and considerably fewer gladiators. It was built in the First Century AD and included the longest Roman amphitheater. The 135 foot (over 40 meter) long stage hosted plays as well as gladiator fights. There were probably animal cages as well, surely not for the plays. The upper level held the poor, the slaves, and women while the lower level was reserved for the big shots. In case the spectators got bored they had a great view of the Seine River. Read more »

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I Love Touring Paris - The Third Arrondissement

The 3rd arrondissement located on the right bank of the Seine River is second smallest of Paris’s twenty districts. It contains the northern, relatively quiet part of the medieval district of Le Marais (The Marsh) while the 4th arrondissement contains the livelier southern part. Paris’s oldest surviving private house dating back to 1407 is located at 51 rue de Montmorency. One of its owners claimed to have made a Philosopher’s stone transforming lead into gold as well as having achieved immortality along with his wife (I hope that they get along well) but neither claim has been verified. What has been verified is that this district occupies less than one half a square mile (about 1.2 square kilometers) making it the second smallest arrondissement in the city. Its population is about 35 thousand and the district is home to about 30 thousand jobs.

The Marais was marshland first cleared in the Twelfth Century. In the Sixteenth Century the aristocracy built beautiful residences including the Place Royale, subsequently named la Place des Vosges built for Henri IV in 1605. The Marais took a hit when the court moved to Versailles. On the other hand this area was not highly affected by Baron Haussmann’s urban redevelopment. In 1969, France’s first Minister of Culture Andre Malraux made the Marais the first protected sector making it harder to redevelop buildings.

The Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) is a government supported school devoted to scientific and industrial education and research. Founded during the French Revolution, CNAM’s original mission was collecting scientific instruments and inventions. Its mission has changed but the conservatory includes a sizeable inventions museum Musee des Arts et Metiers (Arts and Trades Museum) open to the general public. CNAM’s many night-school offerings include a very respectable night-school engineering program.

The Hotel de Soubise is a city mansion located at 60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois built for a prince during the early Eighteenth Century on the site of a Fourteenth Century manor house. Napoleon turned this mansion into a state property that now includes the Musee de l’Histoire de France (Museum of French History) and part of the French National Archives.

The Temple, located in the third and forth arrondissements, is a fortress whose construction started in the mid-Thirteenth Century. During the French Revolution the Temple was transformed into a prison hosting the French royal family including King Louis XVI, the child Louis XVII, and Marie Antoinette. Because of royalist pilgrimages, the Temple was destroyed in several stages during the Nineteenth Century. Now only the name remains, in a subway station, a major city street, and the name of the district itself. Read more »

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Guide To Paris City Breaks
When you have decided to take a short break in Paris, there
are several things that you should do. The first thing that
you want to remember is that your city break should be full
of plans in order to fit in everything that you would like
to do, but also that you should try to do a little bit of
everything. Read more »

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The 4th arrondissement located on the Right Bank of the
Seine River is one of the smallest in Paris at slightly
over 0.6 square miles (1.6 square kilometers). Its
population is about thirty thousand but the district
provides more than forty thousand jobs. The Ile de la Cite
(Cite Island) was already inhabited in the First Century
B.C. by a Gallic tribe known as the Parisii who gave their
name to the city. Our first stop is world-renown, tasty,
not very high in calories, and won’t cost you a lot of
money. It’s on the magnificent Ile St-Louis one of the two
Parisian islands in the Seine. Read more »

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The second arrondissement is located on the right bank of the Seine. It is the smallest arrondissement in Paris’s, less than 0.4 square miles (slightly under a square kilometer). While its population falls short of twenty thousand, this district provides over sixty thousand jobs, the highest job density in the city. It is home to all of Paris’s remaining glazed commercial arcades; pedestrian passages open at both ends with a glass and iron roof. This Parisian invention, actually an adaptation of Oriental bazaars and souks, forms a miniature city free from the noise of horse-drawn carriages, speeding taxis, and inclement weather. Remember when these arcades were built mostly in the 1820s and 1830s sidewalks were a rare commodity. In these arcades window-shopping developed into yet another Parisian art form. They evolved (degenerated) into the suburban shopping center. Make sure to visit at least one arcade to get a taste of Paris in the good old days. Read more »

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