Undiscovered Paris

A multitude of distinctively different worlds, all within a few hundred metres of one another. There is a small village of tiny streets at the top of a landscaped hill - the Butte-aux-Cailles; an area of buildings with signs covered in ideograms behind the Place d’Italie; an old station that saw the first TGVs (high-speed trains); a garden walk along an elevated railway line transformed into the Viaduc des Arts; the former wine storehouses in Bercy; the National Library in the shape of open books beside the river and even a Tibetan temple in the Bois de Vincennes! This eastern part of Paris covers a huge area where everything is designed to make you feel at home. Wooded parks have been created amongst huge buildings; there are cinema complexes, new shopping centres, markets – a new district is emerging rue Louise Weiss…