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Many people from all over the world love Paris and often visit this amazing city. It is popular by lots of historical and tourist attractions. But only few of us really know some corners that hidden from tourists’ eyes and unusual places of this ancient town. We won’t tell you about Louvre, the main tour or French Disneyland. We will open a mystery world of unknown Paris.

1. Everybody knows that France is a country of wine and cheese, but almost nobody knows anything about the Waters’ St. (Rue des Eaux), which is a little wine world. The Passy abbey on this street is rather popular by it’s thermal springs, but favorite Louis XIII’s wine cellars were found here only few years ago by one of the restaurant hosts. He transformed them into a wine museum where tourists could find ancient bottles and wineglasses, wax figures of monks and their tools and taste rare kinds of wine and cheese, as well.

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Rue des Eaux & Musee du Vin

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La GéodeThe main object in this district is Parc de la Villette. It is a great spot both for relax and mainly for examination. Here you will find a big concentration of diverse museum. For example, you will find the whole Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie here. Also it is obligatory to buy a ticket to the Villet cinema which is a big spherical 3D cinema hall.

The second Parc des Buttes Chaumont will became for you a real world of fairytale with its magnificant lakes, bridges, small waterfalls, greenery and Neo-Classical temple in its background.

In this amazing district there are some also worth-visit places like the Cité de la Musique with the center of Paris music which is Le Conservatoire de Paris or picturesque Canal Saint-Denis and the Canal de l’Ourcq with its romantic boat trips.