Posts Tagged "Père-Lachaise"

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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20th district: Ménilmontant

9 June 2009 | Categories: Paris Districts

edith piaf grave20th district is unofficially known as Belleville due to the street of the same name. There are three main things that you should pay attention for while being here.

The first one, the Père-Lachaise Cemetery that is the world most-visited cemetery and last place for many genius people of humanity like Chopin, Balzac, Rossini, Piaf, Sarah Bernhardt, Wilde, Callas, Proust, Fourier, Pissarro, Jim Morrison and many others.
The second one is the resting place of great Edith Piaf. Admirers of her work can take a walk across the streets of Piaf’s youth and old ages.

As because this district is a location of inflow of immigrants, the third thing to visit is the second Paris Chinatown on Rue Rebeval. Honestly, Asian restaurants, markets and bars are sometimes turning Paris into a picturesque town in the heart of East.