Underground & cool · Open-air mural circuit · € · 13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles
Boulevard Vincent Auriol street-art walk
Under the elevated viaduct of métro line 6, the Itinerrance gallery has commissioned some two dozen tower-block-scale murals — Shepard Fairey's tricolour Marianne, D*Face's 25-metre 'Turncoat', Inti's secular Madonna — turning a stretch of the 13th into a wall museum.
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Ride line 6 between Chevaleret and Nationale for the aerial view, then walk it at street level.
Getting there
- Nationale6200 m · 4 min walk
- Chevaleret6230 m · 4 min walk
- Campo Formio5500 m · 9 min walk
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The district · 13e
Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles — Asia and street artParis's Chinatown of tower blocks and excellent Southeast-Asian kitchens, the village-like Butte-aux-Cailles with its Art-Deco pool, and a riverfront of street-art murals and barge clubs.
Best for: Eaters chasing pho and bo bun, and anyone bored of the centre.
Everything we've verified in the 13e →How we verified this
Confirmed currently operating as of October 2026 (researched by hand on 2026-09-27: Public boulevard, cannot close: 20+ murals still in situ (D*Face 'Turncoat' at 155, Shepard Fairey 'Liberte Egalite Fraternite'); Paris Secret reports a new work added; open-air museum on metro line 6),cross-checked against 1 source:
The full verification ledger — everything checked this week, and what we marked closed →More underground & cool, nearest first
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