Underground & cool · Hammam · €€ · 5e · Latin Quarter

Hammam de la Mosquée de Paris

The 1920s bathhouse attached to the Grande Mosquée runs a marble steam circuit under a starred dome, finished with a sugared black-soap scrub and mint tea in the tiled courtyard.

Getting there

• Place Monge7280 m · 5 min walk
• Censier Daubenton7340 m · 6 min walk
• Jussieu710480 m · 9 min walk

Around the corner

Rue Mouffetard · 470 m away

The Rue Mouffetard is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Walks that pass nearby

• Markets of Parisstop 5 of 6 · 470 m

  Rue Mouffetard

  Roman-era road (it's been a thoroughfare for 2,000 years), market street since at least the 17th century. The lower stretch, descending from Place de la Contrescarpe, is the food market — the upper stretch is mostly bars.

  Start at Place de la Contrescarpe (top) and walk down — the slope is the experience. Sundays before noon are the busiest. The Saint-Médard church at the bottom marks the end of the food street; the Eglise Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (Hemingway's 'good wide street') is a five-minute walk west.

• Where the Writers Livedstop 2 of 6 · 550 m

  Hemingway, 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine

  Hemingway and his first wife Hadley rented a fourth-floor walk-up here from January 1922 to August 1923 — their first Paris apartment, no running water, no toilet. He wrote In Our Time on the kitchen table. There's a small plaque on the facade.

  Look for the green plaque next to the door. The apartment is private; just stand on the cobbles opposite and read A Moveable Feast's opening pages on your phone. Hemingway's local café was the now-gone Café des Amateurs at the bottom of the hill.

Within a few minutes' walk

• Jardin des PlantesBotanical garden€ · 5 minFrance's botanical garden, founded in 1626 as the royal medicinal beds and still run by the natural-history museum. The grounds are free: a long perspective of flowerbeds, an alpine garden, a rose garden, and a robinia planted in 1601, the oldest tree in Paris.
• Hotel MongeBoutique hotel€€€ · 8 minThirty rooms in an 1876 mansion between the Panthéon and the Jardin des Plantes, with Hungarian-point parquet, Carrara fireplaces and tropical wallpapers commissioned from Maison Deyrolle, the old Left Bank taxidermist. A small hammam and an honesty bar.
• Young & Happy Latin QuarterSocial hostel€ · 8 minParis's first independent hostel, in an eighteenth-century building partway down Rue Mouffetard, with a spiral staircase and a vaulted cellar bar at the foot of the market street. The Latin Quarter at its least studious.
• Arènes de LutèceRoman amphitheatre€ · 8 minA surviving 1st-century Roman amphitheatre sunk into the Latin Quarter, now an open public ground where locals play pétanque and kick footballs on the sand that once held gladiators.
• Au P'tit GrecGalette counter€ · 9 minA takeaway window on the Mouffetard slope folding griddle galettes to order since 1981 — the complète, heavy with ham, egg and Gruyère, is the one people queue for.
• Le Buisson ArdentTraditional bistro€€ · 10 minA 1950s room with painted murals near the Jussieu campus, doing seasonal French cooking with more imagination than the price suggests. The weekday formula keeps the university crowd's tables full.

Landmarks nearby

• Fontaine Cuvier · 250 m

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