Underground & cool · Hammam · €€€ · 4e · Le Marais & Île Saint-Louis

Les Bains du Marais

A contemporary hammam off the rue des Blancs-Manteaux running a steam-and-sauna circuit on a fixed schedule of women-only, men-only and mixed sessions, with scrub and massage bookable on top.

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Getting there

• Rambuteau11250 m · 5 min walk
• Hôtel de Ville de Paris - 4ème Arrondissement111390 m · 7 min walk
• Saint-Paul (Le Marais)1610 m · 11 min walk

Walks that pass nearby

• Secret Gardensstop 3 of 6 · 180 m

  Jardin Anne Frank

  Hidden behind the 17th-century Hôtel de Saint-Aignan (which houses the Jewish History Museum). Three small terraced gardens: an entry courtyard, an orchard with a chestnut tree grafted from the tree Anne Frank wrote about from her Amsterdam annexe, and a small kitchen garden. Inaugurated 2007.

  Enter via the small archway at 14 Impasse Berthaud — there's no sign on the street; you're looking for an unmarked passageway. Free entry. The chestnut sapling is in the second courtyard, with a small plaque. Closes at dusk.

• Upper Maraisstop 4 of 6 · 260 m

  Hôtel de Soubise

  60 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, originally built 1375 as the Hôtel de Clisson, rebuilt 1705 in rococo style for the Prince de Soubise. Now houses the Archives nationales — and one of the city's most extravagant rococo interiors, the Salon de la Princesse, with painted panels by Boucher and Natoire.

  The courtyard is free to enter; the interior salons require a temporary-exhibition ticket. The medieval Tour de Clisson — sole surviving fragment of the 14th-century original mansion — is in the south-eastern corner of the courtyard.

• Marais & Bastillestop 6 of 6 · 280 m

  Centre Pompidou

  Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's 1977 'inside-out' museum: pipes and ducts on the outside, exhibition floors uncluttered by them. Closed for renovation 2025–2030.

  While it's closed, walk around the back to the Stravinsky Fountain (Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, 1983) — sixteen kinetic sculptures in a shallow pool. The square in front of the Pompidou usually has buskers; the cobbles slope so a coffee at the corner cafés gives you a slight downhill view of it all.

• Bouquinistes of the Seinestop 6 of 6 · 460 m

  Quai de l'Hôtel de Ville

  Between Pont d'Arcole and Pont Marie. The longest single stretch of bouquinistes on the right bank — about 30 stalls in an unbroken line. Eclectic, with several specialising in detective novels, vintage cookbooks, and postcards.

  End the walk at Pont Marie. Stop at the corner of Pont Louis-Philippe — the postcard stall there has a card index of nineteenth-century Paris postcards by arrondissement, and the seller will look up your street if you ask.

Within a few minutes' walk

• Lafayette AnticipationsContemporary art foundation€ · 1 minThe Galeries Lafayette foundation's commissioning space in a Marais building Rem Koolhaas hollowed out around a glass exhibition tower that physically moves on rails between floors. Free shows of newly produced work.
• Maison AlephPâtisserie€€ · 5 minMyriam Sabet's Levantine pastry shop in the Marais trades in nests of crisp kadaif angel-hair filled with creams — fig and cinnamon, pistachio and mastic. A compact counter to eat in, and benches around the Hôtel de Ville if it fills.
• Chez MarianneJewish-Levantine deli€€ · 5 minA long-running corner of the Pletzl that sells its mezze by the count: you choose four, six or more items from a case of hummus, falafel, aubergine caviar and herring. The sit-down room is calmer than the falafel-window scrum outside.
• Musée de la Chasse et de la NatureUnusual museum€€ · 6 minA Marais mansion where taxidermy, antique weaponry and contemporary art share period rooms — including a ceiling lined with owl feathers. One of the city's strangest, best small museums.
• L'As du FallafelLevantine / falafel€ · 6 minThe Rue des Rosiers benchmark since 1979: the 'special' pita, fried aubergine and red cabbage under tahini, eaten on the move.
• MiznonIsraeli street food€ · 7 minEyal Shani's pita operation, transplanted from Tel Aviv, runs loud and fast on a narrow Pletzl street. The whole roasted cauliflower, charred and dressed in nothing but salt and tahini, has outlived the hype that first surrounded it.

Where to stay near Les Bains du Marais

• Hôtel Le Bourg TibourgBoutique hotel€€€ · 5 minJacques Garcia's pocket-sized exercise in oriental-baroque excess on a narrow Marais lane — jewel tones, low light, heavy fabrics, thirty rooms. A small planted courtyard, breakfast from a vaulted cellar.
• Hôtel Caron de BeaumarchaisBoutique hotel€€ · 6 minAn 18th-century conceit named for the author of The Marriage of Figaro, with a period harpsichord and gaming tables in the lobby, set on the Marais's central artery.
• Experimental MaraisDesign hotel€€€ · 8 minThe Experimental Group's 2025 flagship on rue du Temple, where Tristan Auer answered the Marais's medieval bones with grand arches and stained glass. The restaurant Temple & Chapon sits under a cathedral-scale glass roof; a pool waits in the spa below.

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