Underground & cool · Workshop tour · € · 13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles
Manufacture des Gobelins workshop tour
A guided tour into the working royal tapestry manufactory, where weavers still knot Gobelins tapestries by hand on upright looms much as they did under Louis XIV.
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The weaving-workshop tour runs only on certain days and books out — reserve through Cultival rather than turning up.
Getting there
- Les Gobelins790 m · 2 min walk
- Campo Formio5430 m · 8 min walk
- Place d'Italie - Italie 2567500 m · 9 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Hôtel HenrietteBudget-boutique hotel€€ · 2 minThirty-two individually styled mid-century rooms around a plant-filled courtyard, on a calm street near Rue Mouffetard. Photogenic without trying hard.
- SukhothaïThai€€ · 10 minA small carved-wood dining room on the Butte-aux-Cailles side of the 13th, turning out steady Thai cooking — green curry, fried fish, the occasional Chinese detour — at prices that belie its Michelin mention.
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.
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