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
Where to stay near Manufacture des Gobelins workshop tour
- 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.
- Résidence À la Butte aux CaillesAparthotel€ · 14 minFourteen rebuilt studios with kitchenettes on rue des Cinq Diamants, up in the Butte-aux-Cailles where the houses stop at two storeys and the lamps still follow the old gas plan. A restaurant sits directly downstairs.
- Young & Happy Latin QuarterSocial hostel€ · 16 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.
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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.
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