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Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Alphand built this in 1867 out of a worked-out gypsum quarry: a fifty-metre cliff, a suspension footbridge over a lake, grottoes hung with cast-concrete stalactites, and the Temple de la Sibylle on the island above the water.
The island and temple are fenced for multi-year soil works — photograph them from the shore. The western slopes near Rue Botzaris give the line to Montmartre.
Getting there
- Buttes Chaumont7b230 m · 4 min walk
- Pyrenées11430 m · 8 min walk
- Belleville211580 m · 11 min walk
Around the corner
Parc des Buttes Chaumont · 500 m away
The Parc des Buttes Chaumont is a public park situated in northeastern Paris, France, in the 19th arrondissement. Occupying 24.7 hectares, it is the fifth-largest park in Paris, after the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne, Parc de la Villette and Tuileries Garden.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Sundays Onlystop 5 of 6 · 500 m
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
25 hectares in the 19th, opened 1867 — Haussmann's most ambitious park. Built on the site of an abandoned gypsum quarry, with cliffs, a lake, an iron suspension bridge, and a Roman-temple folly on a 50 m island. Sunday-morning Parisian families everywhere.
Enter at Buttes-Chaumont métro (line 7B). Walk clockwise around the lake to the suspension bridge first, then up to the temple folly for the best view of Sacré-Cœur. Rosa Bonheur — a small open-air bar at the southern end of the park — is the post-walk drink.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le CadoretNeo-bistro & all-day caf退 · 3 minA Belleville corner café by day, a serious kitchen by night — revived in 2024–25 under chef Alice Neman, with a great-value chalkboard lunch.
- CombatCocktail bar€€ · 7 minA bright, women-led Belleville cocktail bar — inventive but unfussy drinks, windows that fold open over the sloping pavement in summer. A local's room, not a set-piece.
- Butte BergeyreViewpoint€ · 7 minFive streets on a hundred-metre hump, laid out in the 1920s over a defunct stadium and reached by one road and a staircase. From the railing on Rue Georges-Lardennois the rooftops fall to Sacré-Cœur, with a small municipal vineyard directly below.
- Lao SiamThai / Lao€€ · 7 minA Belleville institution since 1985, founded by a Thai-Lao family and still cooking from the long menu that made its name: green papaya with pickled crab, crisp rice squares in coconut-shrimp-pork sauce, whole fish steamed in banana leaf. The décor is plain; the kitchen is not.
- Le BaratinBistro & natural wine€€ · 7 minRaquel Carena's daily blackboard — offal, fish, sweet-sour edges — helped invent Paris bistronomy and still pulls chefs on their nights off. The natural-wine list runs deep.
- Le PacifiqueCantonese / dim sum€ · 8 minA Cantonese hold-out on rue de Belleville, open since 1983 and built for long tables, steamer baskets and rotisserie meats. The dim sum is the cheap pleasure — order several baskets and the bill stays low — and the kitchen runs past midnight.
The district · 19e
La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont — Parks and canalsThe wild cliffs of Buttes-Chaumont, the science-museum-and-music campus of La Villette, the Bassin de la Villette's open-air bars, and a multicultural, working everyday Paris around them.
Best for: Park people, families and budget stays who want space and canal swims.
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