Underground & cool · Art-deco pool · € · 13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles
Piscine de la Butte aux Cailles
A 1924 red-brick Art-Deco municipal pool and listed monument — a vaulted indoor basin fed by an artesian well, plus heated open-air pools — in the village-like Butte-aux-Cailles.
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Bring a swim cap (required at French municipal pools). Closed Mondays.
Getting there
- Corvisart6300 m · 6 min walk
- Tolbiac7370 m · 7 min walk
- Place d'Italie - Italie 2567480 m · 9 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Les Tanneurs de la ButteFrench bistro€ · 3 minA bar-bistro on the cobbled spine of the Butte-aux-Cailles, dealing in the unembarrassed classics: tartare and fries, steak, saucisse with aligot. The room runs on regulars rather than passing trade.
- Chez Gladines (Butte-aux-Cailles)Basque / Southwest French€ · 4 minVast Basque salads piled with potato, gizzards and Cantal, and hearty Southwest plates for big appetites, in the village streets of Butte-aux-Cailles.
- SukhothaïThai€€ · 6 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.
Where to stay near Piscine de la Butte aux Cailles
- Résidence À la Butte aux CaillesAparthotel€ · 4 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.
- ibis Styles Paris Place d'ItalieDesign budget hotel€ · 7 minThe chain's design arm let a street-art brief loose here: frescoes of Paris landmarks on every floor, Corvisart and its viaduct-arch métro three minutes down the hill. Breakfast is built into the rate.
- Hôtel B55 Wine & SpaBoutique hotel & spa€€ · 15 minA four-star on a residential street between the Butte-aux-Cailles and Parc Montsouris, built around a wine-and-spa conceit: a tasting cellar below, treatment rooms attached, and a quiet quarter of low houses outside.
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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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