Underground & cool · Olympic pool · € · 20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant
Piscine Georges Vallerey
A 50-metre Olympic pool, originally built for the 1924 Games and refitted for the 2024 ones, with a roof that slides open over the water when the weather turns warm.
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On a hot day, check whether the roof is open before setting out — it only retracts once the water passes 25°C.
Getting there
- Porte des Lilas3bis11200 m · 4 min walk
- Saint-Fargeau3bis380 m · 7 min walk
- Télégraphe11540 m · 10 min walk
Where to stay near Piscine Georges Vallerey
- Hôtel BridgetBoutique hotel€€ · 20 minBehind a traditional façade on rue des Pyrénées, 32 rooms furnished from the flea markets — candy-coloured benches, salvaged pieces — in upper Ménilmontant near Père-Lachaise. Two métro lines within a few minutes.
- Nadaud HotelBudget hotel€ · 26 minA 27-room family hotel on a quiet street fifty metres from the Gambetta gate of Père-Lachaise, run with an environmental bent and the rare offer of breakfast brought to the room over a generous morning window. Plain, clean, inexpensive.
- The Loft Boutique HostelBoutique hostel€ · 33 minA 29-room hostel up the hill on Rue Julien Lacroix, in the thick of Belleville's bars and Chinese-Tunisian restaurants. Air-conditioned rooms, a shared kitchen, and a furnished terrace with a bar for the climb home.
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The district · 20e
Belleville & Ménilmontant — The hill that talks backPère-Lachaise, the multicultural climb of Belleville with its Chinese and North-African kitchens and street art, and Ménilmontant's bars and music rooms. The city's most mixed, least polished, most alive eastern edge.
Best for: Travellers who want the real, diverse, cheap-eats Paris and a view from Parc de Belleville.
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