Underground & cool · Rowboat hire · € · 12e · Bastille, Bercy & Aligre
Rowboats on Lac Daumesnil
Hire an open wooden rowboat on the lake in the Bois de Vincennes and pull yourself out to its two islands — the same boating ritual Parisians have kept up for more than a century.
Weekday mornings the embarcadère stays shut until 2pm; closed mid-November to mid-February.
Within a few minutes' walk
The district · 12e
Bastille, Bercy & Aligre — Eastern, everydayThe Marché d'Aligre, the Coulée verte's elevated walk, the wine-village of Bercy, and the Bois de Vincennes beyond. Residential and underrated, with the best daily market in central Paris.
Best for: Repeat visitors who want to live like a resident, market bag in hand.
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