Where to stay · Social hostel · € · 9e · South Pigalle & Opéra

Woodstock Hostel

An independent hold-out below Pigalle on Rue Rodier, with a bar that runs to 2am and a 1960s conceit it commits to fully. Free breakfast, free walking tours, and the foothill of Montmartre a few streets uphill.

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Getting there

• Anvers2370 m · 7 min walk
• Cadet7420 m · 8 min walk
• Saint-Georges12450 m · 9 min walk

Walks that pass nearby

• Painters' Viewsstop 5 of 7 · 370 m

  Van Gogh at Père Tanguy

  14 Rue Clauzel. Julien Tanguy ran a colour-supplies shop here in the 1880s and gave struggling painters credit on materials in exchange for paintings. Van Gogh painted three portraits of Tanguy, two of them in front of a wall covered in Japanese prints. The shop is gone but the building survives.

  There's a small plaque on the building. The street is quiet and residential — visit, look up at the second-floor windows, then walk on. Don't expect a museum; this is a five-minute pilgrimage stop.

• Cinemas That Survivedstop 2 of 6 · 530 m

  Le Louxor

  170 Boulevard de Magenta, opened 1921 — neo-Egyptian architecture inspired by Tutankhamun's then-recent discovery (the tomb was opened 1922, but Egyptomania was already in full swing). Closed 1983, abandoned for 30 years, restored and reopened 2013 with three screens. The exterior tiles are mostly original; the auditorium has the painted Egyptian frieze.

  The lobby is worth seeing even without a ticket — walk in, look at the Egyptian-revival frieze and the colour-block mosaic floor. The third-floor terrace bar (open before screenings) has an unexpected view of Sacré-Cœur.

• Montmartre Heightsstop 2 of 6 · 630 m

  Place des Abbesses

  One of only two surviving Hector Guimard métro entrances with the original glass canopy. The cast-iron Art Nouveau lettering is the most photographed métro sign in the city.

  The Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre church on the same square (1904) is the first reinforced-concrete church in the world — easy to miss because the brick facade looks conventional. Coffee at Le Sancerre on the corner is a Montmartre standby.

• Belle Époque Parisstop 6 of 6 · 650 m

  Métro Abbesses entrance

  Hector Guimard's 1900 cast-iron entrance. One of only two édicules with the original glass canopy still in place — the rest of his entrances had their roofs removed for being "too modern." The deepest station in the métro at 36 m.

  Tap your ticket and ride the spiral staircase down rather than the lift — the walls are painted with murals on the way. Coming back up, take the lift; that's 174 steps the hard way. The other surviving original Guimard édicule is at Porte Dauphine.

Within a few minutes' walk

• Villa SoPi Appart'HotelAparthotel€€ · 2 minFourteen apartments in a renovated Haussmann building off rue des Martyrs, each with a kitchenette and dishwasher and a 24-hour desk — a serviced flat that still takes nightly bookings.
• Le PantrucheNeo-bistro€€ · 5 minFranck Baranger's small SoPi room that helped write the modern bistronomy playbook in 2011 and still earns a Michelin Bib. The Grand Marnier soufflé is the dessert everyone tells you to keep room for.
• Hôtel RochechouartRooftop-view boutique hotel€€ · 6 minA restored Art-Deco building in Pigalle with an open-air rooftop framing Sacré-Cœur and the Eiffel Tower — real style and a real view at mid prices.
• Vintage Paris Gare du NordDesign hostel€ · 7 minA pop-music-themed hostel on Rue de Dunkerque, air-conditioned and within walking distance of both Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est — hostel rates with hotel manners, largely delivered.
• Hôtel BienvenueDesign hotel€€ · 8 minA design hotel in South Pigalle in the old Hôtel Fénelon, built around a planted interior courtyard with a bright ground-floor restaurant. Chloé Nègre interiors — vintage floral fabrics, pastels, a 'Parisian home' feel.
• Madame ArthurDrag cabaret€€ · 8 minA drag cabaret operating under this name since 1946, now a weekly French-chanson revue in a small Pigalle room: four performers in opulent costume reworking the standards, the theme rewritten each week.

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