JEWISH MARAIS WALKING TOUR

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JEWISH MARAIS WALKING TOUR : START AT THE ILE DE LA CITE (METRO: CITE)

The city’s most famous Jewish neighborhood is in the Marais and is known as the Pletzl – Yiddish for little Place. This 4th arrondissment district (Metro: St. Paul) has been home to Jews on and off since the thirteenth century. Today, though gentrification has made this one of the city’s most fashionable quarters, it is still heavily Jewish and has been for nearly one hundred years.

Up and down rue des Rosiers between rue Malher and rue des Hospitalières-St.-Gervais, as well as on the streets off rue des Rosiers, you will find Jewish restaurants, bookshops, boulangeries and charcuteries along with synagogues and shtiebels (small prayer rooms – Oratoire in French).
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Turn left on to rue Pavée. At number 10 is Agudath Hakehilot, an orthodox synagogue. Designed byHector Guimard, the Art Nouveau architect and decorator famous for the Paris metro stations, and built in 1914, this is the largest synagogue in the Pletzl. Guimard's wife, an American, was Jewish and with the rise of Nazism they left France for the United States. On Yom Kippur 1940 it was dynamited by the Germans, but has since been restored and is now a national monument in addition to playing a key role in the community.

Continue along rue Pavée and turn left onto rue des Rosiers. Along this narrow, ancient street you will find kosher and Jewish style restaurants cheek by jowl with Jewish bookshops, small synagogues, prayer rooms, and kosher boulangeries and charcuteries. You will also see trendy shops, a sign of the increasingly gentrified nature of the neighborhood.

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Promenade Plantée (Coulée verte René-Dumont)

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This unique plant-flanked promenade spans the 4.5 km from Place de la Bastille to Bois de Vincennes, on a viaduct and over footbridges.

Essentials

Opened in 1993
65,000 sq m

Don’t miss

The Viaduc des Arts.

  

Getting there

- From Avenue Daumesnil to the Bois de Vincennes, up and down stairs and lifts (Paris 12)
- Metro: Bastille

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  Things to doSurely the most original way to explore eastern Paris between Bastille and the Bois de Vincennes – overhead and underground, on viaduct footbridges and in tunnel trenches.
Philippe Mathieux and Jacques Vergely designed this trail in 1988, on the tracks that took trains from Bastille to Varenne-Saint-Maur from 1859 to 1969 when the line was abandoned and replaced with a sprinkling of gardens.
The City of Paris embarked on a vast refurbishing project, revamping this viaduct’s 71 arcades under the Promenade Plantée, in 1989.

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/france/travel-tips-and-articles/76886

17. La Promenade Plantée

A railroad track with a floral makeover, this elevated walkway offers superb views and allows you to sidle through lush green archways high above the city crowds. This charming 4.5km pathway runs through most of the 12th arrondissement and you can join it from Avenue Daumesnil near the Bastille métro stop.

Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/france/travel-tips-and-articles/76886#ixzz3EYfsqGpw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promenade_plant%C3%A9e
The western portion of the parkway may be accessed via stairways and elevators leading up to the elevated viaduct. This portion is reserved for pedestrians. The eastern portion of the parkway is accessible via ramps and stairways and is open to both pedestrians and cyclists. The west end can be reached from Bastille by walking 300 m south on Rue de Lyon, then left on Avenue Daumesnil. The staircase entrance is immediately on the left where Avenue Daumesnil enters rue de Lyon.

The Promenade plantée is an extensive green belt that follows the old Vincennes railway line. Beginning just east of the Opéra Bastille with the elevated Viaduc des Arts, it follows a 4.7 km (2.9 mi) path eastward that ends at a spiral staircase leading to the boulevard Périphérique beltway.

At its west end near the Bastille, the parkway rises 10 m above the surrounding area and forms the Viaduc des Arts, a line of shops featuring highly skilled arts and crafts. The shops are located in the arches of the former elevated railway viaduct, with the parkway being supported atop the viaduct. This portion of the parkway runs parallel to the avenue Daumesnil. The parkway intersects the Jardin de Reuilly near the rue Montgallet and descends to street level. At that point, it becomes a grassy mall and then follows the old railway direction below street level towards the east, passing through several tunnels. As it reaches the rue du Sahel, it splits, with one portion continuing to the beltway, and the other terminating in the square Charles-Péguy along the former path of a branch line that once linked to the Petite Ceinture railway. The elevated part route on the viaduct has some enclosed sections, as when it passes between modern buildings, and some open sections with expansive views.

In addition to the Jardin de Reuilly and the square Charles-Péguy, the Promenade Plantée also includes the Jardin de la gare de Reuilly, with its preserved but unused railway station, and the square Hector-Malot.

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/mar/25/top-10-free-things-to-do-paris

Walk La Promenade Plantée

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Opened in 1993, six years before New York's similar High Line project, La Promenade Plantee is a tree-lined walkway on an old elevated railway line in east Paris. The 4.5km trail is a wonderful way to explore the city, taking you up and down staircases, across viaducts, above the streets and offering the occasional chance to wave back at the lucky Parisians whose apartments overlook it. The walkway also runs over the Viaduc des Arts, a bridge in which the arches are now occupied by galleries.
• 12th arrondissemen, promenade-plantee.org

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If it's your first visit here and you don't know where to start we suggest that as a minumum you try and:
- visit the Ile de la Cité with the Cathedral of Notre-Dame and La Sainte-Chapelle
- go up the Eiffel Tower (you really don't want to go home and say you didn't see it!)
- stroll along the Champs Elysées (2,5 km) between the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde
- explore Montmartre and the Basilica of the Sacré-Coeur
- see one or more of the museums including the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de Cluny
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Walking Tour of the Marais Neighborhood - http://goparis.about.com/od/sightsattractions/ss/MaraisTour.htm

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Champ de Mars - large public green park between the Eiffel Tower and the École Militaire
Tuileries Gardens - between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde.
Luxembourg Gardens - In its center, stands the glorious Palais du Luxembourg,
Bordered by Bd. St-Michel and Rues de Vaugirard, de Medicis, Guynemer, and Auguste-Comte, St-Germain-des-Prés, Paris