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Ménilmontant, Paris — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ménilmontant climbs an 87 m hill in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, between the Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Parc de Belleville.
About Ménilmontant
Where to stay in Ménilmontant
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The hill sets the terms. Ménilmontant runs north from the Père Lachaise Cemetery to the Parc de Belleville, between Avenue Jean-Aicard on the west and Rue Pelleport on the east, and an 87 m rise sits inside those four edges. The Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant and the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin are the two names most stays are planned around.
Legs matter more than distance.
About Ménilmontant
What are the main landmarks in Ménilmontant?
Churches mark the slope. The Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant, the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville and the Église Notre-Dame-des-Coptes account for three, while the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin and Le Plateau carry the exhibition side. Villa Belleville and Castillo/Corrales add two more art addresses.
Sport and dance fill out the rest, from the gymnase des Pyrénées and the gymnase de la Bidassoa to the espace danse Gambetta Idfp Kim Kan and the centre Momboye.
What is the history of Ménilmontant?
No founding year is recorded here. What Ménilmontant keeps instead is a shape: an 87 m hill in the 20th arrondissement, hemmed in by the Père Lachaise Cemetery, the Parc de Belleville, Avenue Jean-Aicard and Rue Pelleport. The Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant carries the neighbourhood's name in its own.
The Pavillon Carré de Baudouin and the Maison de l'air stand among the buildings filed with it, neither of them dated in the record. Paris holds the rest.
Where is Ménilmontant?
Ménilmontant rises on an 87 m hill in the 20th arrondissement, the third-highest ground among the neighbourhoods of Paris.
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Updated September 2026