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Paris 12 Reuilly, Paris — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Woodland fills the eastern half of Paris 12 Reuilly, an arrondissement of Paris that runs from the platforms of Gare de Lyon out to the Bois de Vincennes.
About Paris 12 Reuilly
Where to stay in Paris 12 Reuilly
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Where to stay in Paris 12 Reuilly splits between the station quarter and the green end by the wood. Rooms near Gare de Lyon put the platforms for Switzerland, Italy, and the south of France minutes from the door, with the Opéra Bastille and the Marché d'Aligre inside an easy walk. Book there for the trains.
Beds in Bercy face the Parc de Bercy and the Accor Arena and go quiet after dark, while the eastern edge by the Bois de Vincennes suits you if a morning walk to the Lac Daumesnil counts for more than a metro connection.
About Paris 12 Reuilly
What are the main landmarks in Paris 12 Reuilly?
The main landmarks in Paris 12 Reuilly line avenue Daumesnil and run east into the Bois de Vincennes. Craft workshops occupy the arches of the Viaduc des Arts, and the Coulée verte René-Dumont runs the old railway deck above them. Market stalls fill place d'Aligre.
Deeper in the wood stand the Paris Zoological Park, the Vélodrome de Vincennes, and the Parc floral de Paris, with the Palais de la Porte Dorée and its Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration. The Accor Arena and the Cinémathèque Française keep to the river side, while the Château de Vincennes stands outside the boundary, in the commune of Vincennes.
What is the history of Paris 12 Reuilly?
Paris 12 Reuilly carries the official name arrondissement de Reuilly, after the old quarter around the rue de Reuilly on the eastern side of Paris. The boundary law of 1859 folded the faubourgs outside the old wall into twenty arrondissements, and the map took effect in 1860. The riverside ran on wine.
Barrels came upstream to the entrepôts of Bercy, cleared in the twentieth century for the Parc de Bercy and Bercy Village. Napoleon III had the Bois de Vincennes made a public park on old royal hunting ground, and behind a wall on the rue de Picpus the Picpus Cemetery still holds the dead of the Terror of 1794.
Where is Paris 12 Reuilly?
Paris 12 Reuilly takes the right bank of the Seine in eastern Paris, running from the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine east to the Bois de Vincennes.
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Updated September 2026