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Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont, Paris — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont is a district of north-east Paris, a quarried hillside re-cut into the cliffs and lake of the parc des Buttes-Chaumont.
About Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont
Where to stay in Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont
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Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont keeps its rooms on the canal and around the parks, never in hotel rows. The quays of the Bassin de la Villette hold the widest choice, with quai de la Seine and quai de la Loire putting the water at the door and a short metro run into central Paris. Slopes above the parc des Buttes-Chaumont are the family option, residential and steep, and stock there is genuinely thin.
The far end works differently. Blocks near the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie and the Cité de la musique suit two or three days of exhibitions and concerts, and they empty once the school parties have gone.
About Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont
What are the main landmarks in Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont?
Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont keeps its set pieces in two parks and along one canal. The parc des Buttes-Chaumont carries the Temple de la Sibylle on the île du Belvédère, a rotunda above the lake. Industry supplies the rest.
The parc de la Villette covers the old cattle market, where the cast-iron Grande halle de la Villette stands beside the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, La Géode and the Cité de la musique, with the place de la Fontaine-aux-Lions between them. Water marks the third: the Bassin de la Villette and the pont levant de la rue de Crimée. Sacré-Cœur and Montmartre lie two rises west, in another arrondissement.
What is the history of Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont?
Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont was built on gypsum and cattle. Its slopes were quarried for plaster until the pits were re-landscaped as the parc des Buttes-Chaumont in 1867, while the flat ground east of the canal held the slaughterhouses whose cast-iron market hall survives as the Grande halle de la Villette. The arrondissement itself dates from 1860, when Paris took in the villages beyond its tollgates and Ledoux's barrière Saint-Martin stopped collecting duty at the head of the Bassin de la Villette.
Meat left in the 1970s. The parc de la Villette took the ground, and the streets keep almost nothing of either trade.
Where is Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont?
Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont fills the north-east corner of Paris, edged by boulevard Macdonald, boulevard Sérurier and the rue de Belleville.
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Updated September 2026