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District guide · Paris
The 19th arrondissement lies in northeast Paris and encompasses a district known for its cultural institutions and green spaces. The Philharmonie de Paris and Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie anchor the area, while Le Zénith and La Géode provide venues for performance and entertainment. The district rewards exploration through its parks, theatres, and the Rotonde de la Villette.
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The Philharmonie de Paris is a concert hall clad in a swirl of aluminium panels shaped like birds in flight, built to give the city's main orchestra a home purpose-built for symphonic sound.
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie sits inside Parc de la Villette in the north-east of Paris and opened in 1986 inside the shell of a large, unfinished cattle-market building from the 1960s that was repurposed for the museum rather…
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont sits on ground that had no reason to become a park: a bare, chemically poor hill called Chauve-Mont that once held the Gibbet of Montfaucon, where hanged criminals were displayed from the thirteenth century until 1760, and…
Parc de la Villette
Parc de la Villette occupies the site of the huge Paris abattoirs and wholesale meat market that Napoleon III had built here in 1867 and that were finally cleared away in 1974, leaving 55.5 hectares of northeastern Paris to redevelop.
Le Hall de la Chanson
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