Apartments in the famous neighbourhoods of Paris

Bastille isn’t one of the prettiest parts of Paris and the Place de la Bastille is often clogged with traffic. Yet Bastille certainly has its appeal: its one of the liveliest neighbourhoods in the city and has a great selection of designer boutiques, fairly ...

The area known as Madeleine stretches roughly from the impressive place de la Concorde, along the rue Royale, up to the large Église de la Madeleine, then on to place de l’Opéra and, beyond that, on toward the Grands Boulevards. This is Paris at its very grandest. ...

This lively section of Paris bordering the Marais starts at the revamped place de la République and finishes at the place de la Bastille. The neighbourhood has traditionally been staunchly working class and even today it seems to have resisted some of the ...

Located at the border of the 6th and the 14th and taking in the rather bleak Tour Montparnasse (itself located in the 15th), this neighbourhood was once popular with artists such as Picasso and Matisse looking to escape the escalating rents of Montmartre. Unlike ...

Part of the 17th arrondissement, Batignolles borders Montmartre and shares some of its famous neighbour’s village atmosphere without suffering from the same daily incursion of tourists. Its residents, many of them young families, will tell you that they have ...

Situated in the streets surrounding the large and very beautiful Parc Monceau, this is one of Paris’s most charming residential neighbourhoods and is understandably popular with the comfortably-off families who can afford to live here. Some of the grand apartment ...

Occupying the northwest corner of the 5th arrondissement, the Latin Quarter is home to Paris’s first and greatest university, the Sorbonne. Students have gathered here since the Middle Ages and they are, of course, here still. Like so much of Paris, the Latin Quarter ...

From the Sentier neighbourhood to the Forum des Halles, the cobbled, often pedestrianised streets of Montorgueil radiate from its eponymous central thoroughfare. The last bastion of the eateries that made the legendary reputation of the Paris foodhalls (Les Halles), ...

The Grands Boulevards district stretches west to east across several different arrondissements, from the elegant place de la Madeline, via the place de l’Opéra, to the recently renovated place de la République. The layout of the wide boulevards that give the area ...

Across from the Eiffel Tower, between Trocadero and Maison de la Radio, the upmarket neighbourhood of Passy is luckily not as sleepy as it first appears. Of course, the private mansions, landscaped gardens and little cobbled streets continue to attract those born into ...