7 secret passages hidden in Paris Historic arcades

After several centuries of obscurity and neglect, Paris’s most beautiful glass-covered streets and shopping arcades have once more been restored to their original charm and beauty. Formerly the haunt of celebrated artists, they now attract lovers of fine architecture, gastronomes, antique collectors and shopaholics.

Galerie Vivienne

Monday to Sunday 8.30am to 8.30pm
4, rue des Petits Champs – 5, rue de la Banque – 6, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
Métro Bourse

Galerie Vivienne – Shops

Mosaic by the nineteenth century Italian artist, Faccina

Lobby – Galerie Vivienne

Entrance to the arcade

“Bistrot Vivienne”

Legrand Filles et Fils, one of the oldest delicatessens and wine merchants in France

Galerie Colbert

Monday to Sunday
6, rue des Petits-Champs et 4, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
Métro Bourse

Passage Verdeau

Monday to Friday 7.30am to 9pm, Saturday-Sunday 7.30am to 8.30pm
6, rue de la Grange-Batelière et 31 bis, rue du faubourg-Montmartre
75009 Paris
Métros Richelieu-Drouot et Grands boulevards

The arcade is popular with bargain hunters

Passage Verdeau – Dealer in vintage photographs

Rare and second-hand bookshop

Santon Bookshop – Passage Verdeau

The proximity of one of Paris’s largest auction houses, the Hôtel Drouot, has brought collectors back to the neighbourhood

Galerie Vérot-Dodat

Monday to Saturday 7am to 10pm
2, rue du Bouloi et 19, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau
75001 Paris
Métro Louvre-Rivoli

Passage Jouffroy

Monday to Sunday 7am to 21.30pm
19, rue de la Grange-Batelière et 10-12, Bd Montmartre
75009 Paris
Métro Richelieu-Drouot

A charming bookshop in the Passage Jouffroy

The famous Musée Grévin waxworks, opened in 1882

The Hotel Chopin in the Passage Jouffroy

The arcade looking toward the Faubourg Montmartre

Passage Choiseul

Monday to Saturday 7am to 9pm, Sunday 8am to 9pm
40, rue des Petits Champs – 23, rue Saint-Augustin – 61, rue Saint-Anne
75002 Paris
Métros Quatre Septembre et Bourse

Shops and restaurants – Passage Choiseul

Entrance to the Passage Choiseul

The Passage Choiseul or “Passage des Bérésinas” according to Louis Ferdinand Céline who lived here as a child

Passage des Panoramas

Monday to Sunday 6am to midnight
11, Bd Montmartre et 10, rue Saint-Marc
75002 Paris
Métro Grands Boulevards

The Passage des Panoramas is one of the oldest in the city

Lunch alfresco, Passage des Panoramas

AdDresses – Galeries AND glass-covered streets In Paris