The 20 Districts of Paris
Central Paris is officially divided into 20 districts called arrondissements, numbered from 1 to 20 in a clockwise spiral from the centre of town. The 12th and 16th arrondissements include large suburban parks, Le Bois de Vincennes, and Le Bois de Boulogne.
The very best cheap pocket map you can get for Paris is called "Paris Pratique par Arrondissement" which you can buy at any news stand. It makes navigating the city easy, so much so that one can imagine that the introduction of such map-books might be part of what made the arrondissement concept so popular in the first place.
- (1 er). The geographical centre of Paris. The Louvre Museum, the Jardin des Tuileries, Place Vendôme, Les Halles and Palais Royal are all to be found there.
- (2e). The central business district of the city - the Bourse (the Paris Stock Exchange) and the Bibliothèque Nationale are located there.
- (3e). Archives Nationales, Musée Carnavalet, Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers , the northern, quieter part of the Marais
- (4e). Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Hôtel de Ville (Paris town hall), Beaubourg, le Marais (Gay Paris)
- (5e). Jardin des Plantes, Quartier Latin, Universités , La Sorbonne, Le Panthéon
- (6e). Jardin du Luxembourg, Saint-Germain des Prés
- (7e ). Tour Eiffel, Les Invalides, Musée d'Orsay
- (8e). Champs-Elysées, the Palais de l'Elysée, la Madeleine
- (9e). Opéra Garnier, Grands Magasins
- (10e). Canal Saint-Martin, Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est
- (11e). Bastille, Nation, New Jewish Quarter
- (12e ). Opéra Bastille, Bercy Park and Village, Promenade plantée, Quartier d'Aligre, Gare de Lyon, Le Bois de Vincennes
- (13e). Quartier Chinois, Place d'Italie, La Butte aux Cailles , La Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- (14e). Montparnasse Cemetery, Denfert-Rochereau, Parc Montsouris
- (15e). Montparnasse Tower, Gare Montparnasse, Stadiums
- (16e). Palais de Chaillot, Musée de l'Homme, Le Bois de Boulogne, Le Trocadero with the best pictures to talk at La tour Eiffel
- (17e). Palais des Congrès , Place de Clichy
- (18e). Montmartre, Pigalle, Barbès.
- (19e). Museum of Science and Industry, Le Parc de la Villette, Le Bassin de la Villette, Le Parc des Buttes Chaumont
- (20e). Père Lachaise Cemetery
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