Another Paris: the Batignolles « TheWaysBeyond

Réservation

Price

200€ from 1 to 10 pax
250€ from 11 to 15 pax

Booking

Please email us at contact@thewaysbeyond.fr to confirm our availability and finalize the booking!

Practical Information

Privatisation

– Booking preferably 2 weeks in advance

– Language: English, French

Included in the price

Historical discovery of the district

Not included in the price

Transportation to the placePersonal expenses

Duration of the tour

1h30/2h

Meeting Place

The exact address shall be sent after registration

Note

Please wear appropriate clothing and make sure you carry an umbrella. The activity will be maintained if it rains.Accessible to PRM

Cancelation Policy

Flexible cancelation and rescheduling conditions until 48h before the activity.

Caring Attitude

This guided walking tour complies with current health and safety instructions, with the guide wearing a face mask and respecting physical distancing practices and other government-recommended preventive measures.

Participants are asked to please wear a mask and respect physical distancing practices when walking together on the tour.

Photo Credits: All @ TheWaysBeyond, 2021
Except 3. H. Fantin-Latour, "Un atelier aux Batignolles", 1870, Paris, musée d'Orsay || 4. Vue aérienne du Parc Martin Luther-King © Ph. Guignard / Air Image

From Village To Green City

Quite aside from the Parisian hustle and bustle, the district of the Batignolles has remained through time a pure haven of peace, pleasant and necessary for whom is able to find it. A home for many artists (especially the Groupe des Batignolles, aka the future Impressionists), the “historical village” of the North of Paris differentiates itself from the rest of the city thanks to the general appearance of its buildings, but also to a small romantic park designed by Jean-Charles Alphand in the 19th cent. and above all to the brand-new Clichy-Batignolles project, a vast 54ha urban operation covering former SNCF railway wasteland.

Intimately linked to the creation of railways, the history of the Batignolles has long followed the quiet pace of a low-profile peaceful district where it is said that life is good and the air purer. The Batignolles in Paris is a former village that has been able to keep part of its soul to develop with time and play with history, which had separated the village from the city of Clichy in the 19th cent., reconnecting with Clichy through the ever surprising and colourful Clichy-Batignolles Martin-Luther-King park.

Frederic, your guide, lived in the Batignolles during the first months after his arrival in Paris. He invites you for a unique guided tour to discover another Paris, in this quiet piece of urban countryside, which has just found a new “flagship” with Renzo Piano’s new Palace of Justice. From the Place de Clichy you will wander around the historical streets of the district to then linger over two historical conceptions of urban parks, between mallard and skate-parks!

Highlights of your guided tour:

– Discover the heart of a former village aside from Paris!
– Follow the steps of the first Impressionists!
– Go back to the beginnings of the railway Paris!
– Enjoy two very different conceptions of urban parks!

Price

200€ from 1 to 10 pax
250€ from 11 to 15 pax

TheWaysBeyond is a signatory to the Caring Attitude charter of the Paris Tourist Office.In this sense, the guided walking tour “Another Paris: the Batignolles” complies with current health and safety instructions, with the guide wearing a face mask and respecting physical distancing practices and other government-recommended preventive measures.Participants are asked to please wear a mask and respect physical distancing practices when walking together on the tour.