Designed by Le Corbusier for the Salvation Army and inaugurated in 1933, this modernist building is dedicated to the reception, housing and social reintegration of the most destitute. It has been listed as a historic monument since 1975.

In spring and summer, a bucolic, leafy lane lined with little houses with colorful doors and shutters, typical of the old village of Plaisance.

Almost as an extension of Rue des Thermopyles, another bucolic little street with small houses flanked by small gardens. At number 19, an astonishing portal by Hungarian-born sculptor Alexandre Mezei.

Opened in 1922, this steep street is dotted with beautiful flower-filled houses, most of which were built between the wars in the Art Nouveau or Art Deco style. Don't miss the Maison Guggenbühl at 14 rue Nansouty.

Conceived in 1925 as part of the interwar pacifist movement, the Cité internationale brings together students and researchers from all over the world. A Mecca for architecture in Paris, with 45 houses, some of them by great architects (Le Corbusier, etc.).

Inaugurated in 1869, this charming park covers some 15 hectares, where some 1,400 trees, most of them over a hundred years old, have been planted. It is the highest point on the Left Bank of Paris (78 meters).

Beneath this rectangular mound lies a kind of grotto with 1,800 arches over a lake of pure water. This is one of the five largest water reservoirs in Paris. It was built between 1868 and 1873.

Designed by Marcel Zielinski, this modernist villa housed the studio of painter Nicolas de Staël, a key figure on the post-war French art scene. His studio was eight meters high.

Opened in 1926 under the name “cité Seurat”, this thoroughfare was conceived as an artists' housing estate, bringing together several studios or townhouses for different artists. At no. 4, the house of painter Jean Lurçat, and at no. 7 bis, the studio home of sculptor Chana Orloff.