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t a splendid puppet theatre
(guignol) for the kids, and
Marché aux Puces acres of beautiful lawns. Did You Know?
de St-Ouen
La Géode, a giant
⌂ Rue des Rosiers, St-Ouen entertainment sphere
93406 q Porte-de- 17 "\-= in Cité des Sciences,
Clignancourt, Garibaldi Cité des Sciences houses a 1-sq-km (1-sq-
# 9am–6pm Sat, 10am–6pm et de l’Industrie mile) hemispherical
Sun, 11am–5pm Mon cinema screen.
(reduced hours in summer) ⌂ 30 av Corentin Cariou
∑ marcheauxpuces- 75019 q Porte de la
saintouen.com Villette @ 75, 139, 150, 152, Explora exhibit, a fascinating
375 v T3b # 10am–6pm
The oldest and largest Paris Tue–Sat, 10am–7pm Sun guide to tech nology and
flea market spans around 6 ha ¢ 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec science. Elsewhere there is
(15 acres). In the 19th century, ∑ cite-sciences.fr a children’s science city with
rag mer chants and tramps interactive displays; children
would gather outside the This hugely popular science can play with machines that
fortifica tions that marked the and technology museum occu- show how scientific principles
city limits and offer their pies the largest of the former work. The building is sur-
wares for sale. Today the area Villette slaughterhouses, which rounded by a moat designed
is divided into 15 separate now form part of a massive by Fainsilber to allow natural
markets, and mainly sells urban park. Architect Adrien light to pene trate into the
antiques. It is well known for Fainsilber has created an lower levels of the building. A
its heavy Second Empire imaginative interplay of light, series of walk ways crisscross
furniture and ornaments. vegetation and water in the the moat, linking the various
high-tech, five-storey building. floors of the museum to the La
At the museum’s heart is the Géode cinema and the park.
16
Parc des Buttes-
Chaumont
⌂ 1 rue Botzaris 75019
§ 01 42 02 91 21 q Botzaris,
Buttes-Chaumont # Sep–
Jun: 7am–9pm daily; Jul–
Aug: 24 hrs daily
In the 1860s, urban planner
Baron Haussmann converted
this hilly site from a rubbish
dump and quarry with gallows
at the foot to English-style
gardens. His colleague was
landscape architect Adolphe
Alphand, who was responsible
for a vast 1860s programme
to provide new pavement-
lined Parisian avenues with
benches, street lights, kiosks
and urinals. Others involved in
the creation of this highly
praised park were the
engineer Darcel and the
landscape gardener Barillet-
Deschamps. They created a
lake, made an island with real
and artificial rocks, gave it
a Roman-style temple, and
added streams, a waterfall
and footbridges leading to the Inside the futuristic
island. Today, in the summer Cité des Sciences
months, visitors will also find et de l’Industrie

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