Discover two villages perched high on delicious rustic air. During this tour of Belleville and Menilmontant your Art historian Guide will take you along the ancient road traveled by the funicular Belleville and we will mark a stop before the steps of the house that would have seen the birth of famous singer Edith Piaf where your guide will explain the strange circumstances of his birth.

At the turn of some amazing streets of this neighborhood popular & artistic, you will reach the Belleville Park, you will have a spectacular 360 degree views of Paris. This park has a breathtaking waterfall - the largest after that of the Buttes Chaumont - and a beautiful vineyard. The guided tour of Belleville and Ménilmontant will surprise you with its many small villas embedded in the green bucolic airs evoked by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In one of these villas gardens where we will have the privilege to enter, was shot a famous film by François Truffaut "Jules and Jim" starring Jeanne Moreau.

You will discover curious constructions called "water room" unique to Paris, Remember the ancient aqueduct of Belleville. Going down the street of Ménilmontant, you will also be enthralled to see yet in place in this area a majestic castle restored with its huge park that is an imitation of the renaissance architecture of the artist Palladio residence one time inhabited by the Goncourt brothers .

Nostalgic Train will rejoice to span the bridge that still overlooks the small belt railroad track with its small railway station immortalized by Charles Trenet. The guided tour of Belleville and Ménilmontant will end close to the home of Maurice Chevalier with one of the largest churches in Paris, within which are located curiously nestled a garage and a mosque.