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Viaduc des Arts
Just south of the Bastille Opera was a former railway viaduct that
has now been converted into craftsmen’s stores and design boutiques.
Above the Viaduct is the Promenade Plante, which is an elevated
Park stretching from the Bastille to the Bois de Vincennes.
Belleville
An outlying residential area that includes Belleville and the
Pere-Lachaise cemetery. The Père-Lachaise Cemetery is the 20th's
greatest landmark, it is the largest and most elite Cemetery in Paris,
and perhaps the most famous in the world. It is the last resting-place of
Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Isadora Duncan,
Sarah Bernhardt, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Colette,
and many others. This 108 acre museum of french history is used
as much as a park as a cemetery and Parisians come here to picnic.
Belleville, which was the home of Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier,
has been for a long time the neighborhood where new immigrants
would settle.
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