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Canal St-Martin
canal St-Martin is a pleasant tree-line canal crossed by iron footbridges
and locks and some upscale bars, cafes, restaurants and boutiques
along its banks. By the side of one of these footbridges is the
Hotel du Nord made famous by Marcel Carneís classic film, 'Hotel
du Nord'. The Hotel is now a lively bar used for blues and comedy
evenings, sometimes in English.
Parc Buttes Chaumont
You can take a slow, leisurely barge ride from Musee d'Orsay along the
Ourcq and St. Martin Canals to the Bassin de la Villette. Buttes
Chaumont is a lovely park landscaped on former quarries. It is unusual
in that when it was built in 1867 by Baron Haussmann it was a city dump.
He used a then-new material, concrete, as landfill and created natural-looking
cliffs, ravines, rivers and an artificial lake. At the lakeside classical
temple one has one of the cityís moststriking views of Montmartre and
Sacre-Coeur, but some climbing is required. There is a lakeside cafe.
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