Le Marais

This legendary hood needs no sales pitch: it’s picturesque, hip, central, fashionable, medieval, gay, Jewish…lots of intersectionality going on here.

The streets not to miss are Rue Vieille du Temple, Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Rue des Rosiers, Rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, Rue François Miron, Place des Vosges (located in a former royal château complex), and the Village Saint-Paul — a calm outdoor shopping/resto promenade zone. (Step out of the Village Saint-Paul and try to find the remnants of the 1000-ish year-old former boundary wall of Paris. )

Here’s the PARIS > D E F I N E D MAGAZINE Guide to the Marais neighborhood