Théâtre du Châtelet
A stage beside the Seine with music and performance at its heart, well placed for an evening that starts on foot.
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A stage beside the Seine with music and performance at its heart, well placed for an evening that starts on foot.
A concert stop on boulevard de Rochechouart, with the neighbourhood’s café life outside and a theatre setting within.
Live music on the southern edge of Montmartre, where the line-up gives the evening its direction.
A historic boulevard Voltaire venue for a night chosen around the musicians and the performance, with tickets tied to each show.
The circular venue at La Villette gives concerts and club programmes a distinctive setting beside the canal.
A live-music destination in Parc de la Villette, suited to an afternoon in the park that becomes an evening at a gig.
A listening destination on rue des Petites-Écuries, with jazz and other live sounds shaping the calendar.
An intimate jazz destination on rue des Lombards, where choosing the performance matters more than planning a bar crawl.
Music and contemporary culture beside the Canal Saint-Martin, an easy place to connect a waterside walk with an evening out.
A guinguette stop inside the Buttes-Chaumont, where a park afternoon can turn into a social evening.
A Pigalle destination with several spaces for live music and club nights, best approached through the programme for your date.
The music-hall facade is only the beginning: look at the current stage programme for a night in the Grands Boulevards district.
Cinema on a grand scale, with an atmospheric auditorium and a programme that also makes room for live events.
Water, planted paths and wide lawns give the Batignolles a contemporary park for a pause between neighbourhood stops.
Follow a planted route above and through the eastern city, where former railway infrastructure becomes a walking landscape.
Big lawns, water and geometric gardens bring a different kind of open space to the western edge of Paris.
Linked gardens offer a green pause near the Seine, with traces of the district’s wine-trading past.
A compact English-style garden with winding paths and water, easily paired with a walk through the Batignolles streets.
A former railway station with enough painting, sculpture and river light to take over an afternoon on the Left Bank.
Take a café table on Boulevard Saint-Germain and watch the Left Bank move around you.
A Saint-Germain café stop pairs naturally with the church, bookshops and gallery streets nearby.
Open-air house and techno beneath the périphérique, where the edge of Paris becomes the centre of the night.
Live jazz upstairs, electronic music below: a former railway station with two very different ways to lose track of time.
A riverside bar offers a pause along the Seine, with the quays as the rest of the route.