The spirit of the area that once housed Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, and Raoul Dufy hasn’t completely died. Prim old ladies, jocular bistro owners, a stray drag queen or two—everyone knows everyone in Abbesses, and unlike in Paris’s chillier, more bourgeois neighborhoods, here they say “hello.”
Read the articleDestinations: Paris · 18th Arrondissement (Pigalle) · 9th Arrondissement
Themes: Food + Drink · Shopping · City Break
Inspired by: Hidden European Neighborhoods