A walk through Chinatown's past - The history of Chinatown Activity

Guided tour in the past of the Chinese Quarter in Paris!

What was this district of the 13th arrondissement like before the towers and the "Chinois" that made it famous?

If you're interested in the history of the neighbourhood and old architecture, this unique video conference is for you!

Chinatown was not built on a large piece of wasteland, but in a neighbourhood where houses, buildings and shops already existed.

Would you have guessed that there are still traces of this past, despite the construction of the famous towers in the 1970s, which were largely filled with South-East Asian refugees fleeing their now communist countries?

In the past, this neighbourhood was rather popular, inhabited for a large part by workers. But not only that! Fortunately, not everything was razed to the ground to build the towers. Fortunately, there are still vestiges: Haussmann-style buildings, art deco, etc...

You can discover:

- the history of this district in the middle of the countryside from the 17th century until the construction of the towers in the 1970s,

- the differences between a Haussmann-style building and an art deco one, with many examples during the walk,

- the little story that joins the big one.

A virtual version of the tour is also possible, by videotape!