Paris Marais
Property # 8145

Métro: Temple
450 sq/ft
4th floor apt (3 flights of stairs-no elevator)
Sleeps 4 guests

This well laid-out apartment is a charming mix of modern and ancient Paris. Completely renovated last year, it’s decorated in contemporary French design but located in a building built in the 17th Century. You enter the building via a half-timbered entryway paved with flagstones, take three flights of stairs and then enter into a modern, light-filled home.

Métro: Temple
450 sq/ft
4th floor apt (3 flights of stairs-no elevator)
Sleeps 4 guests

Inside the apartmentthe entrance hallway leads past the bathroom and kitchen to the updated living room with wood floors and large windows overlooking the pleasant garden. Comfortablecontemporary furniture includes a comfortable sofa-bedleather armchairCoffee Table raising to dining height (dinner for 6 possible)stereo with CD Playerand cable TV (including CNN and BBC World). Off the living roomthe newfully equipped kitchen has a window facing a small inner courtyardstone slab counterswood cabinetscombination microwave/conventional ovencook-toprefrigeratorand washing machine. Comfortable bedroom with double bed and garden view is accessed from the living room. Full bath is stylishly remodeled with tile walls and floormarble topped sink and tub with wall mounted showerand a toilet.

The rue du Temple is buzzing during the daybut the flat is at the back of the building overlooking quiet landscaped gardens: the rumble of the city is a world away. All the furnishings are newthe linens pure cotton and most of the artwork original.

Every visit to Paris brings new discoveries in the City of Light. This apartment has let us do everything from collapsing after a day out to actually cooking with some of those herbs we always saw in the market! Whether on your first visit to Paris or your tenthenjoy your own little chez vousand still be close enough to walk where you want to go!

Everyone has a different reason for loving Paris, and this apartment on the rue du Temple is the perfect place from which to do it all. Situated in the Marais, this apartment is just four blocks from the Picasso Museum and two from the Centre Pompidou, modern art is at your doorstep. If shopping is your love, the cutting edge shops in the rue des Francs-Bourgeois are just down at the next corner and Les Halles district is just across rue Beaubourg.

On rue Rambuteau, a two minute walk, all the food we go to Paris for can be found in a single block

a boulanger artisanal for your bread and pastries, traiteurs for those amazing sausages and patés.
one of the few remaining poissoniers still going for fresh fish and oysters, a great wine shop.
oh, and a chocolaterie for a quick boost after exploring the city!