During Wednesday's free outing with Charly, we set off to explore Parc de la Villette, the capital's largest green space, with the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, the Géode (a spherical cinema) and the Philharmonie.
Parc de la Villette was built on the former site of the Villette slaughterhouses, constructed in 1867 at the instigation of Prefect Hausmann and Napoleon III. The Grande Halle is one of the few remaining vestiges of this era. The new layout, designed by architect Bernard Tschumi, was inaugurated in the mid-1980s. The Philharmonie de Paris is the park's most recent building: since 2015, it has housed a large concert hall, an exhibition space dedicated to music, rehearsal studios and educational workshops.
We continued our exploration of the 19th arrondissement with the Mouzaïa neighbourhood, a charming little village with brick houses and small gardens dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a little piece of the countryside in the heart of Paris.