Bercy: history and sights
Served by: metro lines 6 and 14.
Did you know?
Once Paris's wine-warehouse district, now reborn as a park and modern neighbourhood around the AccorHotels Arena. For centuries Bercy was France's largest wine market, before its cellars gave way to themed gardens inspired by the vineyard it used to be.
Anecdote
For centuries the Bercy district was France's largest wine market.
Around Bercy
- Parc de Bercy, 450 m away — A garden laid out on former wine warehouses, blending lawns, vines and ponds along the Seine.
- Accor Arena, 270 m away — A huge grass-covered sloped arena, hosting major concerts and sporting events.
- Cinémathèque française, 280 m away — An institution devoted to preserving and screening film heritage, in a building designed by Frank Gehry.