Cour Saint-Émilion: history and sights
Served by: metro line 14.
Did you know?
Serves Bercy Village, a former wine-storage warehouse district converted into a shopping area, where the old stone wine cellars have been preserved and repurposed.
Anecdote
For centuries, Bercy was Paris's largest wine market, before its conversion at the end of the 20th century.
Around Cour Saint-Émilion
- Musée des Arts Forains, 350 m away — A unique collection of carousels, automata and Belle Époque fairground attractions, housed in former Bercy wine warehouses, visited on an interactive guided tour.
- Musée de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, 350 m away — A museum tracing two centuries of immigration history in France, housed in the Palais de la Porte Dorée, a 1931 Art Deco gem.
- Bercy Village, 230 m away — Former 19th-century wine warehouses converted into a lively shopping district.
- Parc de Bercy, 350 m away — A garden laid out on former wine warehouses, blending lawns, vines and ponds along the Seine.
- Cinémathèque française, 350 m away — An institution devoted to preserving and screening film heritage, in a building designed by Frank Gehry.