Couronnes: history and sights
Served by: metro line 2.
Did you know?
Serves a working-class district of the 20th arrondissement, whose name is thought to recall former farmland shaped like an arc or crown around a vanished estate.
Anecdote
The 20th arrondissement still has many street names recalling its rural, wine-growing past before the 1860 annexation.
Around Couronnes
- Parc de Belleville, 700 m away — A sloped park offering one of the finest free panoramas over Paris, from the heights of the 20th arrondissement.
- Rue Denoyez, 750 m away — An alley entirely covered in murals and graffiti, a hotspot of Parisian street art.
- Marché Belleville, 500 m away — A popular, cosmopolitan market, one of the liveliest and most affordable in eastern Paris.