Glacière: history and sights
Served by: metro line 6.
Did you know?
Named after former ice-storage pits, deep wells used to store natural ice before the invention of refrigerators, supplying Paris with ice year-round.
Anecdote
Before electricity, natural ice harvested in winter was stored in deep pits for use throughout the year.
Around Glacière
- Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de l'Hôpital Sainte-Anne, 350 m away — A collection tracing the history of psychiatry through the works and archives of the Sainte-Anne hospital.
- Butte-aux-Cailles, 450 m away — A former village of cobbled lanes and low houses, spared from Haussmann's grand renovations.
- Parc Montsouris, 500 m away — A large English-style park in the 14th arrondissement, laid out in the 19th century with a lake and rolling lawns.
- Piscine de la Butte-aux-Cailles, 650 m away — An Art Deco pool fed by a natural artesian spring discovered in 1863.