Les Gobelins: history and sights
Served by: metro line 7.
Did you know?
Serves the Manufacture des Gobelins, a royal workshop founded in the 17th century that still weaves exceptional tapestries for the French state today. The name comes from a family of dyers established on the site as early as the 15th century.
Anecdote
The Gobelins manufacture still weaves tapestries today for national palaces and embassies.
Around Les Gobelins
- Manufacture des Gobelins, 110 m away — A royal workshop founded in the 17th century that still weaves exceptional tapestries for the French state today.
- Butte-aux-Cailles, 950 m away — A former village of cobbled lanes and low houses, spared from Haussmann's grand renovations.
- Place d'Italie, 500 m away — A vast crossroads in the 13th arrondissement, the gateway to Paris's Chinatown.