Porte Dorée: history and sights
Served by: metro line 8.
Did you know?
Serves the Palais de la Porte Dorée, built for the 1931 Colonial Exhibition, now home to the national museum of immigration history as well as a tropical aquarium in its basement.
Anecdote
The palace's tropical aquarium is home to caimans, kept in its pools since the 1990s.
Around Porte Dorée
- Palais de la Porte Dorée, 290 m away — An Art Deco palace built for the 1931 Colonial Exhibition, now home to an aquarium and a museum of immigration.
- Bois de Vincennes, 500 m away — Paris's largest green space, with a lake, zoo and racecourse, a former royal hunting ground.
- Parc zoologique de Paris, 900 m away — A modern zoo in the Bois de Vincennes, known for its iconic large artificial rock.