Quai de la Gare: history and sights
Served by: metro line 6.
Did you know?
Serves the former Bercy warehouses, once Europe's largest wholesale wine market, now transformed into a modern residential and shopping district.
Anecdote
The Bercy wine cellars once stored huge quantities of wine brought to Paris by river and rail.
Around Quai de la Gare
- Bercy Village, 1200 m away — Former 19th-century wine warehouses converted into a lively shopping district.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, 450 m away — Four glass towers shaped like open books, housing one of the largest document collections in the world.
- Piscine Joséphine Baker, 450 m away — A floating swimming pool moored on the Seine, with an open-air basin and river views.