Belleville Street Art Walk

The corner of rue Oberkampf and rue Saint-Maur features a large, permanent billboard frame bolted directly onto the brick wall of a corner building. This structure serves as a rotating canvas for street artists. Every two weeks, an invited…

Rue Denoyez stands apart in Paris because its walls change weekly. This narrow, dead-end alleyway in Belleville is a legal canvas for street artists, where layers of spray paint pile up until they crust over the brickwork. It began as a…

Place Fréhel is a small, triangular public square marked by a bronze statue of the French singer Fréhel, who lived in Belleville for years. She sits on a bench, cast in metal, eternally watching the neighborhood streets. This spot occupies…

The Belvédère de Belleville is a stark, rectangular concrete platform that hangs over the edge of the Parc de Belleville, offering a panoramic view of the Paris skyline. This site was once the location of the Pigeonnier, a…

A wall covered in layers of spray paint, wheat-pasted posters, and jagged stencils marks the transition from the pavement of Rue de la Mare to the local neighborhood landscape. These walls serve as a rotating canvas for street artists who…

A waterfall of jagged, layered concrete stones tumbles down the steep slope of the Rue des Cascades. This structure marks the historic path of the old Belleville aqueducts that once funneled water into Paris. In the nineteenth century,…

The mural featuring a group of men in flat caps and period coats marks the corner of Rue des Pyrénées and Rue de Ménilmontant. It recreates a scene from the nineteen thirty-five film C’est nous les gars d’Ménilmontant, which captured the…