Atmosphere, Atmosphere! An unusual and romantic cruise at the heart of " Paris of the Parisians ". Of the Marina of Paris-arsenal in the Marina of the pond of the Villette. Navigate the Saint Martin canal and leave by chance its locks, bascule bridges and of its mysterious subterranean vault of the Bastille, full of holes of light... A place marked with magic and with beauty. Then the Hotel of the North, made famous by the movie of Marcel Carné's same name in 1938. To end your cruise on the pond of the Villette. This canal of small size was intended, originally, for the drinkable water conveyance in the capital. Inaugurated in 1825, it contains nine locks and two bascule bridges for a total lowering of 25 m. With the canal of Ourcq, the pond of Villette and the canal Saint-Denis, it establishes the network of canals Parisian, 130 km long, which belongs to the City of Paris.
The canal Saint-Martin is registered ancient memorial since February 23rd, 1993
5 km
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max. 52 m
min. 29 m
29 m
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Styles : BaladeIn townUnusual Public : FamilySeniors Themes : CulturalPatrimony |
Around the site of canals developed, from the second quarter of the XIXth century, an intense activity of freight and harbour. In last half of the same century it was the support of a very important industrialization, in Paris as on the territory of the current Seine Saint-Denis. At the same time the harbour traffic of the Pond of the Villette was for its peak, and equivalent to that of the port of Bordeaux. This traffic of freight knew, in the course of the XXth century, bound important peaks, for the main part, about the activity of the BTP(BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING WORKS) after the big world conflicts. In constant diminution since the middle of the XXth century, this traffic, become no for the Pond of La Villette, came down at present for all the Parisian canals at its lowest historic level (around 1Mt in the year 2000).
Situated in the district of the Bastille, the pond of the Arsenal has a garden of a hectare decorated with a rose garden. It arranges 170 mooring berths and welcomes 25 metre boats maximum, with places in the year, in the month and the day.
Distance in km: 4,5 km
Number of locks: 8
Size (length x width): 42 m x 7,80 m
Draft: 1,80 m
Headroom: 4,20 m