Architecture Art Nouveau (Modern). Balzac Museum and Wine Museum

There are so many famous sights in Paris, but only these places Parisians admiringly call "Veaux quartiers" - beautiful neighborhoods. And indeed, the architecture here is striking in splendor and diversity. No house is a masterpiece. And what a non-touristic calm atmosphere - what nice and well-dressed people.

Passy. Once very remote from the center of Paris village. A suburb of wealthy people. In the early twentieth century - a typical "bedroom" area, where in anticipation of the coming storms bought an apartment Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius. Twenty years later, Passy became the most “Russian” quarter of Paris. "Where do you live?" one immigrant asked another. "Like everyone on Passes." Today Passy is one of the most fashionable quarters of Paris. Interesting House-Museum of Balzac (with exits in two levels - to the owner was more convenient to hide from creditors), narrow and steep-step street Waters and located next to it Wine Museum - with basements and a tasting room. And of course Guimar's art nouveau mansions. Eat.

Today these places are an open-air museum of architecture. The most famous buildings are the unusual houses of the architect Guimar in the Art Nouveau style. The tour can be both pedestrian and car. It all depends on mood and weather.