The site

 

 

Located on the banks of the Canal St Martin, the Hôtel du Nord offers a warm shelter in Paris' hustle and bustle. Surrounded with trees, this inner-river dug in 1825 is a silent testimony of the harsh life and working conditions which ruled the1900’s eastern suburbs.

Despite the habitation expansion in the area, accommodating today a trendy middle-class population, the Canal is resisting and will keep its memory “in summer and in winter” as the French poet Jacques Prévert said. Then, watching the ballet of the rowers under the jagged steel suspension bridges time is freezing over a drink.

The façade

 

Immortalized by Marcel Carné movie “l’Hôtel du nord”, this façade which has become a legend has kept its cachet. It attracts the looks and the curiosity of the passers-by and the stroller is invited to push the door and come in the bar