The literary cafés
Café de Flore, Les Deux Magots and Brasserie Lipp — the tables of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Hemingway and Picasso, still pouring coffee on the boulevard Saint-Germain. Together they made the quarter the intellectual heart of 20th-century Paris.
- 🏛️TypeHistoric cafés · area
- 📍AddressBoulevard Saint-Germain, 75006 Paris
- 🎟️AdmissionOpen access · free to wander
- 🕑AccessOpen access · free to wander
- 🚇AccessMétro Saint-Germain-des-Prés (4) or Mabillon (10) — at the door
- 🗺️NearbyThe abbey church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Deux Magots square and Rue de Buci are all on the spot.
Where it is — and what's around
The literary cafés (pulsing marker) at the centre. Toggle the filters to show the heritage, restaurants and activities of the 6th — and the hotels around.