Paris - a day in the 16th - ideas needed
 

Another thread has inspired me to admit that we have never really spent much time in the 16th. That said, can anyone recommend a self-guided walk? Or, just a bunch of ideas of what we might do for a day roaming around the arondissement .... thanks in advance!

On the Avenue Mozart there is the mansion that Hector Guimard built for himself. Not far from there is le Corbusier's Villa la Roche which can be visited.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/...57623299527007

If the weather is lousy, there's the Marmottan at one end of the arrondissement and the Cité de l'Architecture with its full size replicas and also models of important buildings in the Trocadéro facing the Eiffel tower. The musée de la Marine is also in the
Trocadéro.

Are you going in March by any chance?

Your post is interestig to me because my parents lived in the Villa Montmorency in the 20's. It is now a gated and very secure community and inaccessible (I thought because we have tried to enter to show our children the house in the past). During WWII, the 16th, and the Villa was taken over by the German high command for their housing. Googling I found that perhaps there is a house open to the public. I think this area is where Sarkozy lives.
It is just "around the corner" from pl. Auteuil so this might interest you. I think this is from the Rough Guide.
Paris Guide
Western Paris
Villa Montmorency
Opening time: Mon 1.30–6pm, Tues– Thurs 10am–12.30pm & 1.30–6pm, Fri 10am–12.30pm & 1.30–5pm, Sat 10am–5pm, closed AugPrice: €3 www.fondationlecorbusier.fr Address: Rue Poussin, M° Jasmin Just off place Lorrain (on bus #52's route), carriage gates open onto Villa Montmorency, one of the grander villas – more like an exclusive estate (with a security guard on the gate). The writer André Gide, and the Goncourt brothers of Prix Goncourt fame, lived in this one. Behind it, in a cul-de-sac off rue du Dr-Blanche, are Le Corbusier's first private houses (1923), the Villa Jeanneret and the Villa La Roche, now in the care of the Fondation Le Corbusier. You can visit one of the houses, the Villa La Roche, built in strictly Cubist style, very plain, with windows in bands, the only extravagance a curved frontage. They look commonplace enough now from the outside, but were a great contrast with anything that had gone before, and once you're inside the spatial play still seems ground-breaking. The interior is appropriately decorated with Cubist paintings

Roland Garros also offers tours.
In other post I included links for photos of Guimard buildings in area.

thanks for great ideas!

The Passy cemetery has some graves of interest, such as Debussy, but you'd probably have to be interested in certain people who are there to care about that. Manet is there, also (the painter). http://www.pariscemeteries.com/pages/passy.html

Ave Mozart is nice and all the Guimard/Art Nouveau buildings. There is the wine museum and Maison de Balzac is interesting (I thought, you'd have to like Balzac, of course). I believe it is free entry http://www.paris.fr/english/museums/...284_port_19028

Of course there are a lot of museums you must know about (Marmottan, and the few over at Trocadero, and some others like the Guimet-- the Musee de la Marine is quite interesting). I really like the Musee Galliera (fashion), also, near Iena metro stop, but its openings are not as predictable as some museums, you have to check their exhibit schedule.

I found a fairly complete walking tour online of the Art Nouveau buildings in the 16th but I can't find it now. This site has some photos and lists the most important ones, I think http://www.robincamille.com/2009-05-...ector-guimard/

Pedestrian market street rue de l'Annonciation is a good diversion after the wine museum/Maison de Balzac, it's not far from there. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/51444933
I wouldn't go out of my way to go there, it's just if you are in the area.

even if it's nice weather, don't miss the Marmotten. there is a nice park on the way, and some very nice cafes with tables outside on the way back. definitely worth at least 1/2 a day whatever the weather.