Your apartment is located one block from the ‘Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers’, the French State University for applied sciences. This area is also named the ‘Haut Marais’, the high part of Marais area, in the 3rd district (arrondissement) of Paris, to make the difference with the south part of Marais located in the 4th district.
Like many areas in Paris, the face of this district changed a lot over the last 30 years. Instead of small workshops, cabinetmakers, tailors or goldsmiths, you will now discover trendy restaurants, organic food stores, art galleries, new designers and creators. You will maybe see the ‘Carreau du Temple’: this former second hand clothes market is going to be turned up in a cultural and sport hall, keeping its historic metal structures dating back to the 19th century.
The area is living a real metamorphosis: private mansions from the 17th and 18th centuries, old buildings completely renovated, enlarged sidewalks with more trees: walkers and bikers are getting always more place in this part of the city!.
A 10 minutes walk and you will reach the very heart of the City of Lights! Walk down on rue Beaubourg or Rue Saint Martin and you will be on Piazza Beaubourg, right by Beaubourg and the National Museum of Modern Art. 
An other option: walk down on Rue de Turbigo and you will reach the Forum des Halles, the largest shopping mall in France, the largest (underground) railway et metro station, but also a huge garden with its panorama on Saint Eustache Church and Beaubourg…On an opposite direction, you can walk until Place de la République: you will be few steps from the romantic Canal Saint Martin.
Your flat is also ideally located right between 2 very similar, and at the same time very distinctive areas. On the east side, during the day or all the night long, the Marais will offer you its numerous bars, ‘delicatessen’, restaurants and clubs…On the west side, ‘Montorgueil’ is a part of a large pedestrian area. Have a look on the food stores, restaurants and trendy fashion or home decoration shops: this is the area showed to Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II as a ‘popular Parisian street’…
