Besides its official scientific, industrial and artistic palaces, the Exposition offered an extraordinary variety of amusements and diversions. These included Vieux Paris, a recreation of the streets of old Paris, from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, with recreations of historic buildings and streets filled with performers and musicians in costumes; recreations of the bazaars, souks and street markets of Algiers and Tunis and Laos. also with costumed vendors and musicians. The Swiss Village, at the edge of the Exposition near Avenue de Sufren and Motte-Piquet, was a recreation of a Swiss mountainside village, complete with a 35-metre cascade, a lake, and collection of thirty-five chalets.[24]