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A 90-Minute Walk in Buttes-Chaumont

This area in the east of the city is little known to many visitors, garden 0. This is owned by
yet it contains one of Paris’s biggest and most beautiful parks the city but tended by local
and some fascinating architecture. The walk is quite strenuous residents who can often be
with many steps, and takes in a charming micro-village, the found working here.
Butte Bergeyre, which is perched high above the city and has Head back down the Rue
Georges Lardennois to the Rue
unusual houses in contrasting styles. After descending from Michel Tagrine and take the ivy-
the village, the walk continues in Buttes-Chaumont park, a draped steps back down to the
vast hill complete with a lake with a huge island and folly, rocky main road q. Continue straight
outcrops and a wonderful variety of trees and plants. and then turn right onto the
Avenue Mathurin-Moreau,
noting the fine Art Deco building
at No. 42 w with its glittering
gold -coloured tile detail. At
the end of the road, cross R U E M A N I N
Rue Manin to the PLACE A
entrance to CARREL
the park.

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R U E s t a CHAUMONT

View across the city towards Sacré-Coeur 8 CARREFOUR AVENUE DE LA CASCADE Botzaris
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COLONNE R U E B O T Z A R I S
The Butte Bergeyre Bolivar A V ENU E S E C R E T A N r
From the Metro Buttes- 200m (220 yards)
Chaumont 1, take the Rue A VE N UE MAT H URIN MOREAU AVE DE GEN. P LINIER S R U E H A S S AR D
Botzaris, turning right onto the w e
Avenue Simon Bolivar until you Buttes RUE DU P LA TEAU
reach the stairs at No. 54 2, A V E N U E Chaumont
which lead up into the Butte q R U E P H H E C H T 1 R UE P RÉ A U LT
Bergeyre. At the top of the stairs, 7 6 5
pause to absorb the enchanting S I M O 9 RUE R DE GOURMONT 4 R U E FE SSART
atmosphere of this micro-village 8 RUE ED G AR POE R U E M A N I N
of five little streets. Construction N B O L I V A R 0 R UE G . LARDENN OIS 3 R U E B O T Z A R I S
started in the 1920s, but there
RUE BARRELET DE R ICOU
are also some modern buildings. 2
Carry on into the Rue Barrelet de RU E P RAD I ER
Ricou 3 to admire the ivy- R U E L A U Z I N A V E N U E S I M O N B O L I V A R
covered house at No. 13 4,
then continue to the end of the
road to take a left into the Rue
Philippe Hecht 5, where the
chalet-style house at No. 7 6 is
an interesting contrast to the
creeper-covered Art Deco gem
at No. 13 7. At the end of the
street, take a left up to the corner
of the Rue Georges Lardennois
and the Rue Rémy-de-Gourmont
for a wonderful view across the
city 8 of Montmartre with its
wedding-cake Sacré-Coeur on
top. Be sure to admire the tiny
patch of grapevines 9 in the
residents’ garden below. Close
to this mini-vineyard is a small Some of the lovely mature trees in Buttes-Chaumont park

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