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Tips for Walkers
Starting point: Metro Buttes-
Chaumont.
Length: 2.5 km (1.5 miles).
Note: This is a very steep walk in
parts, with many steps.
Getting there: Go to Buttes-
Chaumont Metro station, on line
7 bis. Or take buses Nos. 26, 60
and 75 to the stop for Buttes-
Chaumont park.
Stopping off points: The park
has its own restaurant, Le Pavillon
du Lac (good Sunday brunch) but
The suspension bridge in Buttes-Chaumont park i there are plenty of benches for
picnicking. La Kaskad opposite
R U E M A N I N Key the park (at 2 Place Armand-
PLACE A Carrel) is a fashionable café for
CARREL Walk route snacks and drinks, with a terrace
that is ideal on a sunny day.
0 metres 200
o R U E D E C R I M É E 0 yards 200 admire the 50-m (164-ft) high
p u PA RC man-made island p. Follow the
M A N I N i y DES BUTTES with steps carved out of lakeshore around until you hear
rushing water. One of the park’s
R U E s t a CHAUMONT the façade; climb them most impressive features is the
to the top. Go on
32-m (105-ft) high waterfall a
hidden inside a grotto. Walk
along a tree-lined
CARREFOUR AVENUE DE LA CASCADE d Botzaris path to join the right up to the waterfall looking
DE LA
COLONNE R U E B O T Z A R I S Avenue du up to see a patch of sky and
Bolivar A V ENU E S E C R E T A N r General Puebla some glorious man-made
200m (220 yards) Liniers and stalactites. Take a stepping-
A VE N UE MAT H URIN MOREAU e AVE DE GEN. P LINIER S R U E H A S S A R D reaching the Carrefour stone to the other side of the
follow this until
cave and then exit and rejoin
w
Buttes
is a red-brick mansion house.
heading left. Ascend the few
R UE DU PLA TEAU
Chaumont de la Colonne r, where there the path round the lake,
q R U E P H H E C H T 1 RUE PRÉ A U LT With your back to this go ahead steps, then veer to the left and
7 6 5 to a little bridge lined with up the hill s. Follow the path
A V E N U E
9 RUE R DE GOURMONT 4 terracotta tiles. Cross the bridge around to the Carrefour de la
8 RUE ED G AR POE R U E M A N I N R U E FE SSART t. Take the right branch of Colonne and continue along
S I M O
steps and head up to the top the Avenue de la Cascade to the
0 3 R U E B O T Z A R I S of the cliff. Cross a tiny bridge exit d. From here, you can take
R UE G . LARDENN OIS
R U E P R A D I ER to the folly u, a copy of the
2 y and turn left up some steps the Metro from Botzaris.
RUE BARRELET DE R ICOU
N B O L I V A R
Temple of Sibyl near Rome. This
is the highest point in the park,
R U E L A U Z I N
providing views across the city
A V E N U E S I M O N B O L I V A R
Clifftop folly, the park’s summit u all the way to Sacré-Coeur.
Now take the path on the right
The Buttes-Chaumont Park back to the first bridge. Then
Commissioned by Napoleon III branch right down the steps
and Baron Haussmann in 1864, within man-made rock to an
the park covers 25 ha (61 acres) impressive 63-m (206-ft) long
and took four years to complete. bridge i. Towering over the
It was built by the engineer lake, this provides wonderful
Adolphe Alphand and the views of the park. The bridge
architect Gabriel Davioud. It is may be closed for repairs, so in
packed with mature trees that instance use the terracotta-
including planes, poplars, ash, tiled bridge as before. Cross the
maples, chestnuts, sequoias and bridge and follow the path
beautiful magnolias. At the down to the lake. The lake o is
entrance to the park there is a encircled by weeping willows
man-made rock structure e and benches from which to Man-made waterfall, inside the grotto a
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