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Starting point and access: Cuire metro station.
- Metro - Line C (terminus). Take the exit at the end of the platform, at the front of the train.
- Bus - Lines C1, C13, 33.
(S/E) When you exit the metro station, cross Rue de la Gare de Cuire and walk along the bus station on your right. At the end, turn right and cross Rue Coste at the traffic lights. Then turn left, cross Rue Claude Baudrand on the right-hand side and follow Chemin du Penthod. Continue along Allée des Mont d'Or. At the end of the tarmac road, continue straight ahead along Voie de la Dombes.
(1) At the end, turn right onto Avenue Jean Monnet. At the traffic lights, cross Avenue Pasteur and continue along Avenue Jean Monnet. At the next traffic lights, turn left towards the swimming pool. After about 300 metres, take thefirst right, Rue Abbé Lemire. You will come to a crossroads where the street opposite is a dead end.
(2) Then take the street diagonally to the left, which climbs gently to the Belvédère de Montessuy (orientation table). Retrace your steps to the crossroads.
(2) Then turn sharply left, heading south, and enter the cul-de-sac that slopes gently downwards. At the end of the tarmac road, take a grassy path on the left. Pass under the viewpoint, go down a flight of steps and continue along the path. Go through a gate and you will come out onto a road.
Follow the road to the right, downhill. When the road turns left, at No. 94, continue straight ahead and go down a staircase. Continue along a street, the Montée du Petit Versailles (follow it downhill). Cross the street at the pedestrian crossing and follow it on the left-hand pavement. When the street bends to the right, take a path on the left (not shown on the map) that goes uphill. You will come out on Rue Jean-Baptiste Gillard and follow it to the left.
(3) When the street turns left, leave it and continue straight ahead on a gravel path towards Saint-Clair (chicane). Walk along the Montessuy reservoir on your left. At thefirst intersection (litter bin), turn right at the hairpin bend. At the end of the path, turn left and go down a steep staircase.
At the bottom, follow a street to the right for about 100 metres. Then turn left to cross the street. Cross diagonally to the right across Place des Moulins du Rhône and take a footbridge over a street. Go down a spiral staircase and continue south towards the Rhône. At an intersection, turn right onto a wide paved path. After about 50 metres, take the Passerelle de la Paix footbridge on the left over the Rhône.
(4) At the end of the footbridge, cross Quai Charles de Gaulle (note the monumental sculpture of a bear on the right, on the forecourt of the Palais des Congrès). Continue straight ahead between two buildings towards entrances A and B. At a crossroads (a kind of patio), follow a covered alleyway between bars and restaurants on the left. Pass a sculpture of two penguins and arrive at the Esplanade Raymond Barre, at the foot of a sculpture representing a man listening to his mobile phone.
Turn right and, before the bus lane, turn left into a covered passageway. Walk past the Cité des Congrès (basin). At the traffic lights just before the railway bridge, turn right and cross the bus lane.
(5) Enter the Parc de la Tête d'Or and immediately ignore a path on the right. At the fork that appears shortly afterwards, take the wide tarmac path on the right. Then ignore a path coming from the left. Cross a river over a bridge, continue straight ahead along the wide path and ignore the path on the left leading to the Grande Île.
After about 100 metres, leave the tarmac and take a path on the left along the lake. Walk along the lake on your left until you reach the entrance to the tunnel leading to the Ile du Souvenir Français (closed for works in November 2019).
(6) Continue straight ahead along the lake. Take a footbridge over a stream and continue along the lake. Take a second footbridge and continue straight ahead until you reach the wide tarmac path. Follow this to the left and pass in front of the Peace and Justice sculpture. Continue straight ahead along the wide path until you reach the main gate of the park. Leave the park through a small gate on the right-hand side of the gate.
(7) Turn right at the foot of the 1870-1871 memorial. Cross a tarmac path and then Quai Charles de Gaulle in two stages. Then take the Wiston Churchill Bridge on its right-hand side to cross the Rhône again. At the end, turn right and cross Quai Bellevue at the traffic lights, then Cours Aristide Briand. Follow the latter on the right for about 200 metres.
(8) Then climb the stairs on the left, the Montée des Lilas. At the landing, take the stairs on the right, still going uphill. The stairs turn left. Cross a dead end and continue up the stairs. At the end, continue along an alley, still on the Montée des Lilas.
At the end, turn right onto Rue de Verdun. Cross Rue de l'Orangerie and continue straight ahead. At the end of Rue de Verdun, turn left onto Rue de l'Oratoire until you reach a large roundabout. Go around the roundabout on the left and take Rue Claude Baudrand opposite. At the end, cross Rue Coste, turn left at the bus station and you will soon reach Cuire metro station (S/E).
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