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Departure from République Metro station – Lines 3, 5, 8, 9 and 11. Exit 4 “Rue du Faubourg du Temple”.
(S) Leave the metro via the right-hand exit. At the top of the stairs, continue straight ahead onto Rue du Faubourg du Temple. Once on the quayside, cross to the left at the pedestrian crossing and enter Square Lemaître opposite. Walk past the bust of Frédéric Lemaître on the left and take the path on the left. Walk to the end of the path and exit the square on the right onto Quai de Jemmapes. Turn left immediately. Pass the first footbridge immediately on your left (Passerelle des Douanes).
(1) At the next footbridge (Passerelle d’Alibert), turn right onto Rue Alibert and continue to a junction. Turn right onto Rue Bichat, then left onto Rue Jacques Louvel-Tessier. Cross Avenue Parmentier and Rue Saint-Maur, then continue straight ahead onto Rue du Buisson Saint-Louis. Pass the Passage du Buisson Saint-Louis on your left three times, then turn left onto Rue du Chalet. A little further on, turn right into the Jardin Blanche Hoschedé.
(2) Cross the garden and exit onto Rue Sambre et Meuse. Turn left, cross Avenue Claude Vellefaux and turn right into Square Juliette Dodu. Cross the square and exit onto Rue Juliette Dodu.
(3) Continue to the right, skirting a small triangular square on your left, cross Rue Vicq d'Azir then Rue de la Grange aux Belles. Continue straight ahead onto Rue des Écluses Saint-Martin, then take the small, artistically decorated pedestrian street Boy-Zelensky on your right. Follow this street and, when you reach a small square with a fountain in the centre, turn left, then enter Square Amadou-Hampâté-Bâ on the right.
(4) Cross the square; on leaving, go round the stadium below on the left and pass through a small gate. Go down four steps, pass a table tennis table on the right, and turn left into the pedestrian street, Georg Friedrich Haendel. At the end of the street, join the Quai de Jemmapes.
(5) Cross it at the pedestrian crossing set back to the left, then turn right and enter SquareHenri Christiné on the left. Go left and exit the square. Cross the canal via the Maria Casarès bridge and enter Square Eugène Varlin on the right. Go straight ahead, then exit the square at the far end on the left.
(6) Take Quai de Valmy on the left. At the traffic lights, turn right onto Rue Eugène Varlin, then left onto Rue Robert Blache, and a little further on, turn left into Square Madeleine Tribolati.
(7) Walk past a playground on your left and leave the square. Head back along Rue Blache to the left, passing under a block of flats. Turn immediately left to go round the green square, Place Raoul Follereau. Turn left into a pedestrian walkway, Avenue de Verdun. Continue along this, passing a central reservation on the right and, further on, the Bibliothèque Villemin on the left.
(8) Turn left into Parc Villemin.Take thefirst path on the left. At the three-way junction, take the path on the right, then the paved path on the left, opposite the playground.
Continue along a short wooden walkway that ends in large paving slabs. At the end, turn left then right, passing a large fountain on your right, then the bandstand on your left, and, before taking the exit opposite, walk around the picturesque community garden on your right. On leaving the park, turn right onto Quai de Valmy, following the canal on your left. Turn leftinto Square des Récollets.
(9) Walk around the square, leave it and head back onto Quai de Valmy on the left. Turn right onto Rue des Vinaigriers, going down a flight of steps in front of a mural. Cross Rue Lucien Sampaix then turn right onto Passage Dubail. Follow this passageway, which turns left and joins Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin. Turn left to cross Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin at the pedestrian crossing, then right to find Square Saint-Laurent a little further on to the left.
Cross the square and exit onto Boulevard Magenta. Cross Boulevard Magenta at the pedestrian crossing on the left, then turn right to cross Boulevard de Strasbourg and turn left onto Rue de la Fidélité. Turn right onto Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, which slopes slightly upwards, and enter Square Alban Satragne on the left .
(10) Take the first path on the left, walk round the fountain, return towards the entrance, then turn left, keeping the games tables on your left, and exit onto Boulevard Magenta. Head left and cross the boulevard at the traffic lights, then cross Rue du 8 mai 1945 to the right and continue to the right. Turn left onto Rue d’Alsace. Climb the stairs, go straight on and enter the Jardin Marielle Franco on the right. Head left and take the exit further along on the left, using a footbridge to Rue d’Alsace. Continue straight ahead onto Rue de Dunkerque, then turn left onto Rue Lafayette. Cross Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, Rue de Saint-Quentin and Boulevard de Magenta, then turn right into Square Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.
(11) Walk around the square, exit to the right, cross Rue d’Abbeville, Place Franz Liszt and Rue Lafayette, then take the next right onto Rue d’Hauteville, which slopes downwards. Cross Rue Chabrol, Rue des Messageries, Rue de Paradis, Rue des Petites Écuries, Rue d’Enghien and turn left onto Rue de l’Échiquier. Opposite No. 28, turn right into the Jardin Yılmaz Güney. Walk through it and exit onto Impasse de Bonne Nouvelle. Turn right to reach Bonne Nouvelle metro station, lines 8 and 9 (E).
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