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Starting point: Louvre-Rivoli metro station – Line 1.
(S) On leaving the elegant metro station, turn around and continue along Rue de l’Amiral de Coligny, passing the Louvre Palace on your right and the Church of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois on your left. When you reach the Seine, turn right onto Quai François Mitterrand.
(1) Turn left onto the Pont des Arts, which offers an unobstructed view of the Île de la Cité. Turn right onto Quai de Conti, cross the quay at the pedestrian crossing with the traffic lights, walk for about thirty metres, passing a small triangular square on your right, and turn left onto Rue de Seine. Walk along the right-hand side of Square Honoré Champion. A few dozen metres further on, turn left into Square Gabriel Pierné. Walk around it and continue along Rue de Seine. Take thesecond right, the narrow Rue Visconti, and turn right at No. 10 into the Jardin Alice Saunier Seité.
(2) Walk around the garden and continue along Rue Visconti. At the end of the street, turn left onto Rue Bonaparte, then right onto Rue Jacob. Pass Rue Saint Benoît on your left, and at the next junction turn left onto Rue des Saints-Pères. At the end of the street, you will reach the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of Saint Volodymyr the Great.
(3) Turn left onto Boulevard Saint-Germain, then immediately left into Square Taras Shevchenko. Note a mural on the side façade of the Société de Géographie, located at 184 Boulevard Saint-Germain. Walk around the square and, on exiting, head left back onto Boulevard Saint-Germain. Turn left onto Rue Saint-Benoît, then right onto Rue Guillaume Apollinaire, arriving at Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
(4) Turn right at the foot of the church into Square Laurent Prache.
(4) On leaving the square, turn left, walk past the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the oldest church in Paris, turn left onto Boulevard Saint-Germain, walk past the Saint-Germain-des-Prés metro station and immediately turn left into Square Félix Desruelles.
(5) On leaving the square, head left back onto Boulevard Saint-Germain, continue to the traffic lights, cross at the pedestrian crossing and turn right into Rue du Four. After a few dozen metres, cross Rue du Four at the pedestrian crossing and continue on the left-hand pavement. Turn left into Rue Princesse, right into Rue Guisarde, and left into Rue des Cannettes. At the end of the street, pass Place Saint-Sulpice and its monumental fountain on your right, and turn left onto Rue Saint-Sulpice, walking alongside the church on your right. Cross Rue Garancière and Rue de Tournon on your right and arrive at Rue de Condé.
(6) Turn right; at the fork, keep right and, at the end of the street, turn right, passing Square Francis Poulenc on your right . Cross Rue de Tournon and continue along Rue de Vaugirard. Take thethird right, Rue Servandoni. At the end of the street, turn left onto Rue Palatine. Cross Place Saint-Sulpice, keeping to the left and once again leaving the majestic fountain on your right. Turn left onto Rue Bonaparte, taking the side lane on the left, the Promenade de l’Allée du Séminaire Jean-Jacques Olier.
(7) At the end of the promenade, cross Rue de Vaugirard, turn left, and enter the Jardin du Luxembourg on the right. Take thefirst major path on the left to go round the Orangerie du Sénat on the right. Walk past the Eugène Delacroix Fountain on your left. At the end of the path, turn right to go round the Palais du Luxembourg (you can continue for a few dozen metres along the fence on the left to see the famous Medici Fountain on your right).
(8) Then take the path on the right to cross the garden. Pass the octagonal pond on your right and, at the end of the path, climb four steps, leaving a lion sculpture on your left, and continue straight ahead. When you reach the gate, turn right and take the exit.
(9) Cross Rue Auguste Comte and head straight ahead onto EsplanadeGaston Monnerville. Cross Rue Michelet. Note, on the right, the impressive, colourful building of the Institute of Art and Archaeology. Continue straight ahead into the Garden of the Great Explorers Marco Polo and Cavelier de la Salle.
(10) Exit at the far end of the garden behind the Fountain of the Four Parts of the World. Cross at the pedestrian crossing opposite, then continue along a central reservation. Cross to the right at the pedestrian crossing to cross Rue d’Assas, take another central reservation and, in front of a statue of Marshal Ney on the left, turn right into Rue Notre-Dame des Champs. Note the richly decorated façade of the building at No. 82, and opposite, on the wall of the women’s hall of residence, a stylised bird in what appears to be ceramic. Cross Rue Vavin and continue straight on until you reach a small tree-lined square with a statue of Captain Dreyfus in the centre. Then turn left, cross Boulevard Raspail in two stages and continue straight ahead onto Rue Stanislas. Turn right into Square Ozanam.
(11) Cross the square and exit onto Boulevard du Montparnasse. Turn right, pass the entrance to the Church of Notre-Dame des Champs, cross Rue du Montparnasse, pass Impasse Robiquet on your right and turn right onto Rue de Rennes. Cross immediately at the traffic lights to take the left-hand pavement. Turn left onto Rue Littré and, at the end of the street, turn right again onto Rue de Vaugirard and head towards Rue Jean Ferrandi on the left.
(12) Follow this street and, at the end, cross at the pedestrian crossing on the left and enter the Jardin du Père Armand David opposite by pushing open a heavy door.
(13) On leaving the garden, turn right onto Rue du Cherche Midi, then right onto Rue Saint Romain; at the end of the street, cross Rue de Sèvres and turn right. Pass Rue Vanneau on your left, go past No. 42 in front of the Egyptian fountain known as the Fellah Fountain, and just after that, reach the Vanneau metro station – Line 10 (E).
Visorando Member
Moderate 
Association / Club / Walk leader
Difficult 
