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Starting point and access: Place Gambetta.
- Metro - Line 3 or 3bis. Take exit 1 Mairie du 20e.
(S) When you exit the metro station, go straight ahead, walk past the 20th arrondissement town hall on your left and follow Rue Belgrand. Cross Rue du Japon and enter Square Édouard Vaillant.
At the fork immediately ahead, turn left and pass a small greenhouse on your right. At the next fork, turn right and walk past the Doctor Métivier memorial. At the T-junction, turn left. Walk past a kiosk, the statue of Gambetta, a playground and finally some toilets on your left before leaving the square on your right.
Turn left immediately and cross Avenue Gambetta at the traffic lights. Follow the avenue to the left, then turn right into Rue des Gâtines. At the crossroads, turn right into Rue du Cambodge (note the colourful patterns on the façades of numbers 16 and 18). At the end, turn left into Rue Orfila and cross Rue des Pyrénées at the traffic lights.
(1) Follow Rue des Pyrénées to the right, cross Rue Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and turn left onto Rue du Retrait (note the murals on the right-hand side). Then turn into thesecond street on the left, Rue Laurence Savart. Walk down this cobbled street and, at the bottom, turn left onto Rue Boyer.
At the next intersection, turn sharply right onto Rue de la Bidassoa. After about 50 metres, turn right onto Rue Juillet. At the traffic lights, cross Rue Sorbier and go down the stairs opposite, which lead to Rue des Plâtrières. Follow this street to the right and, at the next intersection, turn right onto Rue des Amandiers.
(2) Cross Rue de Ménilmontant and go around the back of the church on the right into a narrow street. Cross a small square and take the footbridge over the old Petite Ceinture railway line.
Continue along Rue de la Mare and, at the crossroads, continue straight ahead along this street. Then take the first right, uphill, onto Rue de Savies. At the top (opposite the Saint-Martin manhole cover of the Belleville aqueduct), turn left onto Rue des Cascades.
(3) When you reach Place Henri Krasucki, turn right onto Rue Levert, which ends in a staircase. At the top, cross Rue des Pyrénées, then turn left and cross Place Henri Malberg. Then turn right onto Rue du Jourdain. Just before the church, turn right, cross Rue de Belleville and continue along Rue de Palestine with the church on your left.
At the end, turn right onto Rue des Solitaires. Takethe first left onto Rue Arthur Rozier. Cross the bridge over Rue de Crimée. Pass Villa Albert Robida on your left, then cross Rue Compans and continue along Rue des Mignottes.
(4) At the next crossroads, turn right onto Rue de la Mouzaïa. Turn right into Villa d'Alsace and continue along the street. Turn right up Villa Émile Loubet. At the top, turn left onto Rue de Bellevue. Go down thesecond alley on the left, Villa des Lilas. At the end, cross the street and continue opposite Villa de la Renaissance. At the end, cross the street again and continue along Villa du Danube.
At the end, turn left onto Rue David d'Angers. Just before the square (metro), turn left onto Rue de la Fraternité (note the sign for a former charity on the right-hand side). At the T-junction, turn right onto Rue de la Liberté. At the corner of No. 13, turn right into Villa Amalia. At the end, cross Rue du Général Brunet and follow it to the left.
Between numbers 23 and 21, turn right into Villa de Cronstadt. Cross the street and continue straight ahead into Villa Claude Monet. At the end, go down the stairs, go straight ahead onto Rue François Pinton and walk past a swimming pool on your left.
(5) At the crossroads, turn left onto Rue David d'Angers. Go around the next crossroads on the right, cross Rue Manin and continue along Rue d'Hautpoul (red and yellow marker). After about 100 metres, turn left onto Allée Darius Milhaud (pedestrian street) and walk along the right-hand side of Collège Georges Brassens. At the roundabout, turn right onto Rue Erik Satie. Then turn left onto Rue Georges Auric.
At the end, turn left and go under the bridge of the old Petite Ceinture railway line. Turn immediately right onto Rue André Danjon, with the old railway line on your right.
Cross Avenue Jean Jaurès at the traffic lights and continue straight ahead on Rue de l'Ourcq (with heavily graffitied walls on the right-hand side). Walk along a garden on your right, then a small sports field. At the traffic lights, cross Rue de Thionville and turn right onto Rue de la Marne to reach the quay of the same name.
(6) Then turn right and walk along the Bassin de la Villette on your left. Pass under the Petite Ceinture bridge and immediately climb the stairs on the left. Cross the basin via the footbridge parallel to the railway bridge. Go back down and continue straight ahead along Quai de l'Oise.
Walk along the basin on your right and continue along Quai de la Gironde, staying below (do not stay too close to the water, as this will lead to a dead end). Pass a public baths and then a swimming pool on your left and, at Rue Barbanègre, climb a staircase. At the top, turn right and cross the Canal Saint-Denis at its first lock.
(7) Continue straight ahead and enter Parc de la Villette (landmark L3). Then turn left into the covered gallery with a corrugated roof and keep the large Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie building on your right. At the corner, turn right towards the metro and immediately turn left towards landmark N1.
Pass by the clock (N1) and head towards the sign indicating the metro, tram and bus. Pass under a porch and you will arrive at Porte de la Villette with immediate access to public transport (E).
To return home:
- Metro - Line 7.
- Tram - Line T3b.
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