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Start from the swimming pool car park (aquatic centre).
(S/E) Take Rue Léo Lagrange to the entrance of the Russian cemetery.
(1) Enter the cemetery, where everyone can follow their own route so as to exit onto Rue Léo Lagrange via the other gate. As a guide, the route shown on the map passes by the foot of the onion-domed church and circles round the eastern end of the cemetery.
Then continue left along Rue Léo Lagrange until you reach the junction.
(2) Walk about a hundred metres to the right to see the life-size elephant that stands proudly in the square. Then retrace your steps.
(2) Take the path, Route de Corbeil, leading towards the equestrian centre on the right (on the left if you haven’t made the round trip to the elephant). At the edge of the woodland, turn left onto the wide, beautiful, straight avenue running along the edge of the woodland on your right. (NB: you can opt for a longer route through the 76-hectare woodland; if you continue past the equestrian centre, you’ll find another wide, beautiful avenue, running parallel to the first, and the remains of a fence from an old castle).
(3) At the junction with the D296, turn left onto the cycle path and follow it to the roundabout. Then turn right onto the footpath towards the Lycée Albert Einstein. First turn left then right to walk alongside the canal (which is actually a rainwater retention basin) on your right.
(4) About a hundred metres before the bridge, you’ll find the footpath on the left, running between the buildings. This crosses Avenue de la Liberté once, then a second time, before coming out onto Rue Montesquieu.
Turn left, then right after a few dozen metres, onto a footpath that initially runs parallel to Rue des Bergers, before veering off it to reach a roundabout (Rue Paul Eluard and Rue de Cuverville).
(5) At the roundabout, continue straight ahead along Rue Paul Eluard, which becomes Rue Jean Mermoz at the next junction. Walk alongside the shopping centre, past the petrol station (staying on the left-hand pavement) until you reach a large roundabout. Go round the roundabout on the left, then, at the corner of Avenue du Château, turn right into the garden and enter the grounds of the Donjon. Enter the Donjon’s courtyard (where you should walk round it if the courtyard is closed). Once in the courtyard, don’t forget to turn round and admire the façade!
(6) Turn left to exit through the large wrought-iron gate onto Rue de la Tour. Cross Rue de l’Orangerie and take Rue Marc Sangnier. At the Salle Gérard Philipe, turn left onto Allée de la Fontaine. At the junction with the D46, look out for the Grotte de Sainte Geneviève on your left. A sign provides some information about the cave’s origins.
(7) Turn left onto the D46 and continue to the roundabout. Cross the Route de Corbeil and, opposite, take Avenue Jacques Duclos, following the cycle path that runs alongside it on the right, until you reach the swimming pool (S/E).
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