Old Bagneux

Short circular walk starting from Châtillon-Montrouge metro station. Discover old Bagneux and Bagneux Cemetery.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 6.14 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 1h 50 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 31 m
  • ↘
    Descent: - 33 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 109 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 75 m

Description of the walk

Depart from Châtillon-Montrouge metro station (terminus of line 13).

(S/E) Take the underground passage to cross the railway tracks (west).

(1) Take the Coulée Verte, which starts on the T6 tram station side. Follow the Coulée Verte south-west to the Pont de Bagneux bridge. Along the way, the Coulée Verte crosses Rue André Gide, Avenue Saint-Exupéry, Rue Étienne Deforges, Rue Pierre Sémard, Rue Courtois, Rue Louveau, Avenue de la République and Rue Perrotin.

(2) Stay on the left side of Avenue Charles de Gaulle and take the bridge to cross the railway tracks. At the crossroads, take the second left, Rue Salvador Allende. Turn left at the first street, Rue Dampierre. Continue left along Place Dampierre. Turn left onto Avenue Henri Ravera, then immediately right to reach the church of Bagneux.

(3) Retrace your steps to the junction with Avenue de la République. Continue and take the first right, Rue de la Mairie. Pass in front of the Town Hall (toilets), cross Rue Salvador Allende and take the street opposite on the right, Rue Pablo Neruda (on the right is a work integration centre, Le Séquoia). Walk down the street for about 200 metres.

(4) Turn left onto Rue de la Porte d'en Bas and follow it for about 80 metres, staying on the left-hand pavement. Enter the park (entrance located between two small buildings). The small path leads you between the new buildings to the Jardin des Monceaux. At the end, turn right onto Rue des Monceaux, then left onto Rue des Mathurins (police station and Restau du Cœur). Continue to Avenue Albert Petit. Cross at the traffic lights.

(5) First turn left then right to enter the Maison des Arts park. Continue straight ahead towards the vegetable garden, then enter the Parc du Puits Saint-Etienne. Go down the right-hand side of the park towards Avenue Gabriel Péri. Cross the avenue, turn right, then left at the next street, Rue des Olivettes. At the end of the street, cross Avenue Henri Ravera, then turn left. Take the first right, Rue René Cros. At the end of the street, turn right onto Avenue de Garlande and continue to the corner of the cemetery.

(6) Enter the Bagneux cemetery and walk across it. Ignore the first path that branches off at an acute angle to the left and, at the next intersection, turn left at a right angle. At the roundabout, turn right. Cross four perpendicular paths and, at the next roundabout, continue straight ahead. Cross five more paths and, at the roundabout, turn left towards the exit. You will then come out onto Avenue Marx Dormoy and follow it to the left. At the crossroads, turn left and you will reach the metro station (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 78 m - Châtillon-Montrouge metro station
  2. 1 : km 0.13 - alt. 80 m - Tram station - Coulée Verte
  3. 2 : km 1.72 - alt. 99 m - Bagneux Bridge
  4. 3 : km 2.42 - alt. 106 m - Bagneux Church
  5. 4 : km 2.88 - alt. 104 m - Rue de la Porte d'en Bas
  6. 5 : km 3.36 - alt. 109 m - Maison des Arts
  7. 6 : km 4.37 - alt. 86 m - Bagneux Cemetery
  8. S/E : km 6.14 - alt. 78 m - Châtillon-Montrouge metro station

Notes

Toilets:
- Town hall (Rue de la Mairie in Bagneux)
- Bagneux cemetery at the entrances and in the middle.

If you are accessing this hike via the T6 tram line, start at point (1).

Worth a visit

The Saint-Hermeland Church in Bagneux is a parish church built in 1011.

Esat le Sequoia: The ESAT Jean Caurant welcomes people with mental disabilities who are stabilised by appropriate psychiatric treatment, offering them work in one of three workshops (Tertiary / Gardens and Green Spaces / Catering). Restaurant open to the public on weekdays: tel. 01 47 46 15 19.

In the Puits Saint-Etienne park: the Maison de Richelieu is a building constructed around 1630 for Pierre Bignicourt, or Bénicourt, contractor for the French Army and Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642). It is said to have been built with His Eminence's money to be used for his secret conferences, and to have been the place where the cardinal eliminated inconvenient witnesses.

Bagneux Cemetery: Barbara, Oscar Wilde, Jacqueline Maillan, etc.

Reviews and comments

4.4 / 5
Based on 12 reviews

Reliability of the description
4.5 / 5
Ease of following the route
4.8 / 5
Route interest
4.1 / 5
nanouyaz
nanouyaz

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Dec 18, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A very pleasant and varied route. There is a slight difficulty at the start: you need to take exit number 2 from the underground and head towards the green corridor.
Make sure you enter the second cemetery and not the first one, which is small.
Impressive cemetery. Remember to ask for a map of the famous people buried there.

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Yannick Barbeau
Yannick Barbeau

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Apr 18, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A very pleasant route through old Bagneux, where you sometimes feel like you're in the centre of a small village. Lots of green spaces and a huge cemetery that's worth a visit in its own right.
We finished the route with a drink in the square in front of the town hall in Montrouge.

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Rose7514
Rose7514

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Mar 30, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

smooth

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Silvere
Silvere

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jan 15, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A pleasant route through the town on a beautiful winter afternoon.
Discover the church of Bagneux with its gravestones.

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Fab_Fab_94
Fab_Fab_94

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 28, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : Yes

An interesting urban walk, and ultimately quite green despite the density of the city. As mentioned in a previous comment, be mindful of the cemetery's opening hours.

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Calaceite
Calaceite

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jan 30, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

We did it in two stages because it started raining on Thursday when we were in old Bagneux, so we took a bus back home (Paris 14) and returned on Saturday (by bus) to continue exploring the old centre of Bagneux and the cemetery.
We were pleasantly surprised by the church in Bagneux (a transition between Romanesque and Gothic), its perfect architectural balance, its well-preserved gravestones... plus the remains of rich heritage on Rue Pablo Neruda and Maison Richelieu...
An urban walk, certainly, but well balanced thanks to the pleasant paths through the greenery.

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Kyla
Kyla

Overall rating : 3.7 / 5

Date of your route : May 31, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average

Thank you for this hike.

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oureq
oureq

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Apr 17, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A good little workout within easy reach of the underground. Buy a snack from one of the bakeries in old Bagneux and enjoy it a little further along the route, where there are some beautiful, relaxing parks.

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Anne_MBS
Anne_MBS

Overall rating : 4 / 5

Date of your route : Mar 04, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Thank you again for this hiking suggestion, and in particular the passage between the buildings that allows you to discover the wasteland, and this attempt to integrate nature and buildings to create a new urban landscape.
There are two elements in the description that I found confusing, but that's just me.
- Take the second left at the crossroads (point 2), which does not take into account a small road to cross (rather the third).
- "continue left along Place Dampierre", which I interpreted as going to Place Dampierre and walking along it on the left.
In the end, the accompanying map made it possible to understand these instructions.

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patapon64
patapon64

Overall rating : 3.7 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 14, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

An interesting discovery in old Bagneux. Please note the opening hours of Bagneux Cemetery, whose southern exit, through which the route passes, is closed due to metro construction work.

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RandoLuc
RandoLuc

That's another trip I'm planning for the end of May.
See you then!
RandoLuc

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marilor59
marilor59

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Mar 12, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average

The entire first part of the route is pleasant as it follows the green corridor and takes us to the heart of old Bagneux, but the part that descends to the cemetery is less so.

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marijo92
marijo92

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : May 24, 2016
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

For those of us who live in the southern suburbs of Paris, this walk allowed us to see Bagneux in a different light: green, peaceful, and with a church square that makes you feel like you're in the centre of a village. A very relaxing and enjoyable walk.

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