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Park on Chemin des Fonts, near the Sainte-Foy Tennis Club.
(S/E) With the tennis courts on your right, walk down Chemin des Fonts to the Chemin des Prés roundabout. Go around the roundabout on the left, using the pedestrian crossings.
(1) Turn left onto Chemin des Sources. Cross the stream via a small footbridge and continue left along this path.
(2) Ignore the wooden staircase on the left, which you will use later, and continue straight ahead.
(3) Leave Chemin des Sources by turning right and a little further up you will find the first staircase on our route. It is also the oldest, dating back to the time when these slopes were used for wine growing. Then follow the path that winds up the slope until you reach Chemin des Sources again. Go down it again, turning right.
(2) Go up the steps on the left, cross the Chemin des Hauts du Bois and then the Chemin des Razes using the protected crossings, and find a balcony path that allows you to follow the valley along its left bank this time. Take a small staircase on the left, then turn right at the fork. Follow the path to a building. Turn left to the foot of the third staircase.
(4) Climb these steps and then follow the path. At the next fork, take the path on the right and follow it to pass behind the Sainte-Foy pagoda. Continue to a small staircase, which you will need to descend this time. Turn right, then left about twenty metres further on and follow the main path to the community gardens.
Cross a cluster of trees, then turn right to pass through the middle of the gardens and follow a vague path that descends towards the woods.
(5) Turn right at a 90° angle, then left at the next fork. Follow the path to the Gier aqueduct, turn right and walk along the aqueduct to the footbridge that crosses the Yzeron.
(6) Cross the river and turn left onto the new footpath that runs alongside the Yzeron.
Leave the path to cross Avenue de l'Aqueduc de Beaunant and follow Rue de Merlo opposite until you reach the entrance to Yzeron Park. Enter the park and follow the path that crosses it, staying roughly halfway up. Leave the park by crossing the Yzeron again and you will reach Boulevard Émile Zola.
(7) Cross this boulevard to go up Rue des Bottières, enter the City Aventure car park and then exit via a few steps. Enter the second car park and take the wooden steps of the4th staircase. Continue climbing until you reach the foot of the5th staircase. Note: this passage through City Aventure is authorised and free of charge (thankfully!).
(8) Go up this staircase, then follow the path straight ahead until you reach Chemin des Balmes. Turn right, keep left at the next crossroads, then turn right onto Chemin de Montraÿ. Follow it for about 1 km. Turn right into Rue du Neyrard and follow it tothe 6th and last staircase on the left, called Montée de la Chapelle.
(9) Take these steps, pass in front of the Télégraphe tower and the Chapelle Sainte-Marguerite chapel, then turn immediately right. Continue along Rue Parmentier, turn left onto Rue du Vingtain to reach the Place des Quatre Vierges roundabout. Turn right onto Rue Joseph Ricard until you reach the entrance to Mont Riant park on the left.
(10) Enter the park and follow the path to its exit just above the tennis club. Join Chemin des Fonts and the car park (S/E).
) and discover the treasures of the city centre. However, the description of the stairs crossing City Adventure Park left us perplexed, as did some of the junctions: luckily, there was the route map 
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