Serres d'Auteuil walks

This walk, which forms part of the GR® 75, allows you to explore a large number of parks situated on the outskirts of Paris’s western and southern ring roads. It serves as the final stage. There are many remarkable spots along the GR® route as well as in the surrounding area, such as the Bois de Boulogne. As you pass through the many parks, you’ll feel as though you’re far removed from the city.

An urban route in two stages. First, you stroll through the narrow streets of the Auteuil neighbourhood, which was for a long time a village outside Paris, encountering a variety of architecture. Then, after crossing the Seine on the famous Pont Mirabeau, you zigzag through Parc André Citroën, where plant, mineral and aquatic worlds intermingle.

A route in the city to discover the iconic architectural inventiveness of two successive artistic movements: Art Nouveau, from the late 19th to the early 20th century, and Art Deco, between the two world wars.

This section brings together a selection of relatively short routes that allow you to visit the 14 public cemeteries located within the city limits of Paris, one of which actually falls under the jurisdiction of the neighbouring municipality of Charenton-le-Pont. Varying in size, they are the final resting places of a varying number of notable figures. You will also find a wide variety of monument styles, depending on the simplicity or fame of those buried there and the financial means of their families.

From the Porte de Saint-Cloud to the Place du Trocadéro, from one work by the sculptor Paul Landowski to another, an urban walk exploring depictions of animals in Paris’s 16th arrondissement and several beautiful Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings.

The 1930s Trail was designed by the City of Boulogne-Billancourt. Discover a rich architectural heritage, thanks to the imagination of architects such as Le Corbusier, Courrèges, Mallet-Stevens and others. An original urban route that pays tribute to the creative movement of the interwar period.

We start by exploring Billancourt's industrial past on the former Renault factory sites, with a detour to the Ile Seguin. We then continue on to the Ile Saint-Germain, with its residential area and large green park. We end with a tribute to French cinema. This is an urban itinerary, but numerous parks and gardens, as well as many passageways, alleys and even footpaths, allow you to avoid the inconveniences of traffic.

From the Port de Javel, the banks of the Seine are not particularly suitable for a stroll… So you head away from the river to cross three large parks: André Citroën, Suzanne Lenglen and Île Saint-Germain. You then rejoin the towpath with its many moored barges. The walk ends with a brief detour into Saint-Cloud Park before crossing the Seine via the bridge of the same name.

For what will no doubt remain a long time to come, the names of Billancourt andÎleSeguin are associated with the Renault factories, which closed their doors in 1992. Boulogne-Billancourt’s industrial and working-class past is not limited to car manufacturing but also encompasses other sectors: laundries (to which we owe the fact that no railway line runs through the town), ice works, aeronautics, telecommunications equipment, cinema and the record industry… This urban walking tour, inspired by the brochure and information panels provided by the town’s Tourist Office, aims to retrace this working-class past. It also offers an opportunity to observe how the urban landscape of a town in the Petite Couronne of Paris has changed radically over the course of a few decades.

The municipality of Boulogne-Billancourt has commissioned an association to cover a wall approximately 200 metres long with murals. The main aim of this short urban walk is to admire these works of art, which may change over time. Before reaching them, you can see a few trompe-l’œil paintings indicating the direction of the city’s museums.