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Starting point and access: Le Bourget station.
- RER – Line B.
Take the Rue de la Station exit on the platform 2 side (if arriving on platform 1, use the underpass).
The route crosses or follows severalPR® trails marked in yellow. Where aPR® trail is followed for a long, continuous stretch, the markings are mentioned in the subheading. Where the trail is followed intermittently, the markings are only mentioned in the description where necessary.
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(S) At the end of the exit corridor, turn left, cross Rue de la Station at the pedestrian crossing and follow a concrete path alongside a football stadium. At the end, turn left into Rue des Cheminots. At the next junction, turn right into Rue Pierre Sémard (Yellow Cross).
At the end, turn left into Rue des Colibris, between blocks of flats and detached houses. Cross Rue Gasset on the right-hand side and stay on Rue des Colibris, which turns left. At the end, turn right into Rue Emmanuel Vinson (yellow marker).
(1) At the T-junction, turn left into Rue de la République. Follow this street straight on, passing Rue Édouard Vaillant, Rue Gambetta, Rue Rouget de L’Isle, Rue François Rude and Rue Lamartine in turn.
At the Stop sign, turn left and immediately ignore Rue des Lilas on your right. Continue along Rue de la République until you reach a junction (with the Laura Flessel Gymnasium opposite).
Yellow markings
(2) Carry on straight ahead into Rue de Prague. Walk past the Aimé Césaire school complex on your left and ignore two turnings on the right. At the end of the building, turn right into Allée des Quatre-Vingt. Turn left immediately (Rue Adrien Froment) and you’ll come out onto Rue Sadi Carnot (with the cultural centre opposite).
Cross the road at the traffic lights and follow the road to the right. Walk past a car park and, at the far end, turn left onto Rue Thibault. At the end (narrow path opposite), turn right into a one-way street and you’ll reach the gate to Parc de Ladoucette.
(3) Enter the park via a zigzag path. Leave the signposted route briefly and head straight on along a cobbled path towards the château. At the foot of the château, turn left. Pass a merry-go-round on your left, turn right, passing a playground on your left, and rejoin the signposted route.
Carry on straight ahead, skirting a lawn (note the mausoleum on the right). Then pass between an educational farm and a pond. When you reach a footbridge on the right, continue along the edge of the pond. At the three-way junction that follows (picnic table), turn left. At the next junction, go straight ahead to reach the park exit.
Then follow Rue Sadi Carnot to the left. At the foot of the brick church, turn right to cross the road at the traffic lights. Continue straight ahead into Rue Charles de Gaulle. Note a small garden on the right with a bust of Jean Jaurès, followed by Drancy Town Hall. After passing a statue of General de Gaulle, turn left onto Rue de la Haute Borne, which curves gently.
At the end, cross Rue Sadi Carnot again and follow it to the right. At the next junction, note the statue opposite paying tribute to the victims of slavery, then turn left onto Rue Roger Petieu. Continue straight on until you reach the entrance to Drancy Cemetery.
No signposting (except at the very start)
(4) Then turn right onto Rue Sacco et Vanzetti (yellow arrow). At the junction, continue straight on into Rue Gaston Landry. Carry on straight ahead, passing Avenue Pierre et Marie Curie and Avenue Giuseppe Garibaldi in turn.
Then turn right into Rue Henri Longatte. At the end, turn left onto Avenue Jean Jaurès. Cross Avenue Henri Barbusse, continue straight on, walk past the Pablo Picasso school complex and you will reach the Drancy Internment Camp Memorial.
(5) To reach the exhibition carriage on the left, walk round the monument and pass between two hedges. Retrace your steps.
(5) Continue along Avenue Jean Jaurès and ignore a yellow arrow sign indicating a left turn. Cross Rue Arthur Fontaine on the left-hand side and take the next left onto Avenue de la Muette. Then turn right onto Avenue Saint-Fargeau. Continue straight on until you reach the entrance gate to Notre-Dame-de-Liesse Church.
Go through the gate and across a small car park (if the gate is closed, see an alternative route in the practical information). At the end of the car park, go down a flight of steps on the left. Then turn right, go up a flight of stairs and exit onto the street through a small gate. Follow the street to the right until you reach Avenue Jean Jaurès.
Then turn left twice to join Rue Honoré de Balzac. This street immediately turns right. At the next junction, turn left onto Rue Jules Guesde. At the following junction, turn right onto Rue de l’Aviation. At the fork in the road, continue straight ahead. At the end of the street, turn left onto Avenue de la Jumelle.
(6) At the end (with a large cedar tree opposite), turn right onto Rue des Travailleurs. At the next junction, turn right again onto Avenue de la Concorde. At the next junction, turn left onto Avenue Pradier. At the Stop sign, continue straight on along Avenue de Vauquois.
Pass Rue d’Amsterdam on your left, continue straight on along Rue de la Grande Denise and enter Bobigny. At the next junction, turn right onto Rue Henri Clausse. Pass Rue du Luxembourg on your right and go under a building with pink render.
No signposting
Immediately afterwards, turn right onto a tarmac path that winds alongside the pink-plastered building (leaving the colourful tower blocks on your left). At the end, at a bus stop, first turn right then left to cross Avenue Édouard Vaillant at the traffic lights. Then take Rue Auguste Delaune towards the centre of the same name (yellow marker).
At the fork in the road, turn right onto Rue des Sablons. At the end, turn right onto Rue des Paquerettes. After a left-hand bend, the street becomes Rue Eugène Pottier. Continue straight on and cross Rue de l’Internationale.
(7) At the next junction, turn right onto Rue des Fleurs. At the following junction, take Rue des Huats directly opposite, slightly to the right. At the end of the street, turn left onto Rue de la Madeleine.
At the crossroads, cross the road and turn right into an open park. Follow a tarmac path running parallel to the Promenade Jean Rostand. After about twenty metres, cross the lawn diagonally to the right, taking a gravel path. Then follow the road to the left.
At the Stop sign, turn right into Rue Claude Bernard. You’ll pass Rue Jacques Chaban-Delmas on your left. At the end of the street (opposite, a house with striking red render and a turret), turn left into Rue René Camier (signposted further on).
(8) At the end, cross a street (Rue Marguerite Yourcenar on the map) and head straight ahead onto a concrete path between a car park on the left and a tower block on the right. At the corner by the tower, turn right, climb two flights of stairs and you’ll find yourself facing a brasserie. Then climb another flight of stairs on the left and walk between the CCI-93 on your left and the brasserie on your right.
At the top, take the footbridge over Rue Germaine Tailleferre, which leads out in front of the entrance to the Bobigny District Court (on the right). Then turn left and take the footbridge with blue railings that crosses Avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier.
At the end of this long footbridge, continue straight ahead between the buildings of the Seine-Saint-Denis Departmental Council. At a T-junction, turn right, take another footbridge and head towards the post office. Look for a flight of stairs on the right at the end of the post office building. Go down these stairs. At the bottom, turn right, cross the bus park and find the entrance to the Metro or, a little further on, the entrance to the Tram, Bobigny – Pablo Picasso station (E).
To get back home:
- Metro – Line 5, towards Place d’Italie.
- Tram – Line T1, towards Asnières-Gennevilliers or Noisy-le-Sec.
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