Promenade plantée

Our Wednesday afternoon constitutional took us from our apartment to Pere Lachaise, then to the Place de la Bastille and then along the Promenade Plantee to Boulevard Diderot, then back to Place de la Nation, and finally back home. The new part of this, for us, was the Promenade Plantee, in the 12th, a beautifully-landscaped elevated path along a no-longer-used railway. Smack in the middle of the city. The Promenade goes on for nearly 5k, from the Bastille to the Parc Vincennes on the eastern periphery. It is wonderfully free of traffic and tourists, except us, and has some great urban views.