To cater for visitors attending the first Paris World Fair in 1867, a circular rail route was established for train travel around the capital. The Petite Ceinture – the Small Belt – is the former double-track railway line encircling Paris, which closed in 1934. The train tracks were never removed.
The Montrouge-Belt, part of the former railway network, situated in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, was abandoned for 74 years and rehabilitated in 2008. It is now Poinçon. Behind the Poinçon are stairs to the rail tracks.
Read the full article, with a downloadable list of access points to the walking tracks, on my Paris website, The Paris Residences of James Joyce, HERE.
See more Paris walking routes HERE.
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MARTINA NICOLLS is an international human rights-based consultant in education, healing and wellbeing, peace and stabilization, foreign aid audits and evaluations, and the author of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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