Paris’s rewilded railway line: the disused track turned into a green space for wildlife and walkers | Paris holidays

A Silk in growth sends birds roaming over the trees and in the sky. I left alone and in complete silence and I look along the train paths that disappear in either direction. It seems as if I am in the heart of the countryside, but in reality, Perifierk Street, the traffic ring road that wins Paris, is just a throw of stone. This diligent diligent path, which is the small Ceinture, provides wildlife and quiet isolation just moments from the loud highway, thanks to a plan to shift parts of the line into green spaces that can be walking – a lesser alternative to trimming the French capital (and less central) Manhattan Higher Line Or northern London Park Land Wook, a restricted railway line part of the capital’s ring.

The last defensive wall was built in Paris, the last defensive wall in Paris, and the surrounding SHANTOWN devices, a street of eight lanes in Pervirick (known as Périph) by more than a million cars per day. The railway, which is 20 miles long (32 km), was created inside the ring road to supply the Thiers wall, carrying goods and then passengers as the first meterolian railway service in the city.

However, with the development of Métro that we know today, the popularity of La Peetite Ceinture decreased, with many of them removed. Along with the city of Paris, the owner of the line, SNCF Réseau (part of the state-owned railway company), worked on REGREEN 4.5 miles of path in small sections throughout the city since 2006-and at 2026 another 2.5 miles (the rest of the public cannot be reached).

Like the various defenses of the city, each section of the walking path has its own personality and was contacted differently. In some places, the paths, nature paths and common parks were created, while others were left to return. In Bel-Air residential on the twelfth, CEINTURE is quiet and well maintenance, with trees and green spaces on both sides. I walk along the railway tracks behind a elderly couple wandering in his arm, while a man raises the soil in the edge of the line. In the middle of the chest on the northern tributaries of the nineteenth, a man was sweeping a cup around the La Gare-L Gore entrance, a club at the old CEINture station hosting experimental jazz until midnight and techno until 6 am.

Ceinture is generally less polished than the high line in New York, but the most similar section – the most crowded and more amazing – is in the fifteenth circle, between Pont du Garigliano and Parc Georges Brassens. Here, I take the elevator to the line from the street level and walk next to writing on the elaborate walls next to the tunnel, along with the stadiums and club at the Vaugirad Tennis Club. I stop at Voie 15A modern restaurant, café and work space in a transformer building, full of young professionals on their own laptops, while running over the length of the tracks. Moreover, I even grab the view of the Eiffel Tower (higher) Eiffel is framed by residential buildings. One of the main targets in CEINTURE is to encourage wildlife on the city, with more or less “wild” areas. The venture section of Avenue du général leclerc and Rue Didot support in the fourteenth circle, with its high -tree towers, approximately 250 different species of plants and animals. In the winter, a colony of Pipistrell strikes inside the tunnel at the western end, along with the rest of CEINTURE, is swimming, it is an important homeland for the canals and foxes. In the spring and summer, the vegetation collects the paths and removing the trees with blocking the ends here to give the impression that you are wrapped in nature. At the age of sixteen, the line was seized by a strip of forests and 200 species of plants were registered here, including honey, Blackthorn, Gooseberries, Viburnum and Buddeia. Amid the parks that were carefully in Paris, it is a rare opportunity to get my shoes in the mud.

Many basics, projects and places that focus on society are flourishing on unparalleled Ceinture and abandoned infrastructure. I go to La RecyclerieIt is an urban farm and an environmental medium that focuses on repairs and recycling, which is very crowded in its extension by Porte de Clignancourt. The canteen in the old station building increases with people who are over lunch or have early keys. The pop -up market focuses on old clothes, and on the urban farm with an area of ​​1000 square meters (10700 square feet), volunteers tend to chicken. The events program displays everything from French refugee sessions to DIY courses. “In a very thick neighborhood with a few green spaces, it seems important to let nature restore its rights and help agriculture in the city,” says Marie Eugenie Changeldard, Director of the Cultural Project for Environmental Culture at La Recyclerie.

La Ferme du railThrough the modern channel, it is another urban farm that provides accommodation for students and deprived persons who re -enter the workforce. The high family connects the paths, and the population works on elegant balconies of vegetables and plants. When the product is harvested, travel meters away to the farm restaurant, Le Passage à niveau.

While moving in the last section of my vibrant Ménilmontant district, I think about La Peette Ceinture. In each region, he took a role – a place for people, a place for nature, a place for society. Some of the parts that I will return to, others will not do it, but it represents a brutal aspect of Paris, a world away from the nearby chaos of the capital.

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