Petite Ceinture du 12e arrondissement

The Petite Ceinture in the twelfth arrondissement is defined by a quiet, overgrown path that stretches over one kilometer between residential buildings, where rusting iron rails now rest beneath a canopy of spontaneous urban greenery. This stretch of the former Little Belt railway line was part of a thirty-two kilometer loop that once circled Paris, built during the Second Empire between eighteen fifty-two and eighteen sixty-nine to link the city's major train stations.