Petite Ceinture du 13e arrondissement

The Petite Ceinture in the thirteenth arrondissement appears as a quiet, green walkway cutting through the urban landscape, defined by rusted tracks still embedded in the ground and paths flanked by wild vegetation. This stretch is part of a thirty-two-kilometer circular railway line built between eighteen fifty-two and eighteen sixty-nine to connect Paris’s major train stations. While it once carried passengers and freight around the city, the rise of the Métro led to the end of passenger service in nineteen thirty-four, leaving the tracks to fall into decades of abandonment.