La Petite Ceinture du 19ᶱ (accès Gaston Tessier / Curial)

The Petite Ceinture is a winding, abandoned railway line that once formed a thirty-two kilometer ring around Paris. You can identify this specific section in the nineteenth arrondissement by the elevated tracks that lift you above the city, offering a vantage point over the neighboring apartment blocks and remaining industrial ruins. Built between eighteen fifty-two and eighteen sixty-nine under Napoleon the Third, the railway was originally designed to connect the major train stations of Paris and serve the city's defensive fortifications.