Underground & cool · Railway walk · € · 15e · Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle
Petite Ceinture du 15e
A green ribbon of abandoned 19th-century railway reclaimed as a wild-nature walk through cuttings and a 300-metre tunnel — quiet, and almost untouristed. A 2025 extension lengthened it.
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Enter at Place Balard or via Parc Georges Brassens; daylight hours only.
Getting there
- Balard860 m · 1 min walk
- Lourmel8330 m · 6 min walk
- Pont du Garigliano - Hôpital Européen G. PompidouRER C660 m · 12 min walk
Where to stay near Petite Ceinture du 15e
- Hotel Ohm by HappyCultureHotel€€ · 22 minFifty-one rooms in the quiet residential far corner of the 16th near Parc des Princes and Roland-Garros, done in a contemporary-vintage mix with espresso machines in the rooms. Off the centre, and priced for it.
- 3 Ducks HostelSocial hostel€ · 24 minA long-running 15th-arrondissement hostel, since gutted and rebuilt, with a bar and a small courtyard on a church square a walk from both Montparnasse and the Eiffel Tower. Open round the clock.
- Molitor Paris MGalleryArt Deco pool hotel€€€ · 32 minThe resurrected 1929 lido at the western edge of the 16th, its two restored pools ringed by guest-room balconies that look down onto the water. A summer rooftop adds the Eiffel Tower.
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The district · 15e
Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle — Residential ParisThe most populous arrondissement and the least touristed — market streets like Rue du Commerce, the riverside Parc André-Citroën with its balloon, and the green ribbon of the Petite Ceinture.
Best for: Budget and family stays that want quiet and space over a central postcode.
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