Coulée Verte René-Dumont
Elevated linear park threading above the rooftops on a disused nineteenth-century railway viaduct.
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This guide to the Coulée Verte René-Dumont in Paris traces the old Vincennes railway line, silent since 1969 and boarded up for two decades before the city planted a garden on top of it in 1993. Below, in the reopened stone arches, a former Hermès craftsman named Serge Amoruso hand-stitches leather bags in view of passersby on the street. Climb the iron staircase and you're suddenly at second-floor height, moving past rose gardens, bamboo groves, and Haussmann apartment windows. Best walked slowly, watching both the plantings above and the workshops below.
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