Monday, September 26, 2016

Chemin-de-Ronde, Voisons-le-Bretonneux, Paris, France

A veritable petit point for the St Quentin area, Chemin-de-Ronde (it simply means 'walkway') is the only IR I know of to have its own dedicated bus stop (!) although admittedly this might relate as much to the housing around the park space as it does to the park space itself. 

The housing outside it has an air of a mediaeval village. The Chemin-de-Ronde IR is an exercise in formality and regularity rarely seen in IR-dom. Each corner and half-way through each side, there is an entrance (I believe the north-west corner entrance might be blocked off; I wasn't going to run the risk of trespassing into someone's garden to find out). There are benches placed diagonally at each corner. As you can see below, there are rustic metal arches on the inner passageways mid-way at each boundary, and a formal entranceway on the outer. There are trees around the edge and some variation of fencing at the rear of property boundaries. Within all this, a huge, featureless and well-maintained open space. 
 The external passageway entrance midway from the east.
 The internal passageway entrance midway from the east.


 The entranceway, externally, from the north.
 Yes. A bus stop.

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