THIS INDUSTRIAL MONUMENT OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY IS A NEIGHBOROOD SYMBOL...
...that provides space for exhibits and performances and a walkway waiting to be put to use:
- Paintings can hang from the ribbon of steel under the rails:
Les Intruses ("The Female Intruders"), by the photographer Randa Marufi for the Institute of Islamic Cultures, 2020 / zoom
- It overlooks a painted path that is adapted to skateboarding, bicycling, training, performances and exhibits:
The Compagnie Gaby Sourire and Faun Arts,
Installation by Ange et Dam
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An "urban promenade" uniting the Barbès, La Chapelle and Stalingrad stops was planned in 2019...
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Map obtained through the link above |
1.28 kilometers
But covid and a press that called it "the great waste, a "court of miracles, requisitioned by peddlers, delinquents and migrants," led to abandoning it.
