Paris - Bourges along the Green Meridian

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Region: Ile-de-France • Centre • Essonne • Loiret • Val-de-Marne
Linked groups: Geography • Méridienne Verte / Green Meridian
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Paris - Bourges along the Green Meridian

An alternative route from Paris to Bourges along the Green Meridian. It starts at the Observatory of Paris, the place where thé zero-meridien of the world was defined before Greenwich took that role. The route follow this meridian of Paris to Bourge.

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General difficulty level

General difficulty score: 60/100.

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Difficulty level in detail

Total ascent: 788 m
Difficulty level (relative): 6/10

Max. slope (base 500m): 8.85 %
Difficulty level (relative): 6/10

Length: 233 km
Difficulty level (relative): 7/10

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Observatoire de Paris (distance from start: 0.08 km/0.05 miles)

Observatoire de Paris
14ème Arrondissement Paris
The zero meridian was not always in Greenwich. For a long time, France and other countries used their own zero meridian, going through the Observatory of Paris. You can still see a line in the Cassini-room.

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La Closerie des Lilas (distance from start: 0.33 km/0.21 miles)

La Closerie des Lilas
6ème Arrondissement Paris
At the restaurant "La Closerie des Lilas" , writer Ernest Hemingway wrote parts of his first full-length novel "The Sun Also Rises".

The novel was semi-autobiographical, following a group of expatriate Americans around Paris and Spain.

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Cochin Saint-Vincent-de-Paul La Roche-Guyon (distance from start: 0.5 km/0.31 miles)

Cochin Saint-Vincent-de-Paul La Roche-Guyon
5ème Arrondissement Paris
Below the current location of Hospital Cochin Saint-Vincent-de-Paul La Roche-Guyon are underground corridors. These 13th century corridors are underground limestone quarries, used to get to building material. 30% of the limstone blocks of the Notre Dame come from these corridors below.

During the excavation, workers frequently got injured and killed due to collapsing corridors. They were taken care of in the hospital above, because there was already a hospital here in the Middle Ages.

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Boulevard de Port-Royal (distance from start: 0.5 km/0.31 miles)

Boulevard de Port-Royal
5ème Arrondissement Paris
Below the Boulevard de Port-Royal runs one of the many underground quarries of Paris, used to extract limestone. In these underground corridors, there is a sign of the Boulevard de Port-Royal so excavators could find their way back in the labyrinth.

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Place Denfert-Rochereau (distance from start: 1.35 km/0.84 miles)

Place Denfert-Rochereau
14ème Arrondissement Paris
Place Denfert-Rochereau is located above the Paris catacombes.

The Place is dominated by The Lion of Belfort statue (a copy of that in Belfort) and is also the location of the Paris Catacombs museum.


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l'Ossuaire Municipal (distance from start: 1.36 km/0.85 miles)

l'Ossuaire Municipal
14ème Arrondissement Paris
In the catacombes of Paris, there are about 6 million skeletons. That is 3 skeletons for each inhabitant of the city of Paris.

The catacombes are old corridors created from extracting limestone blocks. In the 18th century, there was serious submergence due to collapsing of these corridors.

The main graveyard of Paris, Cimetière des Innocents, got seriously overcrowded in the 18th century. All of the bodies of Cimetière des Innocents were exhumed and put in these corridors to support them.



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Bridge of the Loire in Sully-sur-Loire (distance from start: 147.65 km/91.75 miles)

Bridge of the Loire in Sully-sur-Loire
Sully-sur-Loire
The Pont de Sully-sur-Loire supports the road D 948 which connects the towns of Sully-sur-Loire and Saint-Père-sur-Loire. This bridge replaced a suspension bridge that collapsed in 1985. It is located in the Loire Valley; classfied as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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Castle of Sully-sur-Loire (distance from start: 148.05 km/91.99 miles)

Castle of Sully-sur-Loire
Sully-sur-Loire
The castle was built in Renaissance style and is the main site of the city.

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Cathedral of Saint-Étienne de Bourges (distance from start: 232.82 km/144.66 miles)

Cathedral of Saint-Étienne de Bourges
Bourges
Bourges Cathedral retains most of its original ambulatory glass, which dates from about 1215. Bourges Cathedral is notable for the simplicity of its plan. The flying buttresses surrounding the cathedral are relatively slender and efficient, particularly compared to the contemporary but much heavier flyers at Chartres. Their steep angle helps to channel the thrust from the nave vaults and the wind loading on the roof to the outer buttress piers more effectively. The cathedral of Bourges was added to the list of the World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1992.

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  1. Logis L'auberge De Combreux
  2. Hotel De La Croix Rouge
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  1. Aquaboulevard
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