Buttes-Chaumont: the secret hill and the cliff park
A hidden hill-village with its own vineyard, then the cliff, the temple and the suspension bridge below. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Butte-Bergeyre
A handful of streets on a hill almost nobody finds — climb the steps from Bolivar and you're in a village of 1920s houses and gardens, with no through traffic. Walk it slowly; the whole place is about five streets.

2. Vigne de la Butte Bergeyre
A small working vineyard on the slope, a few rows of vines kept by the city. Improbable and quiet; the harvest is a neighbourhood affair. Stand at the railing rather than going in.

3. Rue Georges Lardennois viewpoint
The reason to climb the Butte: a sudden gap in the houses frames Sacré-Cœur floating on its own hill to the west. Best in the morning with the light behind you.

4. Temple de la Sibylle
Down into the park: a miniature Roman temple on a cliff-top island in the lake, copied from Tivoli. Walk out to it across the bridges; the drop on the far side is real.

5. Passerelle suspendue
The suspension footbridge Gustave Eiffel's office had a hand in, slung across the gorge to the temple island. It bounces a little. That's part of it.

6. Grotte et cascade
The grotto under the cliff, with a 20-metre artificial waterfall and fake stalactites — a 19th-century idea of the sublime, built over a former gypsum quarry. Cool and loud inside on a hot day.

Buttes-Chaumont: the secret hill and the cliff park