Viaduc des Artes:  Finding a new garden in Paris

I think that the Professor likes to surprise me.  I was very surprised when I saw our destination today.  He told me that we were getting off the Metro at Bastille, but I never suspected that we were heading for a garden.  

The New Paris Opera House

Needless to say that there is no trace of a prison left at Bastille.
Instead there is this tall monument in the middle of a busy traffic circle.

The park that the Professor took me to was at one time railroad tracks.
It is now a raised garden that covers about 4.5 kilometers.
What a great surprise.

Climbing roses on the trellis

Instead of being a raised park, the path gradually descended so that there were
walls on either side of the garden which was once a railroad.

We walked beside the Jardin des Plantes and past the Museum of Natural History.

Past the mosque to a small couscous place that we saw the other day.
We had lunch  at the Boulangerie la Fourche.
Sounds unlikely doesn't it?  Apparently the two business are run together.