Philippe Gloaguen, co-founder of the Guide du routard, returns to Europe 1 on its drafted version of the guide around the suburbs of Paris. One way, still relevant with the health crisis linked to the coronavirus, to discover the Ile-de-France in an unusual way.

It's not just Paris in Île-de-France. To change your ideas and discover unusual or cool places, you don't have to go far if you live in the capital. The suburbs are full of nuggets and ideas for walks, as Philippe Gloaguen, co-founder of the Guide du routard au micro de Matthieu Noël said on Wednesday in L'Équipée sauvage on Europe 1.

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"Despite the sometimes rather negative image of the suburbs, it turns out that there are absolutely splendid and yet forgotten places", underlines Philippe Gloaguen, who wanted to restore the letters of nobility to the suburbs by publishing in 2003 the guide "Banlieues from Paris". The latter have a rich heritage thanks to the Middle Ages, since certain cities around Paris remain the guardians of the vestiges of the time.

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Nobody goes there and it's a shame because there is a real culture of the suburbs

"The whole market garden belt of Paris is a little forgotten with the move of Les Halles to the center of Paris, which once played a lot on small producers. The peaches grew specifically in Montreuil for example, the watercress in Méréville", he enumerates . A legacy stemming from a particular invention of gardeners of the time: "For peaches, they planted the roots in the shade, but on the other hand the tree, the peach tree, was in the sun. These little walls in Montreuil peach trees still exist and can be visited, "recalls the writer, invited on the occasion of the release of his new book Voyages France .

In Issy-les-Moulineaux, change of scenery. It is the museum of the playing card that Philippe Gloaguen invites to discover. "Nobody goes there and it's a shame because there is a real culture of the suburbs," he laments. The cards are now in your hands.