walking time/ distance

I love walking all over Paris and did this walk once or twice, but it is quite a distance. If it is not rush hour I tend to prefer the bus. I know it takes longer, but unless I am in a hurry it gives me a better sense of the city I am in rather than emerging from below ground. You do need lots of energy to walk that city:))

Christine, I'm sure Ed could walk it in 45 mins. Myself, I would give it a bit longer (probably over an hour). But in either case I wouldn't bother, take the metro.

Forty-five minutes easy. But the middle segment is boring. That's one of the ones I'd save for the metro.

Thanks so much for very useful response. I've asked several people and never got a straight answer.

Okay. More precisely, it's well less than three miles with the first fourth steeply downhill and the middle third slightly downhill. A marching band covers 300 feet per minute or a mile every seventeen and a bit. If it were the full three miles that's fifty-three minutes. Without measured thirty-inch paces people walk faster downhill. It's still not the most interesting walk in the city.

I walked it in the reverse, and the uphill was definitely steep, but a number of photo opportunities if one turned around and looked downhill... plus it made for a few nice rest spots to catch my breath.

a great resource for this type of question is the website Mappy.com. There's an English option. You enter start and stop points, select walking (or driving, or public transit), and it will tell you distance and map the route.