Grenoble · Self-guided audio walk

Berriat and the Saint-Bruno Market

A market, a church of molded cement, two murals on an old factory, and an Eiffel hall full of contemporary art: Grenoble's old factory quarter on a morning when the stalls are still up.

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1.2 kmDistance
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Berriat is the quarter west of Grenoble's old center where the city made things: penstocks, the steel pipes that feed hydroelectric turbines. This walk crosses it on a market morning, starting at the Saint-Bruno market on place Saint-Bruno, where the stalls fill the square in front of a church built entirely of molded cement.

From there the route follows cours Berriat west, past two Street Art Fest murals painted onto an 1875 factory site, then on to the Bouchayer-Viallet site and Le Magasin, a national contemporary art center inside a hall that Gustave Eiffel's workshops built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900.

It's under an hour of walking and listening, and it works best in the morning: the market packs up at one in the afternoon, or half past one at weekends, and Le Magasin opens at eleven.

The market is shut on Mondays and Le Magasin on Mondays and Tuesdays, so the full walk runs Wednesday to Sunday. Le Magasin costs five euros and is free on the first Sunday of every month.

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Marché Saint-Bruno

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Market stalls, cut-price clothes and a church cast in cement.

You're standing in the middle of the Saint-Bruno market, and it's worth knowing how this square runs. From Tuesday to Sunday the stalls are up from seven in the morning until one in the afternoon, and half past one at weekends. On Mondays the stalls vanish, and the art center at the end of this walk is shut on Mondays and Tuesdays. Behind the produce, the same rows carry discount clothes, linen and household goods, which is what makes this feel like a neighborhood market instead of a display.

Now turn to the church. Église Saint-Bruno was paid for by the Carthusian monks and built from 1869 to 1878 to a design by Alphonse Durand. It was the first church built entirely of molded cement, and that changes what you look at: the arches, the columns and the ornament were cast in molds, not carved. Fast and cheap, for a district of factory hands.

If the doors are open, step in: the tourist office points to paintings by the Grenoble artist Jules Flandrin inside. The people who filled this square worked in the metal trades, and it's their quarter you're about to walk.

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≈7 min walk to the next stop

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ARaymond building

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An 1875 factory site whose walls carry two 2017 murals.

Start with the two paintings on this wall, because they arrived in the same year. In 2017 the Street Art Fest came to cours Berriat and left 'Notre-Dame de Grâce II' by A'Shop, a crew from Montreal, and 'La Courbe' by Monkey Bird. Both sit on the frontage of the ARaymond works, and that's the detail worth keeping: ARaymond, a Grenoble fastener maker founded in 1865, has been on this site since 1875; production has moved away, but its offices are still here, and the company lends its walls to painters. Now step back and take in the street.

Cours Berriat was laid out in the nineteenth century as the spine of a working quarter. The works along it made penstocks, the steel pipes that drop water onto turbines in hydroelectric plants. The tram line now runs down the middle of the road the workers walked, and most of the factories that gave this street its shape are gone. This one's owners stayed, and more festival walls run along the frontage between numbers 111 and 129.

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Neo Musty mural

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A Grenoble painter's portrait on a residential street corner.

Number 144 is the corner with rue Amédée Morel, and the portrait on the side wall is by Neo Musty, a painter who arrived in Grenoble by chance and stayed for the art scene. He was born in Morocco and came to France at three. He trained as a chemist before he started painting, and this wall shows a large face ringed by creatures he invented, on the flank of a block of flats, easy to miss from a passing tram. Stand on the opposite pavement to see the whole wall.

Look both ways along cours Berriat and count the painted walls. Some came from the festival, and some were put up by people who live here and found a blank surface at the end of their own street. The quarter spent a century turning out steel for power stations. Now it turns out images, and this one is free to look at from the pavement.

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≈6 min walk to the next stop

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Le Magasin

Eiffel-built 1900 hall, now a national art center.

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Good to know

Before you go

When is the Saint-Bruno market held?

The Saint-Bruno market runs Tuesday to Sunday, 7:00 to 13:00, with weekend mornings going until 13:30. It closes on Mondays, so plan this walk for a market morning.

SourceGrenoble Tourisme, marché Saint-Bruno

What does Le Magasin cost, and when is it open?

Le Magasin opens Wednesday to Sunday, 11:00 to 19:00. Entry is €5, €3 reduced, and free on the first Sunday of the month; it closes on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December.

SourceLe Magasin CNAC

Can I do the Berriat walk on a Monday?

No: the market is shut on Mondays and Le Magasin rests on Mondays and Tuesdays. The walk needs a Wednesday to Sunday, and it is best in the morning while the stalls are up.

SourceGrenoble Tourisme, marché Saint-BrunoLe Magasin CNAC

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