Paris for Vacation

Parks and gardens in Paris

Parks

• Arboretum de l'école du Breuil
• Parc André Citroën
• Parc de Bagatelle
• Parc de Belleville
• Parc de Bercy
• Parc Georges Brassens
• Parc de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge
• Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
• Champ-de-Mars (few minutes away by foot from the flat at Http://www.parisforvacation.com
• Parc de Choisy
• Esplanade des Invalides
• Parc Floral
• Parc Kellermann
• Parc Monceau
• Parc Montsouris
• Parc Sainte-Périne
• Parc de la Villette

Gardens

• Jardin d'Acclimatation
• Jardin de l'Arsenal
• Jardin Atlantique
• Jardins de l'avenue Foch
• Pré Catelan
• Jardin des Halles
• Luxembourg Garden 
• Jardin naturel
• Palais Royal Garden 
• Jardin des Plantes
• Promenade plantée
  
• Jardin du Ranelagh
• Jardin des serres d'Auteuil
• Jardin Shakespeare
• Jardin Tino-Rossi
• Trocadéro Garden
  
  • few steps from the flat at Http://www.parisforvacation.com
• Tuileries Garden 
• Jardin Villemin

Two of Paris's oldest and famous gardens are the Tuileries Garden, created from the 16th century for a palace on the banks of the Seine near the Louvre, and the Left bank Luxembourg Garden, another formerly private garden belonging to a château built for the Marie de' Medici in 1612. The Jardin des Plantes , created by Louis XIII's doctor Guy de La Brosse for the cultivation of medicinal plants, was Paris' first public garden.

A few of Paris' other large gardens are Second Empire creations: the formerly suburban parks of Montsouris, Buttes Chaumont and Parc Monceau (formerly known as the "folie de Chartres"), were creations of Napoleon III's engineer Jean-Charles Alphand and the landscape . Another project executed under the orders of Baron Haussmann

architect Barillet-Deschamps was the re-sculpting of Paris' western Bois de Boulogne forest-parklands; the Bois de Vincennes, to Paris' opposite eastern end, received a similar treatment in years following.

posted by Paris for Vacation @ 4:13 PM