Paris (France) today has more than 421 municipal parks and gardens, covering more than 3,000 hectares and containing more than 250,000 trees. Two of Paris’s oldest and most famous gardens are the Tuileries Garden (created in 1564 for the Tuileries Palace and redone by André Le Nôtre between 1664 and 1672) and the Luxembourg Garden, for the Luxembourg Palace, built for Marie de’ Medici in 1612, which today houses the Senate. The Jardin des plantes was the first botanical garden in Paris, created in 1626.
Between 1853 and 1870, Emperor Napoleon III and the city’s first director of parks and gardens, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, created the Bois de Boulogne, Bois de Vincennes, Parc Montsouris and Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, located at the four points of the compass around the city, as well as many smaller parks, squares and gardens in the Paris’s quarters.
Since 1977, the city has created 166 new parks, most notably the Parc de la Villette (1987), Parc André Citroën (1992), Parc de Bercy (1997) and Parc Clichy-Batignolles (2007). One of the newest parks, the Promenade des Berges de la Seine (2013), built on a former highway on the left bank of the Seine between the Pont de l’Alma and the Musée d’Orsay, has floating gardens.
Parks and gardens of Paris. TOP 7 (in alphabetical order)
Boulogne wood (16th arrondissement)
Garden of the Plants (5th arrondissement)
Luxembourg Garden (6th arrondissement)
Palais-Royal garden (1st arrondissement)
Parc de la Villette (19th arrondissement)
Ranelagh garden (16th arrondissement)
Tuileries Garden (1st arrondissement)
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