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The garden of the Japanese pavilion in the Parc Floral de Paris. The largest new garden created in Paris in the second part of the 20th century was the Parc floral de Paris, covering 31 hectares (77 acres), which was built within the Bois de Vincennes in 1969. In 1959 and 1964 that park had been the site of a large international flower show ...
The Tuileries Garden (French: Jardin des Tuileries, IPA: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de tɥilʁi]) is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Created by Catherine de' Medici as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was opened to the public in 1667 and became a public park after the ...
The Jardin du Luxembourg seen from Montparnasse Tower The Luxembourg Palace and the Grand Bassin. The Jardin du Luxembourg (French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]), known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Gardens of the Château de Villandry View of the Diane de Poitiers' garden at the Château de Chenonceau Medici Fountain in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. Gardens of the French Renaissance were initially inspired by the Italian Renaissance garden, which evolved later into the grander and more formal jardin à la française during the reign of Louis XIV, by the middle of the 17th century.
The gardens were originally designed in 1667 by André Le Notre as an extension of the Jardin des Tuileries, the gardens of the Tuileries Palace. Le Notre planned a wide promenade between the palace and the modern Rond Point, lined with two rows of elm trees on either side, and flowerbeds in the symmetrical style of the French formal garden.
Map of green spaces in Paris. Paris today has more than 421 municipal parks and gardens, covering more than three thousand hectares and containing more than 250,000 trees. [1] [verification needed] The following is a partial list of public parks and gardens in the city.
An Alpine garden has 3,000 species with world-wide representation. Specialized buildings, such as a large Art Deco winter garden, and Mexican and Australian hothouses display regional plants, not native to France. The Rose Garden, created in 1990, has hundreds of species of roses and rose trees. [citation needed] Jardin des plantes de Paris
The Bois de Vincennes, on the eastern edge of the city, is the largest park in Paris. The Bois de Vincennes has a total area of 995 hectares [2] (2,459 acres), making it slightly larger than the Bois de Boulogne, (846 hectares / 2,091 acres), the other great Parisian landscape park located at the western side of the city. [3]