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Gardens of the Palace of Versailles, Île-de-France (Parterre du Midi) Gardens of the Château de Villandry, Indre-et-Loire (Salon de Musique) Manoir of Eyrignac, Dordogne Gardens of the Château de Vendeuvre, Calvados Claude Monet's house and garden in Giverny Gardens of the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Alpes-Maritimes Château de la Napoule, Alpes-Maritimes Parc du Mugel, La Ciotat, Bouches ...
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.
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. The creation of the garden began in 1612 when Marie de' Medici, the widow of King Henry IV, constructed ...
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 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 ...
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.
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
Temple de l'Amour created for Marie Antoinette and the Jardin de la Reine at Versailles Marie Antoinette's idyllic Hameau de la Reine at Versailles. The French landscape garden (French: jardin anglais, jardin à l'anglaise, jardin paysager, jardin pittoresque, jardin anglo-chinois) [1] is a style of garden inspired by idealized romantic landscapes and the paintings of Hubert Robert, Claude ...