Underground & cool · Park · € · 14e · Montparnasse & Denfert
Parc Montsouris
One of the four big English-style parks Alphand laid out under the Second Empire, opened in 1869 across some fifteen hilly hectares on the Left Bank. Rolling lawns built for picnics, a large artificial lake, mature exotic trees, and a quieter crowd than the central gardens.
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Borders the Cité Universitaire; RER B to Cité Universitaire drops you across Boulevard Jourdan. The slope toward the lake is the picnic ground.
Getting there
- Cité universitaireRER B350 m · 7 min walk
- Glacière6820 m · 15 min walk
Where to stay near Parc Montsouris
- Hôtel B55 Wine & SpaBoutique hotel & spa€€ · 5 minA four-star on a residential street between the Butte-aux-Cailles and Parc Montsouris, built around a wine-and-spa conceit: a tasting cellar below, treatment rooms attached, and a quiet quarter of low houses outside.
- ibis Styles Paris Place d'ItalieDesign budget hotel€ · 13 minThe chain's design arm let a street-art brief loose here: frescoes of Paris landmarks on every floor, Corvisart and its viaduct-arch métro three minutes down the hill. Breakfast is built into the rate.
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The district · 14e
Montparnasse & Denfert — The other Left BankThe Lost Generation's Montparnasse brasseries, the Catacombs, Parc Montsouris, and crêperies clustered by the station. Quietly residential, with a literary past it wears lightly.
Best for: Calm-seekers who still want the Left Bank and good train links.
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