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Parks and gardens in Paris

The green spaces Parisians actually use, not only the ones on the postcards: botanical and rose gardens, neighbourhood parks, a lake with rowboats.

Last re-checked 20 Sep 2026 · all underground & cool → · full ledger →

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★ Jardin des Plantes€ · Botanical garden · 5eFrance's botanical garden, founded in 1626 as the royal medicinal beds and still run by the natural-history museum. The grounds are free: a long perspective of flowerbeds, an alpine garden, a rose garden, and a robinia planted in 1601, the oldest tree in Paris.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily ~7:30–20:00 summer, 8:00–17:30 winterAmong the oldestLong-running

5e · Latin Quarter (1)District guide →

★ Jardin des Plantes€ · Botanical gardenFrance's botanical garden, founded in 1626 as the royal medicinal beds and still run by the natural-history museum. The grounds are free: a long perspective of flowerbeds, an alpine garden, a rose garden, and a robinia planted in 1601, the oldest tree in Paris.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily ~7:30–20:00 summer, 8:00–17:30 winterAmong the oldestLong-running

12e · Bastille, Bercy & Aligre (1)District guide →

Bois de Vincennes — Lac Daumesnil€ · Lake & woodlandThe largest of the lakes in the Bois de Vincennes, with two wooded islands joined by bridges. On the Île de Reuilly a folly temple stands above an artificial grotto and waterfall, with a Tibetan temple and the Grande Pagode nearby in the trees.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Woodland continuous; boats daily 10:00–20:00 (Feb–Nov)

13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles (1)District guide →

Parc Kellermann€ · ParkThe largest park in the 13th, terraced into the line of the old Thiers fortifications with 1930s level changes and a formal French garden up top. A working neighbourhood park — football pitch, tennis, an outdoor fitness circuit — rather than a tourist stop.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily ~7:00 to dusk; summer to ~21:30

14e · Montparnasse & Denfert (1)District guide →

Parc Montsouris€ · ParkOne 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.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily ~7:00 to dusk; summer to ~21:30Long-running

15e · Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle (1)District guide →

Parc André-Citroën€ · ParkBuilt in the 1990s on the old Citroën factory site, a hard-edged garden of glasshouses, themed walled plots and a broad lawn sloping to the Seine. Computer-timed water jets cross a central terrace, and children stand in them all summer.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily; summer weekdays 7:00–21:30

16e · Trocadéro & Passy (1)District guide →

Parc de Bagatelle€ · Rose gardenAn English-style park inside the Bois de Boulogne, built around a château the Comte d'Artois put up in sixty-four days on a 1777 wager. The draw is the rose garden — some ten thousand bushes that peak in June — with waterfalls, grottoes and free-roaming peacocks.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily ~9:30–20:00 May–Aug, earlier off-season

19e · La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont (2)District guide →

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