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Parks & Gardens in Paris
With over 400 parks and gardens, there's no doubt Paris is one of the greenest capitals in Europe, although it might not seem so when you're choking in the exhaust fumes on the Peripherique! The Jardin des Tuileries (16th C) and the Jardin du Luxembourg (17th C) are the oldest public gardens, but Napoleon III's enthusiasm for London's green spaces (he spent a long time there in exile before his recall) led to his incorporating several parks and many leafy squares into his 19th century revamp of Paris; fortunately this enthusiasm for greenery has been maintained in spite of the development pressures since.
So many gardens mean there's a tremendous variety for you to choose from, and they're all pretty easy to reach by public transport. The two biggest areas are the two "bois" (woods) on either side of Paris, the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes; next down in size come the "parcs" (parks), followed by the "jardins" (gardens) and finally the "squares" like the Square du Vert-Galant which have gardens in their centre rather than car parks (sadly, this cannot be said of squares in many other cities throughout Europe).
List of parks and gardens in Paris
Gardens
Jardin d'Acclimatation
Jardin de l'Arsenal
Jardin Atlantique
Jardins de l'avenue Foch
Pré Catelan
Jardin des Halles
Luxembourg Garden (Jardin du Luxembourg)
Jardin naturel
Palais Royal Garden (Jardin du Palais Royal)
Jardin des Plantes
Promenade plantée (former line of the Bastille)
Jardin du Ranelagh
Jardin des serres d'Auteuil
Jardin Shakespeare
Jardin Tino-Rossi
Trocadéro Garden (Jardin du Trocadéro)
Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries)
Jardin Villemin
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Parks
Arboretum de l'école du Breuil
Parc André Citroën
Parc de Bagatelle
Parc de Belleville
Parc de Bercy
Parc Georges Brassens
Parc de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Champ-de-Mars (Parc du Champ de Mars)
Parc de Choisy
Esplanade des Invalides
Parc Floral
Parc Kellermann
Parc Monceau
Parc Montsouris
Parc Sainte-Périne
Parc de la Villette
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