Parc de Buttes-Chaumont
Fabulous Paris views from a Romantic-era park
Great city vistas from the faux temple in Baron Haussmann's 19th century, Romantic-era park—the largest of Paris's 426 gardens.
Formerly vast gypsum quarries (perhaps you've heard of this product, still known as "plaster of Paris?"), the mines shut down in the 1860s and were landscaped into the Romantic ideal of a park—sort of French formal meets Anglo-Chinese fantasy.
The result is straight out of a Fragonard or Rousseau painting, with fantastical elements like the temple to Sybil (reproducing one at Tivoli near Rome) on an island in the 1.5-hectare lake, or the a (man-made) waterfall spilling down to a (faux) cave filled with 8-meter (26-foot) stalctites
Tips
- Planning your time: It's a park. Stick around for as long as you need to relax and recharge.
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This article was last updated in February 2012. All information was accurate at the time.
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1 rue Botzaris/rue Manin/rue de Crimée
(19eme)
parcsetjardins.equipement.paris.fr
OPEN
Daily 7am–8pm
ADMISSION
Free
TRANSPORT
Métro: Buttes-Chaumont (7bis)
