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Gardens and squares

Four very different pieces of green, from formal parterre to English folly.

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Parc Monceau
Photograph: Chabe01 / CC BY-SA 4.0

Day 1

Starts from Opéra · 5h at the sights, 1h 05m travelling · 9.3 km

Areas: 8th arrondissement, 1st arrondissement, Tuileries, Latin Quarter

  1. Parc Monceau — An English-style park with a colonnade and scattered follies (45m)
  2. Chapelle expiatoire — A quiet chapel where Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were first buried (30m)
  3. Tuileries Garden — The formal garden between the Louvre and the Concorde (45m)
  4. Musée de l'Orangerie — Monet's Water Lilies in two oval rooms built for them (1h 15m)
  5. Palais-Royal — Arcaded gardens behind the Louvre, with Buren's striped columns (45m)
  6. Jardin du Luxembourg — Formal gardens round the Senate, with green chairs and a toy-boat pond (1h)