Tuileries Garden, or Jardin des Tuileries, is a French garden in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, between the Louvre Museum and Place de la Concorde. Created in 1564 for the Tuileries Palace, it opened to the public in 1667 and later became a public park.
Bois de Boulogne is a forest and urban park in western Paris, near Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. Covering 845 hectares, it is the city’s second-largest park and includes gardens, lakes, sports venues, and cultural institutions.
Jardin du Luxembourg is a public garden in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Created in 1612 for Marie de Médicis beside the Luxembourg Palace, it includes flower beds and sculptures and covers 25 hectares, 23 of them open to the public.
Champ de Mars is a vast public garden in Paris’s Gros-Caillou district. Located between the Eiffel Tower and the École militaire, it is one of the city’s largest green spaces and has been a classified site since 1956.
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a public garden in northeast Paris, in the 19th arrondissement. Opened in 1867, it covers nearly 25 hectares and is designed as an English-style landscape.
Coulée verte René-Dumont, formerly called Promenade plantée, is a voie verte and linear park in Paris, France. It follows the route of a former railway line from Place de la Bastille to Porte de Montempoivre.
Parc de la Toison d'or was an amusement park in Dijon, France, adjacent to the La Toison d'or shopping center. It closed in 1993 and became an urban park with playgrounds, rose gardens, and animal enclosures.
The Muséum national d'histoire naturelle is France’s National Museum of Natural History and a higher education institution linked to Sorbonne University. Its main museum in Paris, within the Jardin des Plantes, includes four galleries.
Bois de Vincennes is a forest and urban park on the eastern edge of Paris, France. Created between 1855 and 1866 by Napoleon III, it is the largest public park in Paris and includes gardens, sports facilities, and a zoo.
Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France, located in Paris’s 5th arrondissement on the left bank of the Seine. It includes museums, greenhouses, and a small zoo.
Parc de la Villette is a 55-hectare urban park in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. Designed by Bernard Tschumi in 1982, it occupies the site of the former slaughterhouse and livestock market.
Jardin d'Acclimatation is a 19-hectare amusement park and zoo at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, between porte de Neuilly and porte des Sablons. It runs along boulevard Maurice-Barrès in Neuilly-sur-Seine and is open every day of the year.
Parc Monceau is a garden in the Europe district of Paris, sometimes called parc de Monceau. It is surrounded by streets, avenues, and luxurious hôtels particuliers, and includes historic features such as the Naumachie, a Ledoux rotunda pavilion, and marble statues.
The Jardins du Trocadéro are an urban park in Paris facing the Seine. Created for the 1937 Exposition spécialisée, they occupy the site of the former garden of the palais du Trocadéro and are bordered by the palais de Chaillot.
Parc de la Tête d'Or is an urban park in Lyon and one of the largest parks in France. It covers 117 hectares in the city center and includes a botanical garden, with management by the city of Lyon.
Parc du Thabor is a public park near the centre of Rennes, France. Covering more than ten hectares, it combines a French garden, an English garden, and a large botanical garden.
Parc Montsouris is a large urban park in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, opposite the Cité Universitaire de Paris. Established in 1869, it features an English-style landscape with a lake, lawns, planted trees, statues, monuments, and a restaurant.
Parc André Citroën is an urban park in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, created on the former Citroën factory site in the Javel district. It slopes gently toward the Seine and combines vegetation, water features, greenhouses, and themed gardens.
The Jardin zoologique de la ville de Lyon is a municipal zoological park in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, located within Lyon’s Parc de la Tête d’Or. Created in 1858 under Rhône prefect Claude-Marius Vaïsse, it presents more than 300 animals of 66 species.
Jardin des Vestiges is an archaeological garden behind Centre Bourse in Marseille. It contains remains of the ancient Port of Marseille and forms part of the Museum of History of Marseille. Classified as a historic monument site, it was uncovered in 1967 and opened to the public in 1983.
Jardin des plantes de Montpellier is a botanical university garden founded in 1593 in Montpellier. Part of the Faculty of Medicine and the University of Montpellier, it combines botanical, historical, and university functions.
Terra Botanica is a theme park in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, devoted to the world of plants and biodiversity. It highlights the botanical and horticultural expertise of Anjou and is intended to educate young generations about respect for the plant world.
Parc de Bagatelle is a historic landscaped park and botanical garden in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris’s 16th arrondissement. Created in 1777, it is an early French example of Anglo-Chinese landscape design and is known for its rose garden.
Parc de Procé is an urban park in western Nantes, in the Hauts-Pavés - Saint-Félix and Dervallières - Zola districts. Crossed by the Chézine, it is among the city’s main green spaces and includes sports facilities and several heritage elements.
Jardin des plantes de Nantes is a public botanical garden in Nantes, covering 7.32 hectares. It is identified by the code NTM and has been listed as a remarkable garden since 2004.
Jardin extraordinaire is a public park in Nantes, in the Bellevue - Chantenay - Sainte-Anne district on the right bank of the Loire. It occupies part of the former Carrière de Miséry and includes a 25-meter waterfall, quarry vegetation, and a metal staircase linking the garden to the cliff top.
The Japanese Garden of Toulouse is a closed park in the Compans-Caffarelli green space. Designed as a place of meditation, it presents botanical varieties from the Far East, a mineral garden, and a red wooden bridge linking an island symbolizing paradise.
The Cité-jardin du Stockfeld is a garden-city neighborhood in Strasbourg, in France’s Bas-Rhin department. Built in the early 20th century, it was developed in the Neuhof district under German rule and is now classified as a historical monument.
Albert I Garden is an urban park in Nice and one of the city’s oldest public gardens. Enclosed by avenue des Phocéens, place Masséna, avenue de Verdun, and promenade des Anglais, it has borne several names before taking its present one in 1914.
Île de Versailles is a river island on the Erdre in Nantes, in the Hauts-Pavés - Saint-Félix district. It lies closer to the right bank than the left and is linked by a stone bridge and two metal footbridges.
Parc Hamelin Oberthür is a public botanical garden in eastern Rennes, in the Thabor-Saint-Hélier-Alphonse Guérin neighborhood. Covering nearly three hectares, it contains unique botanical specimens and reflects its history as a former private garden.
Jardin Rosa Mir is a courtyard garden in the Croix-Rousse quarter of Lyon, created by Jules Senis and housed at No. 83 Grande Rue de la Croix-Rousse. Its structure includes decorated columns, a central fountain and an altar to the Virgin Mary.
Giardino del Ranelagh is an English-style urban park in Paris, created in 1860 by engineer Adolphe Alphand. It is named after the earlier Petit Ranelagh, a fashionable dance venue in the gardens of the Château de la Muette.
Jardin Atlantique is a suspended urban park built above the tracks of Paris-Montparnasse station. It includes a large central lawn, a fountain, play areas, sports facilities, and landscaped planting.
Parc de Bercy is an urban park in Paris on the site of the former wine warehouses of Bercy. It preserves traces of the old industrial layout and is linked to nearby metro stations, the Bercy-Seine bus station, and the Simone-de-Beauvoir footbridge.
Parc Sergent Blandan is a 17-hectare urban park in Lyon, on the site of the former caserne sergent Blandan. It is divided into three distinct areas and includes military heritage from the mid-19th century.
Jardin des serres d’Auteuil is a public botanical garden at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Redesign in the late 19th century brought cast-iron greenhouses, a fountain by Jules Dalou, and mascarons by Auguste Rodin.
Jardin Public is an urban park in the center of Bordeaux. Planned in 1746 by intendant Tourny, it was later redesigned in English garden style in 1856 and has retained that character. It is listed as a historical monument.
Parc floral de Paris is a public park and botanical garden in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris’s 12th arrondissement. Created in 1969, it remains a legacy of an international horticultural exposition and is one of the city’s four botanical gardens.
Prairie des Filtres is a green area in Toulouse, located along the Garonne near Pont-Neuf and Cours Dillon. Its history includes flooding, land formation by deposits, and later use for public events, sports, and gatherings.
The former Parc des expositions de Toulouse was an exhibition park on Île du Ramier, near the center of Toulouse. It was used for trade shows and sports competitions until 2020.
Grand Rond is a public garden in Toulouse, France. Created southeast of the city center in the 1750s, it has a roundabout layout and five main avenues. The park covers about 4 hectares and later adopted an English garden style.
Le Pâquier is a vast landscaped promenade in Annecy, covering seven and a half hectares on the shores of Lake Annecy. It forms the central element of a wider park and garden complex.
Jardin des Plantes is a public garden in Toulouse, in the historic Busca district southeast of the city center. Formerly a botanical garden, it kept the name after losing official botanical status and is part of a group of three public gardens with Grand Rond and Jardin Royal.
Parc des Hauteurs is an urban park in Lyon, on the hill of Fourvière. It includes several public places from the outskirts of the Basilica of Fourvière to Loyasse cemetery, as well as Visitation Park and the Passerelle des Quatre-Vents viaduct.
Parc du Grand-Blottereau is an urban park in Nantes linked to the former Grand-Blottereau lordship. Its history includes episcopal ownership, later noble families, and the construction of a castle in the 18th century.
Parc zoologique de Montpellier is a zoological park in the Lunaret park area, north of Montpellier in the Occitanie region. Founded in 1964, it covers 80 hectares and presents about 170 animals from 29 species.
The Alsace Wine Fair is an annual event held for 10 days during the last two weekends of July at Parc des Expositions de Colmar. It combines a trade fair, a showcase of Alsace wines, and an eclectic music festival.