Highlights
- A bucolic walk in the heart of the 19th arrondissement
- The discovery of Haussmannian Paris and its transformations
- Nature and the countryside in the capital
🥪 (Ideal for organizing a picnic, before or after the tour)
- Duration : 1h30
- Route : about 2km (everything is done on foot)
- Age : all audiences
- Meeting point : Pyrénées metro station – Exit n°1
- Language : French – English
- Tour led by tour guides
Schools and extracurricular activities
- Level : primary, middle school, high school
- Age : from 8 years old
- For whom : schools, leisure centres, associations
- Age: from 8 years old (CE2/CM1)
- Culture Pass accepted
- Settlement in administrative voucher accepted
A visit to the most famous Haussmanian garden in Paris
During this visit you will discover the secrets and specificities of this municipal park, a masterpiece of the Haussmannian period.
You will walk through the place retracing its history, from the sinister Gibet of Montfaucon to the old gypsum quarries. You will pass in front of the famous guinguette “Rosa Bonheur” as well as along the Petite Ceinture.
You will discover the Temple of Sybille, a replica of the one in Tivoli or the famous “Bridge of the Suicides”.
A bit of history
Located in the heart of the 19th arrondissement, the Buttes Chaumont park is one of the largest green spaces in the capital with nearly 25 hectares. Inaugurated on 1 April 1867 during the last years of the reign of Napoleon III, it was designed by the engineer Adolphe Alphand.
This English-style garden imitates a mountain landscape: rocks, cliffs, torrents, waterfalls, caves, mountain pastures and belvederes.
Last but not least, the visit is intended to be a bucolic walk where the sublime and picturesque are mixed in the manner of the precepts with which the park was imagined.
