The Parc Monceau

ATTRACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES AT PARC MONCEAU

WITH TODDLERS

• a playground (free) and a sandpit (in a secluded area) for the youngest
• a merry-go-round and traditional swings (for a fee) open every afternoon,
• pony rides on Wednesdays, weekends , school holidays and some public holidays
• an open-air puppet show (except in case of rain), on Wednesdays and weekends at 5 p.m. Truce from November to April, then resumption

WITH CHILDREN

• a skating and skateboarding area (open at the same times as the Parc Monceau)
• bicycles are allowed in the Parc Monceau, but only in a dedicated area (adults and children). It is forbidden to cross the park by bike

PICNIC AND SNACK AT PARC MONCEAU

• a kiosk for snacks and for children’s snacks: ice creams, waffles, drinks…
• large lawns for picnicking or simply relaxing

AND WITH MÉDOR!

• Parc Monceau, in addition to being KidFriendly, is Dogfriendly
• You can walk your dog (in theory on a leash), which is allowed on the Ferdousi alley and on the Comtesse de Ségur alley

TO EAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR TO TAKE AWAY (FOR PICNICS)

• A very good Lebanese (on the spot or to take away): Rimal (94 bd Malesherbes)
• A good burger (on the spot or to take away): Big Fernand (12 avenue de Villiers)
• For their salads (on the spot or to take away): Day (3 rue de Phalsbourg)
• In the Parc Monceau (next to the merry-go-round): pancakes, waffles, drinks
• Picnics allowed on all the lawns of Parc Monceau

THINGS TO DO IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

• The Nissim de Camondo Museum, for a visit to a magnificent private mansion
• The Cernuschi Museum, if you are interested in Asian arts
• The Jacquemart André museum, a very pretty museum of paintings in a beautiful private mansion
• Shopping around the Place des Ternes
• The rue de Levis for its typical Parisian market
• The Champs-Elysées is about a 15-minute walk from Parc Monceau

A LITTLE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

• It straddles the 8th arrondissement and the 17th arrondissement, with an area of 8.25 ha
• A 1st park was built at the end of the 18th century. A second was born (on the same site) under the Second Empire in 1860 (Haussmannian era)
• It is a very poetic and bucolic park, with the Rotunda, statues, colonnades and arcade
• Monet immortalized it in his painting “The Parc Monceau”. He also inspired Georges Braque, Georges d’Espagnat and Gustave Caillebotte. It seems that Marcel Proust liked to walk there.