PARC DE BAGATELLE / JARDIN BOTANIQUE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS

Created in the 18^th century at the heart of the Bois de Boulogne, the beautiful Parc de Bagatelle is laid out in the Anglo-Chinese style. The 24-hectare park is landscaped in a determinedly romantic fashion and features charmingly bucolic scenes with waterfalls, grottoes, little bridges and a Chinese pagoda.

It houses the delightful Château de Bagatelle built in 1777 in just 64 days following a bet between the owner of the estate the Comte d’Artois and his sister-in-law Queen Marie-Antoinette, who was to stay there on her return two months later.

The park, designed by the landscape architect Thomas Blaikie, includes a world-renowned magnificent rose garden of 8,000 rose plants representing 1,200 species, an orangery, the Trianon, small thematic gardens — the iris garden, the presentation garden, the perennial plant garden, etc. — that present plants by species.

Every year, the Parc de Bagatelle hosts an international rose competition, temporary exhibitions and classical music concerts.

Photo D.R.

Practical information

PARC DE BAGATELLE / JARDIN BOTANIQUE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS

Bois de Boulogne Route de Sèvres-à-Neuilly et Allée de Longchamp

75016

PARIS

Metro :

Porte Maillot

Bus :

M° puis bus 244 ou 43

www.paris.fr

Access for persons with limited mobility

Tourisme & Handicap label

Park-garden-walk

Municipal

It was Jean-Claude-Nicolas Forestier, conservator of the parks and gardens of the city of Paris -and designer of the Champs-de-Mars and other gardens- who had wanted to establish collections of plants in open ground and perennial and climbing plants at Bagatelle. This friend of Monet's was inspired by the Impressionists and their way of showing flowers by species and emphasizing the effects of mass planting. The rose garden remains his major work. There you can see 10,000 roses of 1,200 varieties. The park has other fine collections of plants: from March onwards, spring bulbs; in May, peonies, clematis, irises, then in June, roses and water lilies; in autumn dalhias and trees with colored foliage; in winter, winter-flowering trees and shrubs and snowdrops.

Others informations

Architecturals styles :

Classical

List of collections :

Green plants

Collections period :

18th century

Opening days and times

Days of week :

Open on those public holidays :

Individual tours

Independant tour :

1.50 Euro
0.75 Euro

Guided tour :

Guided tours are organized by the "Direction des Parcs et Jardins" (parks and gardens head office) located 1 av Gordon Bennett 75016 PARIS. For further information 01.40.71.75.60.
Programme available each year in the city hall of each district, at the reception hall of the Hotel de Ville, and at the Office de Tourisme de Paris.

Group tours

School group without guide.

Services

Foreign language tour.

Wheelchair hire.

Photo allowed.

Viewpoint :

From the Empress kiosk, fine view over the valley of the Seine and Mont-Valérien.

Restaurant.

Gifts shop.

Room hire.

Other services :

Museum & Monuments pass		Child minding		Animals welcome
Bookshop