Luxembourg Gardens
Guide
Photo: Kirua · Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
FreeParkAllow 45–90 minPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Formal gardens around a palace and a big round pond, with gravel paths, rows of trees, statues of French queens and hundreds of green metal chairs you can pull up anywhere.
A brief history
Laid out in the 1610s for Queen Marie de' Medici; the palace now houses the French Senate.
Tips
- Best time
- Lunchtime, for a picnic in a park chair
- Cost
- Free
- Allow
- 45–90 min
- Free days
- Always free
- Hours
- Usually from early morning to dusk; times change with the season (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- The islands and the Left Bank: Notre-Dame and Sainte-Chapelle on the Île de la Cité, then the Latin Quarter, Saint-Germain and the Luxembourg Gardens across the river.
- Access
- Step-free
- Indoors or out
- Outdoors
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