Jardin d’Acclimatation
  • 12
  • Apr
  • 2011

It’s also a great place for the kids. With an amusement park, a menagerie and a locomotive train that takes them on a ride through the Bois de Boulogne, they will not want to leave.

Jardin d’Acclimatation, Bois de Boulogne, 75116 Paris, M° Porte Maillot (and you jump on the small train that takes you the entrance)

The Sélects : a walk to the big fashion houses
  • 26
  • Jan
  • 2011

Fans of French luxury and refinement, The Sélects frequent the big fashion houses which has given Paris its reputation for haute couture, jewellry, accecories, etc…For those for who fashion is timeless.

Start at Passy /  Champs-Elysées / Georges V-Montaigne / Madeleine / Vendôme / Saint-Germain-des-Près. When you go to www.shoppingbyparis.com, you get tips where to spend your money, to pauze for a delicious snack or make a cultural detour.

Exploration of “La Nouvelle Athènes”
  • 01
  • Dec
  • 2010

The name “Nouvelle Athènes” was given in 1823 by a journalist, Dureau de la Malle because of the grecomania ambiance around Saint-Georges.

You can make a guided walk (in French) on the path of the well-known Romantic artist : George Sand, Pauline Viardot, Mademoiselle Mars, Victor Hugo, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault, Honoré de Balzac …

On the following tuesday at 14h30

November : 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
December : 7, 14
Januari : 4, 11

The walk takes around  1h30 and costs 7,50 Euro. Reservation is a must tel. 01.55.31.95.67

Renovation of “Les grandes serres”
  • 12
  • Oct
  • 2010

After some years of restauration, “Les grandes serres” are open again to the public. They got back their splendour and were made more up to date. Everybody can make 4 different voyages and discover the biodiversity of our planet :

- The conservatory of the tropical rain forest ( old winter garden )

- The conservatory of the deserts

- The conservatory of New-Caledonia

- The conservatory of the history of the plants

Jardin des Plantes, 57, Rue Cuvier, 2 Rue Buffon, 36 Rue Geoffroy-St-Hilaire, place Valhubert, 75005 Paris

Bus : Lignes 24, 57, 61, 63, 67, 89 et 91

Batobus : arrêt Jardin des Plantes.

Metro, RER : ligne 5 Austerlitz – ligne 7 Censier Daubenton – ligne 10 Jussieu ou Austerlitz – RER C.

Summertime : 10 am – 18 pm (Sunday until 18.30 pm) Wintertime : 10 am – 17 pm ( take 45 min before closing time)