# Best Parks in Paris

Paris's grand formal gardens and green spaces, from the Senate-run Jardin du Luxembourg to the vast forested Bois on the city's eastern and western edges. · community starter list

8 parks in Paris, including Jardin du Luxembourg (Saint-Germain, Paris). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, and the community's votes decide it from here.

**Where:** [Third Platz](/.md) / [France](/france.md) / Paris
**Updated:** 2026-08-18 04:26:30

1. **[Jardin du Luxembourg](/e/jardin-du-luxembourg---679.md)** (park) — 23-hectare garden created in 1612 for Marie de' Medici, now run by the French Senate; known for the Medici Fountain, model sailboats and 100+ statues. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://jardin.senat.fr/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg_Gardens
2. **[Jardin des Tuileries](/e/jardin-des-tuileries---680.md)** (park) — Formal French garden between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde, laid out in the 1660s by André Le Nôtre; home to the Musée de l'Orangerie's Water Lilies. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_de_l%27Orangerie, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuileries_Garden
3. **[Parc des Buttes-Chaumont](/e/parc-des-buttes-chaumont---681.md)** (park) — Hilly 19th-arrondissement park built on a former quarry in 1867, famous for its cliffside temple, suspension bridge and artificial waterfall grotto. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.paris.fr/lieux/parc-des-buttes-chaumont-1757, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_des_Buttes-Chaumont
4. **[Bois de Boulogne](/e/bois-de-boulogne---682.md)** (park) — 845-hectare former royal hunting forest on Paris's western edge, home to the Roland-Garros tennis stadium and the Château de Bagatelle rose garden. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_d%27Acclimatation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois_de_Boulogne
5. **[Bois de Vincennes](/e/bois-de-vincennes---683.md)** (park) — Paris's largest park at nearly 1,000 hectares, on the city's eastern edge next to the Château de Vincennes; four lakes, a zoo and a flower garden. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Vincennes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois_de_Vincennes
6. **[Parc Monceau](/e/parc-monceau---684.md)** (park) — 8th-arrondissement garden from 1778, famous for its architectural 'follies' - an Egyptian pyramid, a Roman colonnade and a Dutch windmill among them. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_arrondissement_of_Paris, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_Monceau
7. **[Champ de Mars](/e/champ-de-mars---685.md)** (park) — Long lawn running from the Eiffel Tower to the École Militaire, first used as a military drilling ground and site of the first Bastille Day in 1790. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_de_Mars
8. **[Jardin des Plantes](/e/jardin-des-plantes---686.md)** (park) — 28-hectare botanical garden founded in 1635, headquarters of France's Natural History Museum with a small zoo and 10,000+ plant species on display. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Natural_History,_France, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_des_Plantes

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