The Bois de Boulogne is a large public park that is the western half of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. The land was ceded to the city of Paris by the Emperor Napoleon III to be turned into a public park in 1852.It is the second-largest park in Paris, slightly smaller than the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern side of the city. It covers an area of 845 hectares, which is about two and a half times the area of Central Park in New York, slightly larger than Phoenix Park in Dublin, and slightly smaller than Richmond Park in London.
Within the boundaries of the Bois de Boulogne are an English landscape garden with several lakes and a cascade; two smaller botanical and landscape gardens, the Château de Bagatelle and the Pré-Catelan; a zoo and amusement park in the Jardin d'Acclimatation; GoodPlanet Foundation's Domaine de Longchamp dedicated to ecology and humanism, The Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil, a complex of greenhouses…
The wood itself is open 24/7. For more information about the gardens, please visit the park's site at parisinfo.com.
Admission to the wood is free.
Jardin des serres d'Auteuil: free
Jardin d'Acclimatation: €3
Parc de Bagatelle: €8 (reduced €4)
Boat hire: €10 (for the first hour)
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois_de_Boulogne
Official website http://www.paris.fr/jardins#bois-de-boulogne_19
More information http://en.parisinfo.com/paris-museum-monument/71494/Bois-de-Boulogne
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