Named after one of France’s major car producers, the Parc Andre Citroen is a contemporary gem of a park situated in southwest Paris, into the area known as Javel. The Parc Andre Citroen and its thematic gardens, special architecture, and fusion of organic and industrial elements makes a visit here worthwhile and memorable. Parc André Citroën is a 14 hectares open park situated in the XVe arrondissement (district) of Paris. The park was built on the site of a former Citroën car manufacturing plant.
In 1915, Citroën built his factory on the banks of the Seine; it operated there until closure in the Seventies. It was created at the start of the Nineties and was officially opened in 1992. Responsible for its design are the French landscape creative designers Gilles Clément and Alain Provost, and the architects Patrick Berger, Jean-François Jodry and Jean-Paul Viguier.
This park with its contemporary design offers many surprises for visitors! Its original layout combines structured planting with the free-flowering fantasy of natural plants and flowers. Water is omnipresent with water channels and many water features
The park is embellished with 2 greenhouse pavilions (hosting exotic plants and Mediterranean vegetation) at the Eastern, urban end, which are separated by a paved part featuring dancing fountains. The South edge of the garden is bounded by a monumental canal the “Jardin des Métamorphoses” composed of an elevated reflecting pool that reaches through granite guard houses, lined with a suspended walkway. On the North side are 2 sets of small gardens: the six “Serial Gardens”, each with a distinct landscape and architectural plan, and a “Garden in Movement” that presents wild grasses chosen to respond at different rates to wind velocity. A 630-meter diagonal path cuts through the park, which continuously changes in its nature. To visit this wonderful place, you can take an appartement de luxe paris.
The park is house to a moored gas balloon operated by the Eutelsat Company, which permits visitors to rise above the Parisian skyline. The helium balloon is filled with 5,500 cubic meters of helium. It is thirty two meters high and has a diameter of 22 meters. For many years now the Parc André Citroën has been home to a massive tethered balloon which monitors air quality in Paris and takes the people on a 150-metre balloon ride into the sky for a stunning view of the French capital. The balloon provides a view of the Champ de Mars, the River Seine, Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral. You already know everything about Paris, go to another beautiful place and take an Appartement près de la Fontaine de Trévise.
The park’s numerous thematic gardens had been conceived around color motifs and contain a white garden, a “black” botanical garden, and gardens complemented by metals of diverse colors. Fountains and ramps help create striking views.
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