Garden of Luxembourg

Monuments and statues

Located in the middle of the Latin Quarter of Paris, gathered in the enclosure of a very beautiful grid with which the points are covered with a gold sheet, the gardens accommodate several classified buildings:

the Palate of Luxembourg where seat the Senate, the Upper House of the Parliament, owner of the garden of which it ensures maintenance (the garden of Luxembourg is a private garden, opened with the public).
the Museum of Luxembourg, devoted to great temporary exhibitions of art, considered for the quality of works presented. One reaches the palate of Luxembourg and the museum by the Rue of Vaugirard.
the Orangery, located on the Delacroix alley, which shelters a series of plants known as “of orangery”, coming from the Mediterranean circumference, which one finds in the part of the garden said “to the Frenchwoman” as from May. The summer, the Orangery is used as room of temporary exhibitions.
the old Vendôme Hotel, now occupied by the École des Mines of Paris

Many statues are distributed in the gardens. They represent figures of the Greek Mythologie, but also of the animals, characters famous such as Beethoven or Baudelaire and, around the central terrace, the queens of France. One finds there also one of the originals of the Statue of Freedom (offered by Bartholdi to the museum in 1900, then installed in the garden in 1906).

The garden has a part “with the Frenchwoman” located in the axis of the palate and the parts “at English” of with dimensions of the Rue Guynemer, as well as an orchard, academy of pomology of varieties old and forgotten, located vis-a-vis the Lycée Montaigne, on with dimensions one of the Rue Auguste-Count.

The whole of the garden, commonly called “Luco”, is traversed be allowing the walk and the dawdling. One of them is evoked in a poem of Gerard de Nerval entitled an alley of Luxembourg :

It passed, the young girl : Perfume, young girl, harmony…

happiness passed, it fled!

Activities

The garden accommodates sports activities: Tennis, Basketball, martial arts, as well as the final stages of the Championship of France of Jeu of palm, which take place first Sunday of September. The ground of the Jeu de Paume of the Senate accommodated the tests of the Olympic Games of summer of 1900. In the north-western corner, close to the Orangery, of the players of failures meet regularly, even in full winter, whereas those of Bridge (three tables) wait the beautiful days to point their nose in middle of afternoon. Exposures of photographs are regularly installed on the external grids since 1997, other types of exposures are also installed inside the garden as in 2001 the exposure of the sculptor Lucien Bénière. In the north-eastern corner, the bandstand is the framework in concerts whose programs are posted throughout the beautiful season. One also gives in the garden of the representations of opera. Activities are also proposed to the children: park with plays, walks with back of pony on the alley of the asses and puppet theater. There young people and less young people find themselves around the principal basin to make evolve/move of the small-scale models of remote-controlled boats or with veils.

One finds cultures of plants of solid masses intended for the floors of the garden and greenhouses sheltering of the house plants and for flowers intended for the decoration of the interiors of the palate. An apiary located near the Davioud House (Vavin carries) makes it possible to be initiated with the Apiculture.

The schedules of the garden vary according to the length of the day:

Opening: 7:30 with 8:15
Closing: 16:45 with 21:45 (closing with laying down sun)

The precise schedules are given on the Paris.fr site

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