This huge green space covering more than 13 hectares was built on the land of the former car maker André Citroën and was designed by 4 architects and landscape gardeners including the eminent Gilles Clément.

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.

A central lawn area runs down towards the river Seine and is a great place to relax. Strolling around the park you can admire the gigantic hothouses which are home to exotic and Mediterranean plants, admire the numerous thematic gardens: the white garden, the black garden, a garden in perpetual movement, six serial gardens and their little hothouses.

For several years now the Parc André Citroën has been home to a huge tethered balloon which monitors air quality in Paris and takes the public on a 150-metre balloon ride into the sky for a stunning view of the French capital.

Photo D.R.