PARC ANDRE CITROEN

The Parc André-Citröen opened at the beginning of the 1990s at the heart of a new architectural complex in the 15^th arrondissement. 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.

Practical information

PARC ANDRE CITROEN

Quai André Citroen

75015

PARIS

Metro :

Balard

RER :

Boulevard Victor

Bus :

42 - 88

www.paris.fr

Access for persons with limited mobility

Tourisme & Handicap label

Current events :

Les Parisiens retrouvent peu à peu le contact avec leur fleuve dont les abords étaient confisqués depuis trop longtemps par la circulation automobile. Ainsi, l'allée du bord-de-l'eau s'ouvre au bois de Boulogne. Du quai André Citroën, on pourra beintôt gagner le pont d'Austerlitz, puis le parc de Bercy après l'achèvement de la passerelle Bercy-Tolbiac, soit un itinéraire d'environ 12km le long des berges, franchissant trois fois le fleuve.

Park-garden-walk

Municipal

Inaugurated in 1992, at the heart of a new area, on the site of former car factories, this park has been opened directly onto the Seine since July 1999. It is one of the largest parks to be recently established in Paris. Very innovative and very structured, it uses water and stone to set off to advantage the vegetation in an unusual way. A series of six gardens have been designed by Gilles Clément; each one of them has a dominant nuance: a golden garden, a silver garden, a red garden, an orange garden, a green garden and a blue garden. In the garden in motion, informal space, spindle-trees, rose bushes, blackberry bushes, bamboos, balsams, foxgloves and other wild flowers, chosen for their roving properties grow freely. A garden that is perpetually changing, it highlights the flora of fallow land as a counterpoint to the refinement of the surrounding areas.

Fly over Paris on bord the Eutelsat balloon at 150m high and discover the capital, panorama at 360°. Information by phone 01 44 26 20 00. 10 euros.

Others informations

List of collections :

Green plants

Collections period :

20th century

Opening days and times

Days of week :

Open on those public holidays :

Individual tours

Independant tour.

Guided tour :

Guided tours are organized by the "Direction des Parcs et Jardins"(parks and gardens head office) located 1 av Gordon Bennett 75016 PARIS. For further information, please phone at 01.40.71.75.60.
Programme available each year in the city hall of each district, at the reception hall of the Hotel de Ville, and at the Office de Tourisme de Paris.

Group tours

Group of adults with museum guide.

Services

Foreign language tour.

Foreign language information.

Photo allowed.

Room hire.

Other services :

Museum & Monuments pass		Child minding		Animals welcome
Bookshop