Luxembourg Gardens & Palace:

The Luxembourg Garden, also known as Jardin du Luxembourg, are one of the largest, most beautiful and famous gardens in France

They are a beautiful 25/22.5 hectares green oasis on Paris fashionable, located on left bank near the Latin Quarter .

These gardens, housed by Palace of Luxembourg, were completed in 1625, but they did not reach their present dimensions until 1790.

In fact, the park has been open to the public since the 17th century.

This public place represent a magnet/attraction for the neighborhood, because offer many different types of activities.

In fact, they are always crowded by users of different ages such as students, lovers, chess and tennis players, or whole family whose parents and children can play contemporarily.

There are any comforts of a successful public place: tennis courts, outdoor cafes, chess tables, places to rest and many games for children like pony rides, merry-go-round, puppet shows, miniature boat sailing on the pond situated at the center of the park, carousel and fenced-in playground. But music performances in the gazebo Outdoor, concerts also occur in the Luxembourg Gardens.

Besides they offer a vastness of wonderfully landscape, sun, shade, and a multitude of strolling paths filled with hundreds of movable chairs; in this way you can relax reading and admiring the multitude of statues, monuments, fountains and flowers scattered throughout the grounds, or simply to watch a group of kids play.

  Among important monuments, we can admire the Medicis Fountain, a romantic baroque fountain designed in 1624

                  ...or the exact Statue of Liberty replica monument in bronze; it was made to build in 1861 and offered to the French by the American residents of Paris as a remembrance to commemorate the Centennial of the French.  

      But also the Statue of Saint Geneviéeve, the patron saint of Paris. and lots more...

    ...and lots more...

In fact, it’s not just a pretty public park, because another attraction is a beautiful 17th-century palace known as the Luxembourg Palace, or Palais du Luxembourg.

It was designed and built in a Florentine style in the early 1600s for Marie de Medicis, mother of king Louis XIII of France, which was nostalgic about her youth at the Pitti Palace in Florence.

The gardens were added subsequently/later, when the palace was extensively remodeled.

The building was used as a prison during the French Revolution, and then used for the peace conference of 1946, and now houses the French Senate.

Actually, it is open to the public on certain days, instead, the Luxembourg Garden , by contrast, is open to the public year-round.

Somehow, the Luxembourg Gardens reveal an authentic view of Parisian life.

It is place whereto enjoy the simple pleasures of life, and there are few parks in the world as integrated into the fabric of a city as the Luxembourg gardens are in Paris

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Narbaez Maria Elena