A look on the Bagatelle Park near Paris

6 août 2006

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Well, it is summer time and on Sunday, going out is a good idea. We will continue studying the intercultural relationaships later.

If you like walking, picturesque and romantic areas, I advise you going in the marvellous Bagatelle Park, very closed to Paris.

GLIMPSE ON THE BAGATELLE PARK

If you have the chance to live in Paris or in suburbs, you cannot ignore the name of the Bagatelle Park. Indeed, every year a famous roses contest takes place in June to award the new ones.

Even if I have been living in Paris for 6 years now, I discovered recently this place... I talked about it around me and noticed most of my friends did not know such beauties were so reachable from Paris. It is a shame!

So if you are in another country or in France in another place, do not have any regret on this matter and just discover with us!

In a word,the Bagatelle Park is a heritage from the 18^th century, built under Louis XVI brother’s command. Originally this area included a small castle and a 10 hectares garden in the British-Chinese style so totally 16 hectares.

Bought in 1835 by Louis-Philippe to Lord Seymour, the park reached 24 hectares between 1855 and 1860 thanks to Lord Seymour’s adopted son, Richard Wallace. This one invited the landscape gardener Varé to create the garden in accordance with the current trends.

Finally, Paris city purchased it in 1905. Another landscape gardner, Jean-Nicolas Forestier is required to simplify the garden and created among others the well-known rose garden instead of plantations.

Nowadays, the Bagatelle Park is an official botanical garden of Paris city. Its park is a real resumé of the gardens art for the three last centuries.

You can find a Trianon, a small castle, a small waterfall, the famous rose garden, a kitchen garden near a rustic cottage. It can seem also surprising to discover peacocks free to move in the rose garden, swans on the waterfall...

A real gift for the lover of nature and lovers in general as it is such a romantic place.

Let you discover and come back to me if you like this kind of place!

You can find hepful information to go there on the following links:

http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Paris/Parks_Gardens/Bagatelle.shtml

http://www.v1.paris.fr/en/visiting/gardens/parc_bagatelle.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concours_international_de_roses_nouvelles_de_Bagatelle

http://www.rosarosam.com/gardens/bagatelle/bagatelle_detail.html

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/gd.php?n=136

Some of my pictures to give you an overview :