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Luxembourg Gardens
The Left Bank's elegant palace garden, with a pond for toy sailboats, the Medici Fountain and green chairs for lingering.
- Open
- Every day, from dawn to dusk
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Rue de Médicis / Rue de Vaugirard, 75006 ParisDirections
- Getting There
- Luxembourg station (RER B), or Odéon (Metro lines 4 and 10).
Why Go
Laid out for Marie de' Medici in the 17th century around her palace, now the French Senate, the gardens are Parisians' favorite place to read, play chess or sit in the sun.
Children push wooden sailboats across the central pond, and the shady Medici Fountain is a quiet corner.
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