Description
Parc André-Citroën is a modern park of 14 hectares on the left bank of the Seine, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, built where the Citroën car factory once stood. When it opened in 1992, it was the largest new park in Paris in over a century.
At its heart lies a huge rectangular lawn, about 270 meters long and 85 wide. At the city end, two tall glass greenhouses hold exotic and Mediterranean plants, with dancing fountains between them. Along one side runs a raised canal lined by a walkway.
To the north are six small Serial Gardens, each tied to a color, a metal, a planet, a day of the week and a sense, and a "Garden in Movement" of wild grasses that sway in the wind.
Since 1999 the park has also been the base of a tethered helium balloon that lifts up to 30 people 300 meters above Paris, with views reaching the Sacré-Cœur and Notre-Dame.
At its heart lies a huge rectangular lawn, about 270 meters long and 85 wide. At the city end, two tall glass greenhouses hold exotic and Mediterranean plants, with dancing fountains between them. Along one side runs a raised canal lined by a walkway.
To the north are six small Serial Gardens, each tied to a color, a metal, a planet, a day of the week and a sense, and a "Garden in Movement" of wild grasses that sway in the wind.
Since 1999 the park has also been the base of a tethered helium balloon that lifts up to 30 people 300 meters above Paris, with views reaching the Sacré-Cœur and Notre-Dame.