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Jardin des Plantes
Entrance Quai St-Bernard or Rue Geoffroy-St-Hilaire, 5th, M° Jussieu or Monge
Paris
IIe-de-France
France
Type: Park
Addmission Fee: Entry Euro 2.50
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Paris
IIe-de-France
France
Type: Park
Addmission Fee: Entry Euro 2.50
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That ugly, hulking building behind the Museum is the University of Paris’ Jussieu campus. Hastily constructed in the 1960s to accommodate the exploding Baby Boomer population, it remains an eyesore despite several renovations. Leave all that behind with a detour through the modern sculpture gardens of the Square Tino Rossi to the Jardin des Plantes.
Founded in 1626 as the king’s medicinal garden, it became one of the foremost scientific botanical gardens in the world by the mid-1700s. Today the Jardin des Plantes has over 350 varieties of roses, an alpine garden, tropical and arid greenhouses (open afternoons only; entry Euro 2.50), and winding paths through pines and oaks favored by joggers. The park’s Ménagerie, one of the world’s oldest zoos.
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