The Square des Poètes is a park located right next to the Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil in western Paris. It is dedicated to poetry, with busts of famous poets (Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Alexander Pushkin…) and 48 plaques with French poetry.
The Square des Batignolles is a park in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, near Parc Matin Luther King. It was designed as an English landscape garden and built during the Second Empire.
The Parc Clichy-Batignolles - Martin-Luther-King is a large park in north-west Paris, designed by Jacqueline Osty. It is located at the center of the Clichy-Batignolles mixed-use development that includes many modern buildings for housing and offices, as well as the new Tribunal de Paris. When I visited, construction was not finished yet and there were still many cranes surrounding the park.
Parc départemental Jean Moulin - Les Guilands is a large park located in the towns of Montreuil and Bagnolet, just east of Paris in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The Jardin des Colonnes is a park in Paris, located on Place de Séoul, near Montparnasse and the Eglise Notre-Dame du Travail. Its name comes from the surrounding housing development, designed by brutalist architect Ricardo Bofill, of Espaces d’Abraxas fame.
The Jardin Atlantique is a public park located on the roof of the Gare Montparnasse railway station.
Starting from my hotel near Oudehaven, I walked along the Nieuwe Maas river until Leuvehaven and the Maritime Museum. Then I made a detour through the Westersingel canal, on the way to Het Park, where the Euromast is located. I had planned to visit the observatory, but I decided to postpone because of the fog. Instead, I walked back to Erasmusbrug along the river.
Parc Georges Valbon (aka Parc de la Courneuve) is a huge park (417 ha) in Seine-Saint-Denis. After my visit to the Basilica of Saint-Denis, I walked to the park and spent the rest of the day there, until sunset. The weather was really nice and the park looked great in fall colors.
Jardin du Monument aux Mères Françaises (Park of the Monument to French Mothers) is a small park in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, right next to Parc Kellerman. The monument was designed by Paul Bigot and built in 1938 under the Popular Front.
Parc Kellermann is a public park located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It was created between 1939 and 1950 on the former bed of the Bièvre river.