Parc des Buttes Chaumont

Parc des Buttes Chaumont in France
Tired of the bustle of the streets, you can visit the beautiful park complex located in Paris near the metro station Batzaris. This vibrant cultural attractions of the French capital is a twenty-five acres of greenery and soothing peace and quiet.





Parc des Buttes Chaumont, located in the middle of one of the largest European cities, takes visitors into the world of twitter of birds and serenity. Tourists getting into the park from the noise of the city, lose, according to many, the sense of time. Parisians love and appreciate their city parks, everyone can come here freely and free of charge.
Everybody can relax on the lawn, make a little picnic on the grass. Young people here can connect to the internet for free using Wi-Fi.



History of the Buttes Chaumont Park begins in 1863, it was then that the Emperor Napoleon III ordered to be built on the site of an old quarry, which at that time has become a haven for bandits vagrants, a place for recreation for the citizens of Paris.
In turn, the Baron Haussmann, who at the time stayed on as mayor of Paris, commissioned to design the park engineer Jean-Charles Alfanu, Parisians have won the trust of its successful plan Vincennes and Bois de Boulogne.
The problem had to be done in a very short time, because of the World exhibition, which was held in 1867 in the French capital, the park should have taken its visitors. The works were also connected to the architect Gabriel Daviu and landscape designer Jean-Pierre Deschamps barium.
The order of the emperor on the establishment of a grand park complex was completed efficiently and on schedule. Workers spent four levels of terracing, paved more than five kilometers of road, replace the top layer of soil, landed a variety of shrubs and trees over a large area is equal to twenty-five hectares.
In 1867, Napoleon III during the international exhibition presented the public with amazing beautiful Parc des Buttes Chaumont. On the territory of the park complex dominated by the English landscape style, the contours on a map of the park resemble a horn. This is not surprising, because, as a cornucopia, the park is filled with many beautiful landscapes: a suspension bridge, rocks, a waterfall and a lake, English and Chinese gardens, lots of spectacularly decorated lawns. All this is our time pleases the visitors, attracting thousands of tourists from all over the world.















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