This park is unique because it is an amusement park with rides, play areas, horseback riding, near the centre of Paris.  It also houses the Louis Vuitton Foundation museum which is a beautiful glass structure with a large fountain around it.  This building holds art expositions and musical concerts regularly.  The park was being renovated when we visited and will re-open all of it’s grounds in June to showcase to 44 new attractions.

It was a lively park to explore with many places to sit and picnic and water fountains to cool off in.  It was originally a zoo opened by Napoleon III. During the siege of Paris in 1870, many of the animals in the zoo were cooked and served by chef Alexandre Étienne Choron.  It used to have a miniature road system for children to drive around on through the park but that was closed in 2008. It still hosts fair type attractions, puppet theatres and animal exhibits.

We spent an hour to get there by train yesterday, to get there and that had a leisurely walk to explore the areas that were not closed to renovations. We would like to go back one day and visit the whole park!