Outdoor sights in Paris
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Parc du Champ de Mars
Running southeast from the Eiffel Tower, the grassy Field of Mars (named after the Roman god of war) was originally used as a parade ground for the cadets of the 18th-century École Militaire (Military Academy).On 14 July 1790 the Fête de la Fédération (Federation Festival) was held on the Champ de Mars to celebrate the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. Four years later it was the location of the Fête de l’Être-Suprême (Festival of the Supreme Being), at which Robespierre presided over a ceremony that established a revolutionary ‘state religion’.
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Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
Encircled by tall apartment blocks, the 25-hectare Buttes-Chaumont Park is the closest thing in Paris to Manhattan’s Central Park. The park’s forested slopes hide grottoes and artificial waterfalls, and the lake is dominated by a temple-topped island linked to the mainland by two footbridges. Once a quarry and rubbish tip, the park was given its present form by Baron Haussmann in time for the opening of the 1867 Exposition Universelle.
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Parc de Belleville
Parc de Belleville, which opened in 1992 a few blocks east of bd de Belleville, occupies a hill almost 200m above sea level amid 4.5 hectares of greenery and offers superb views of the city. Paris’ most famous necropolis lies just to the south of the park.
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Jardin du Palais Royal
Just north of the Palais Royal is the Jardin du Palais Royal, a lovely, 21-hectare park surrounded by two arcades, namely Galerie de Valois with its designer fashion shops, art galleries and jewellers, and Galerie de Montpensier with a few old shops remaining.
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