Paris

The creation of a park on this site corresponded to the plan of installation haussmannien, with the second Empire, for which each cardinal point of the capital was to have its park. A park arranged in garden with English. The old railways which traversed the site were dissimulated to create an undulating landscape. The Park constitutes a preserved natural environment: one finds there, among the 1400 trees, poplar of Virginia, cedar of Lebanon, elms of Siberia, ginko biloba and of very many species of birds.

The palace was built in the early 1600s for Queen Marie dei Medici, the widow of King Henri IV. Today, it's the home of the French Senate. The gardens are a public park (the largest on the Left Bank).

In the 1920's the St Germain quarter was the meeting place for the students, artists and writers of the Left Bank. After the German occupation it was the most fashionable district for jazz musicians, Jean-Paul Sartre and his existentialists, not forgetting Albert Camus and Boris Vian an artist of eclectic talents, a jazz trumpeter, a poet and novelist, who contributed greatly to the image of St Germain. The district became fashionable particularly because of the American Press, flattered at this acknowledgement of jazz, American music, much more appreciated in the City of Light than in the country where it was born.

Once that you arrived at the 59ème stage of the Montparnasse Tower the town of Paris offers to you. A sight which carries up to 40 kilometers... then do not forget your telescope!