This is the third in a series of posts covering Paris’s many wonderful parks and gardens. The first post featured Luxembourg Gardens. The second was on the Palais Royal gardens. If you didn’t see those posts, you can catch up when you like. They are not in any sequence.
For this current post, we decided to cover the Tuileries Garden. But in starting to edit the photos of this very popular park, we discovered there was simply too much material we wanted to share for just one post. So we have split it into two parts, arbitrarily, perhaps, by seasons. We’re starting off with autumn and winter even though we’re posting this in late spring. But by the time you see the second part, spring and summer, it will be early summer so we trust it will all work out.
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The Tuileries Garden in autumn.
SOME BACKGROUND
As with just about everything in Paris, the Tuileries Garden has a history. It dates back to the mid 1500s and Catherine de Medici, wife of Henry II. After he died, she moved her family to the Palais du Louvre. Five years later she decided to build a new palace with more gardens. The land she bought for the purpose had forever been a center of tile-making factories – tuileries. A tuile is a tile. Catherine and her family’s new home was called the Tuileries Palace. Its grounds, which began as an Italian Renaissance garden, is now le Jardin des Tuileries, the Tuileries Garden. The garden itself has a long and interesting history which is well worth reading, but too much for this post.
After the French Revolution forcefully changed its ownership, the garden became a public park, which it remains to this day, extending all the way between the Louvre at one end and the Place de la Concorde at the other. A wonderful garden with great variety as we will show you in photos (without much description).
So here it is, the Tuileries Garden in autumn and winter.
AUTUMN
View of the Louvre looking down the Terrace du Bord de l’Eau (the terrace by the river on the south side of the garden near the Seine) in early autumn .
This is the Tuileries Carousel in autumn. Further on you can see how it looks in the snow.
The green chairs are a favorite feature of many of the Paris parks and the Tuileries Garden has a major share.
The following images are taken in winter when the garden is still a wonderful place to stroll, best of all if there is snow.
WINTER
The Tuileries Carousel in the snow.
The snow transforms the garden completely.
Once again we like to show that the park is inhabited. It has been one of Paris’s most popular spots ever since the French Revolution. So here are some people to prove it. This is still autumn and winter, mind you. In spring and especially in summer it is very popular and populated indeed.
PEOPLE
We have kept the images with people in them till last. So you can appreciate the empty park in the previous photos but also see just how popular and pleasant it is for visitors.
The sailing boats on the pond are very popular, even in winter. but you will see more of them in the next post when we cover spring and summer.
Well, we have shown you snippets of the Tuileries Garden in autumn and winter. Next up will be the same gardens in spring and summer and you will get a feel for just how seasonal Paris is, just as wonderful at any time of year.
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We certainly hope you have enjoyed this brief tour of the Tuileries Garden in autumn and winter. If you are on the mailing list we will let you know when the next post is up.
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À bientôt,
The Parisian Moments Team