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Jardín Atlántique
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Marc
July 22, 2014
Quiet french garden above TGV station with several tennis courts
Anelyse
April 29, 2013
Nice and quiet garden on the top of the train station. It can not be seen from the street. Entrance by stairs or elevator on the 25 Boulevard de Vaugirad.
Hotel Louison
October 15, 2018
This is a hidden park on top of the Montparnasse train station. Most Parisians don't even know it exists! Enter the train station, find track 1 - 2. There's a metal staircase to the left. Take it all the way up until you're on top of the train station. It's a great picnic spot, lovely grass planes. There's also a museum of the Résistance there.
Francesco Roberto
June 11, 2016
Large park over train station. Great to walk around and has a large playground for kids. No traffic anywhere so very safe.
Holidays-Discovery
July 25, 2022
The Jardin Atlantique is a public park and garden located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, on the roof that covers the tracks and platforms of the Gare Montparnasse railway station. It has an area of 3.4 hectares. It was created by the landscape architects Brun, Penna and Schnitzler, and opened in 1994. The garden is placed atop the large roof, or dalle, that covers the tracks and platforms of the Gare Montparnasse, supported by twelve pillars, and seventeen meters above the street level. Large ventilator shafts for the station are placed around the garden, and the announcement of the trains departing can be heard in the garden. Cubes of stone filled with earth contain five hundred trees. The garden is surrounded by office buildings and by a line of tennis courts on the west side. It is also the site of a small museum honoring Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, commander of the French armored division which entered Paris first during the liberation of the city from the Germans in August 1944. The plan of the garden is inspired the historical role of the Gare Montparnasse as the train station that connected Paris to Brittany and the Atlantic Ocean. One theme is that of a ship; the lampposts resemble the masts of sailing ships, and there are two elevated walkways on either side of the garden which resemble the bridges of ships. The visitor to the garden is supposed to feel like a passenger on a cruise ship surrounded by a circle of office buildings. In the center of the garden, surrounded by a lawn, is a small square called the Isle of the Hesperides, named for the legendary islands believed by the Ancient Greeks to be to the west of the Pillars of Hercules. In the "island" is a fountain, called the Fontaine des Hesperides, made by the sculptor Jean-Max Llorca, composed of several gigantic meteorological instruments for measuring the rain, temperature, wind and atmospheric pressure, surrounded by jets of water. On the east side of the garden are a series of small thematic gardens, with different types of vegetation: ‣ Salle des Plants ondoyantes. (grasses moving in the wind.) ‣ Salle des Humidites. (Aquatic plants.) ‣ Salle des Bleus and Mauves. (Flowers in blue and mauve.) ‣ Salle du Silence. (A secluded garden for meditation.) ‣ Salle des Rivages (Plants of the coast.) The large number of pine trees in the garden are also supposed to evoke the Atlantic coast of Brittany. The east side of the garden also has two pavillons, where visitors can climb to the roof and look over the garden.
The Jardin Atlantique is a public park and garden located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, on the roof that covers the tracks and platforms of the Gare Montparnasse railway station. It has an area of 3.4 hectares. It was created by the landscape architects Brun, Penna and Schnitzler, and opened…
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1 Pl. des Cinq Martyrs du Lycée Buffon
Paris, IDF