Tourist Information
In Paris's 5th arrondissement the Jardin des Plantes, the Botanical Garden, is waiting to be discovered. Guy de la Brosse and Jean Herouard, Louis XIII's physician, created this garden in 1635, originally to study botany for the benefit of physicians and pharmacists.
The Jardin des Plantes is one of the oldest natural history museums in the world. For the nearly 400 years, the Jardin des Plantes has been open to the public, it has stood out through its numerous areas: the geometric lines of the "carrés de la perspective", the school of botany, the Alpine garden, the ecological garden, the greenhouses, the cottage garden, the rockery and rose garden, the peony garden, the bird and bee garden, the iris and perennial gardens and the dinosaur garden - not to mention the paleontology and comparative anatomy gallery that is accessed via the Jardin des Plantes, and the unmissable zoological museum, the Great Evolution Gallery.
A walk through the Jardin des Plantes will amaze you with to its diversity and the amazing discoveries you'll make.
During your trip to Paris, France Hotel Guide can offer you a range of hotels in the area around the Jardin des Plantes, including traditional hotels, charming hotels, and budget hotels.
