PARC DE LA TETE D'OR
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Park with botanical garden, African plain and zoological park, Lyon's green lung and France's largest urban park.
The lungs of Lyon, the Parc de la Tête d'Or is the largest park in France located in the heart of a city. The Tête d'Or estate has belonged to the Lambert family since the 16th century, and its name refers to a mysterious golden Christ's head buried there. At the end of the 19th century, Senator Vaïsse, prefect and mayor of Lyon, decided to buy back the land in order to offer the people of Lyon a place of greenery and relaxation. Landscape architects Eugène and Denis Bühler were commissioned to design the park. The Croix-Rousse plant garden was soon transferred to the Tête d'or, and the zoological garden was created. Almost a century later, in 1964, Princess Grace of Monaco inaugurated the rose garden. Around a 16-hectare lake fed by the Rhône, the 110-hectare landscaped park extends. Groves of century-old trees and flowerbeds adorn the vast lawns, and winding paths lead visitors to the botanical garden, the zoological garden, the five-hectare rose garden and the woodland. The botanical garden, with its 15,000 plants, houses many original specimens in its glass and iron greenhouses. The large greenhouses are home to tropical plants, the aquarium hides the Amazon water lily and the Dutch greenhouse houses carnivorous plants. In the small, warm greenhouses, orchids and ferns keep each other company, while the small, cold greenhouses are home to horticultural flowering plants. A must-see park for any outing in Lyon.
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Très agréable pour petits et grands surtout lorsqu'il fait chaud..à l'ombre des grands arbres.