You will be collected by a guide who speaks English as natural first language, who will share with you expert knowledge of the historic and aesthetic details of the gardens you will visit. Your guide will drive you in an upscale vehicle to each of the different parks; and you will have ample occasion for pleasant walks through our selection of wonderful Paris parks.

Collecting you at your Paris address, your guide will drive you to your first stop in our tour of Paris gardens: Haussmann’s Butte Chaumont Park, created from gypsum quarries by landscape architect Alphand in 1860. Among other parks created by the Baron’s architects (Montsouris, Vincennes and the Bois de Boulogne among them), the Buttes Chaumont Park is the most visually dramatic and instills in the visitor an enchanted mirage-like feeling of having stepped into another world, exactly the effect that was intended for its users.

Your private tour of the gardens of Paris then departs for a park in a square where urban design was attempted for the very first time in all of the Northern Europe, the place des Vosges, which is also the oldest royal square of the City of Light. We then take you to a garden that started out as a real estate speculation and soon turned into a den of iniquity, even becoming the birthplace of the French revolution. Today it is one of the city’s most discreet, calm and alluring neighborhoods, the Palais Royal Gardens, where the world’s first restaurants appeared and where there is a nice selection of fine restaurants of many different sorts for an enjoyable lunch, even today.

Next our escorted tour of Paris gardens takes you to one of the most legendary parks in the world, created by Catherine de Medici, the Tuileries Gardens, birthplace of France’s greatest landscape architect, André Le Nôtre, who later redesigned it and the Champs Elysees that unfolds in front of it. Strolling though its formal pathways and admiring its remarkable ensemble of statues, you will be amazed to discover the magnitude of historic events that took place there.

The Luxembourg Gardens are the next stop in this guided tour of Paris gardens, one of the largest parks in the inner city, populated with its myriad statues and fountains, parks within parks, the first Statue of Liberty, an arboretum, fruit orchards and beehives—not to mention the human population of school children, students, perambulating mothers, nuns from near-by institutions, and the omnipresent Paris bourgeoisie.

The last part of this custom tour of Paris gardens takes you to a park within another park, the charming Bagatelle, located in the Bois de Boulogne, on the west edge of the city. The Bois de Boulogne’s extraordinary 2000 acres hints at the fact that it is a remnant of the primeval Rouvray forest that once blanketed the Paris-Rouen region of France. As a park, its history goes back to the 14th century, and it provides the setting for a smaller jewel of a park which was created to decorate a chateau built, on a bet, in the 18th century, the Bagatelle.