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Article: The secret gardens.(Paris, France)
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- Europe
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Paris is a city made for strolling. On foot, you can cross it in less than three hours and along the way discover sights that stay hidden from visitors on four wheels. Besides the overall harmony of its splendid architecture, the broad boulevards, and the Seine winding through its middle, Paris is a colorful patchwork of individual delights. A pervasive green motif is supplied by 400 squares, parks, and gardens scattered throughout the city, some written up in every tourist guide; some so secluded that not even Parisians know them well.
The two wooded parks that border Paris, the 2,224-acre Bois du Boulogne on its western edge and the equally vast Bois de ...