My wife Julie, beneath a statue of Marguerite de Navarre (d. 1549), queen consort of France, in the Luxembourg Gardens. I’m so grateful to her that she insisted we get an apartment near the Luxembourg ...

Welcome to the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. Located on the border between Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Latin Quarter, the Luxembourg Gardens were inspired by the Boboli Gardens in Florence. They ...

If there's one thing you can spend hours upon hours doing in Paris, it's sightseeing. While this is what most travelers come to the city to do, it can be exhausting spending all day walking endlessly ...

Whenever I visit Paris, I make a point of strolling through the Luxembourg Garden, which—along with the accompanying palace—was commissioned in 1612 by Marie de Médicis, widow of France’s King Henry ...

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When you think of big cities like Paris, green spaces aren’t always the first things that come to mind. But the City of Light is full of plenty of beautiful gardens and parks, like the Jardin des ...