Monceau Park

ATTRACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES AT PARC MONCEAU

WITH ALL-SMALL

• a playground (free) and a sandbox (in a secluded area) for younger children
• a merry-go-round and swings traditional (paying) open every afternoon,
• pony rides Wednesdays, weekends, school vacations and some public holidays
• a clown in the open air (except in case of rain), Wednesdays and weekends at 5pm. Break from November to April, then resumption

WITH CHILDREN

• skating and skating area (open at the same time as the Parc Monceau)
• bicycles are allowed in the Parc Monceau, but only on a dedicated area (adults and children). It is forbidden to cross the park by bike

PICNIC AND SNACK AT THE PARC MONCEAU

• a kiosk for small catering and for children's snacks: ice cream, waffles, drinks?
• large lawns for a picnic or simply ask

AND WITH MEDOR !

• The park Monceau in addition to being KidFriendly is Dogfriendly
• You can walk your dog (in theory on a leash), authorized on the Ferdousi lane and on the Comtesse de Ségur lane

TO EAT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR TO TAKE AWAY (FOR PICNICS)

• A very good Lebanese restaurant (on the spot or to take away): Rimal (94 bd Malesherbes)
• A good hamburger (on the spot or to take away): Big Fernand (12 avenue de Villiers)
• For their salads (on the spot or to take away): Jour (3 rue de Phalsbourg)
• In the Monceau park (next to the merry-go-round): pancakes, waffles, drinks
• Picnic authorized on all the lawns of the Parc Monceau

TO DO IN THE DISTRICT

• The Nissim de Camondo Museumfor the visit of a magnificent mansion
• The Cernuschi museum, if you are interested in Asian arts
• The Jacquemart André Museumvery nice museum of paintings in a beautiful mansion
• The shopping around the Place des Ternes
• The street of Levis for its typical Parisian market
• The Champs-Elysées are about 15 minutes walk from the Parc Monceau

A LITTLE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

• It straddles the 8th and 17th arrondissements, with an area of 8.25 ha
• A first park was built at the end of the 18th century. A second one was born (on the same site) under the Second Empire in 1860 (Haussmannian era)
• It is a very poetic and bucolic park, with the Rotunda, statues, colonnades and arcades
• Monet immortalized it He also inspired Georges Braque, Georges d'Espagnat and Gustave Caillebotte. It seems that Marcel Proust liked to walk there.