Paris today has more than
421 municipal parks and gardens, covering more than three thousand hectares and
containing more than 250,000 trees. Two of Paris's oldest and most famous gardens
are the Tuileries Garden, for theTuileries
Palace, and redone by Andre Le Notre in 1664; and the Luxembourg Garden, belonging to a
château built for Marie de' Medici in 1612, which today houses the French Senate. Source
