Very soon Paris will be enveloped in a pink cloud of cherry blossoms. In general, to see Paris in bloom, all you have to do is go to Instagram. Believe me, all self-respecting bloggers will try to post their excellent photo of blooming Paris. But if you plan to see this spectacle with your own eyes, then save this article, in which I share the most popular, as well as secret places blooming Paris.

If you want to catch the cherry blossoms, then come to Paris from March 25 to mid-April. Of course the weather is unpredictable this year, but let's hope for the best. Read the article to the end! At the end, the most beautiful place where sakura blooms awaits you.

Popular places among tourists:

1. Near the Eiffel Tower.

2. Square next to Notre Dame.

3. Small (Avenue Winston Churchill) and Grand Palace(3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower).

4. Next to the famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore (37 Rue de la Bûcherie).

5. Jardin des Plantes (57 Rue Cuvier).

Secret places.

1. Square Gabriel Pierné (5 Rue de Seine).

2. Jardin Tino Rossi (2 Quai Saint-Bernard).

3. Square des Saint-Simoniens (151 Rue de Menilmontant).

4. Père Lachaise Cemetery (16 Rue du Repos).

5. My favorite is Parc de Sceaux. How to get to this park? You only need 40 minutes from the center of Paris on the RER (B) train. The easiest way to start your journey is from the metro stations: Luxembourg or Saint-Michel. Go to Parc de Sceaux station. A train ticket costs no more than three euros one way. It only takes 10 minutes to walk from the station to the park.

Park So is a huge territory (you can’t even imagine how huge it is... I would say gigantic), on which there is also a beautiful castle. In spring, more than 100 sakura trees bloom here. You can have a picnic here, as well as a fantastic photo shoot. Just remember that you need to bring everything for a picnic with you, since there are no shops nearby. On April 15, 2018, a holiday dedicated to cherry blossoms will be held. So don't be surprised to see girls in beautiful kimonos. Detailed information you can get information about the park's work

Still, there is a period when the number of tourists in Paris goes through the roof, although many people think that there is no rest here all year round)) This is the spring period of flowering of magnolia, sakura, camellia and other trees that just beg to be photographed. Now, more than ever, I want to have time to look at all the photogenic corners of the city and capture them, so that I have something to inspire on cold winter evenings. I've collected five for you beautiful places in Paris, where you get great photos - not necessarily in spring, but always with a good mood and smiles :)

SQUARE ON THE TERRITORY OF HOTEL DE VILLE

If you are facing the main Paris City Hall, the gate to this square is immediately on the right. You can’t easily get here whenever you want: only on weekends and holidays. It was not for nothing that I started the post from this place, because magnolias in Paris have been blooming since the end of February and are still not losing ground. And this is where you need to go to get beautiful shots for a long-lasting memory of your vacation.

PARK MONSEAUX

I'm talking about the entrance to the park specifically from Avenue Hoche. Tall gates with golden tips, cozy parked cars local residents and these houses that resemble a cake decorated with cream and whipped cream. Add here the spring greenery barely visible on the trees, the gentle sun and the silence of the beautiful, prosperous eighth arrondissement - take a camera, dress nicely, and go!

RUE CREMIEUX

Some filming takes place here periodically, but in 90% of cases out of a hundred there is silence, and there is no one at all. Rue Cremieux is a completely atypical architecture of residential buildings and their design for Paris. The facades here are painted in bright colors, some of them have birds, animals or blooming wisteria on them, as in the photo above. Paris is a city of beige and gray, and this street looks like a rainbow in a gloomy sky after rain.

GALERIE VIVIENNE

ECOLE MILITAIRE

The Eiffel Tower is one, but - a lot :) One of my favorites is from the Ecole Militaire, this is the very end of the Champ de Mars. There is never a crowd here, and at sunset on a clear day the sky is simply unrealistically beautiful. Snow-white paths, which leave a dense layer of dust on the shoes, will act as an ideal reflector, and the photographs will turn out light and fresh. Verified. More than once :)

It's raining in Paris today. Again and again. Spring this year is very similar to October. Only flowering trees indicate a systematic and slightly uncertain movement towards summer. I would like to hope that in a week it will be really warm, although the forecast confidently promises rain and more rain. However, even when it rains, Paris is very, very beautiful. The main thing is to arm yourself with a photogenic umbrella, and you can safely go to bright places in search of the right angle for postcard shots :)

Have you heard about the Japanese tradition hanami? Every spring, Japanese residents gather in parks to admire cherry blossoms. Incredible white and pink caps of flowers announce the arrival of spring and transform the landscape for several weeks. Given my love for nature, seeing cherry blossoms has become almost an obsession. Unfortunately, the Land of the Rising Sun is far away, and it is difficult to find tickets so that the dates coincide with the flowering period, which varies slightly from year to year. Fortunately, with the help of my beloved Flicker, I managed to find a breathtaking (I’m not afraid of this word) right next to Paris. cherry tree garden. All that remained was to wait for spring and good weather. I was lucky - everything coincided just perfectly. I went to four times So Park in the south of Paris, one of them just for reconnaissance, literally a week before the start of flowering. Almost a thousand frames were taken - many of them were almost identical, but it was simply impossible to stop. Usually nature photographs are dominated by green and blue shades, but this time your monitors will go crazy with the abundance of pink. If you notice at least a particle of Japanese contemplation in yourself, then welcome to the cat.

Park ensemble So ( Sceaux) is located approximately 6 km south of Paris, so in fact it can be considered part of the French capital. This is a spacious park in a classical style with a castle, spacious lawns, figured trees and bushes, fountains, ponds and a large canal, like in Versailles. I could write a separate post about So, but today I will tell you only about two small kindergartens, for which I actually came here, and for the first time.

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Gardens with cherry trees (or groves, as they are called in French gardening slang) are located along the Grand Canal. These are square plots of approximately one hundred by one hundred meters, fenced with bushes and trees. The first one has white flowers and is much less impressive. I accidentally learned of its existence by overhearing a conversation between an elderly couple.

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As you can see, even at the very peak of flowering, the tree branches seem bare, although there are quite a lot of white flowers.

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But the most interesting thing begins in the neighboring grove. Behind the trees there seems to be a pink fire raging.

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We enter the territory and the first thing we do is pick up the fallen jaw.

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Millions, billions of pink foam flowers hang on fine-serrated cherry trees. Here it is, hanami in French!

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The color pink is rarely found in such quantities in nature, so the brain initially refuses to process the information coming from the eye receptors.

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Sakura is an integral part of Japanese culture. The fragility of cherry blossoms is a metaphorical representation of the fragility of human life.

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Sakura flowers bloom for only a few weeks and fall off before they have time to wither. In the same way, any beauty in the world is ephemeral, and you need to have time to enjoy it while you have the opportunity.

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The Japanese, Chinese and other Asians come to So Park from all over Paris and the surrounding area to sit with the whole family under the cherry blossoms and remember their homeland.

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If on weekends in the morning the grove is still quite free and secluded, then closer to lunch it becomes difficult to find a free place.

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Everyone rests in their own way. Someone is reading.

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Someone is meditating.

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Someone is sleeping.

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Someone plays sports.

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Someone is learning horse riding.

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Someone is practicing using a sword.

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And someone is playing ball.

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Naturally, everyone writes on Twitter and Facebook, inviting friends to see the unprecedented spectacle.

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And of course, a lot of people take photographs.

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Or take pictures.

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Large groups gather under the bushiest trees for a picnic and informal communication.

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And pensioners do Asian exercises in the morning with some exotic name - for example, tai chi.

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The centuries-old tradition of picnics under flowering trees began with the ume plum blossom, but over time, sakura stole all the attention.

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Some children are too young to understand the unusual nature of trees.

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And others are already reaching out for beauty with all their might. Mostly girls, of course. Whatever you say, women are more contemplative than men.

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Great place for romantic dates.

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Even a trendy bar on top of a skyscraper overlooking the city lights can hardly compare with a garden of cherry blossoms.

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If you want to please your significant other, invite her to a picnic in So Park in early April. This is also a great place to propose to a girl - it’s hard to find a more romantic place.

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Or simply collect rose petals to decorate your room and create a romantic atmosphere at home.

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It is difficult to imagine how these lush, fleshy petals fit into the buds.

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On one of the trees one could simultaneously contemplate white and pink flowers. A separate experiment by a gardener, probably.

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It's hard for me to find words to describe all this pink madness. I'll just say that at the moment This is the most vivid (in every sense) impression of the year.

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A real Garden of Eden.

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I wish each of you to see something like this at least once in your life. Remember that beauty is short-lived, but its sources are varied and numerous. Looking for beauty in the world around us, feeding on it and being inspired by it is one of the paths to enlightenment.

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Have you already seen cherry blossoms? Have you been looking for pink flowers in spring? Have you been to Japan during the Hanami period?

How to get there: from Paris by train RER B to the station Parc de Sceaux, then walk (about 20 minutes).

Question one. When to go to Paris. If you ask it to Google, it will give you quite a lot of options and opinions on this matter. It all depends on what weather you prefer and what you want to see.

Someone dreams of blooming chestnuts and sakura, someone wants to try these same chestnuts roasted, someone thinks about the sweet sales periods, and someone wants to extend such a short St. Petersburg summer. Or maybe you want to attend some cultural event?

I was in Paris at the end of May, July and mid-September - each time, except July, was good in its own way.

The end of May is a time of stunning aromas of rose bushes, green meadows and very warm weather. But the roses are already fading, so if you dream of stunning photographs against the background of the same blooming sakura or delicate pink buds, you need to go early - in the second half of April - early May.

But if you want to run barefoot through the French meadows, wet your feet in the Seine, especially outside Paris, and inhale the rich aromas of sun-warmed roses, then the end of May is it.

There are a lot of tourists at this time, but if you know some points, you can still avoid the tourist crush.

July is scorching hot, crowds of tourists are rushing around Paris, and the Parisians themselves are busy packing their bags to go somewhere to Provence for a month. August is the period when the city is occupied by tourists, and the townspeople themselves occupy the coast Mediterranean Sea. Don't believe me? Look at the hotel booking site in January for the remaining rooms on the coast - almost all of them are already sold out at the end of July-August.

Therefore, you definitely won’t be able to drive me to Paris during this period.

September is beautiful - of course, no one guarantees you hot weather for all days, and it can rain, but for those who are accustomed to St. Petersburg September (in the absence of Indian summer), Paris will seem like a paradise in terms of weather. In 10 days it rained only twice, and then, after 11 pm, half of these 10 days we walked in light jackets, and half in T-shirts.

There are fewer tourists, but there are no greenery and flowers. In general, it seemed to me that planting in parks and gardens is done in such a way that at any time of spring and autumn something will bloom - some varieties of roses have faded, but others have opened... And such a feeling of constant flowering.

By the way, to the question of where to look at the weather forecast, I will answer - just not on gismeteo.ru. This wonderful site promised us winds and daily rains in Paris for 10 days of September, but I wrote above what actually happened.

My friend and I used this site http://france.meteofrance.com/ to find out the forecast for the entire trip, and then the weather in the cities we traveled to from Paris.

I haven’t traveled to France in winter yet, I think that everything is ahead, but some of the articles and photographs of travelers who were there in December are very impressive, the city is preparing for the holiday and it can be felt in every frame, real magic.

Therefore, to answer the first question “when”, you need to find the answer to the question “what” =)

And forward to the second question.

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For me, spring in Paris is associated primarily with roses. They personify the French spring itself. Like cherry blossoms in Japan. If you come to Paris in March or April, you will understand what I'm talking about. Roses are beginning to bloom everywhere - in gardens, parks and flower beds. Some are even ancient shrubs that have been here for a long time.

Roses spread a simply amazing aroma through the streets of Paris. But it’s not only good to go to Paris in the spring. There are other areas where you can safely go during this period. or Aquitaine are also ideal for visiting during this period. I also liked this time in France because the weather was ideal for me - not very hot, but also moderately cold.

Another reason why you should go to France in the spring is the small number of tourists, wherever you go this year. amazing country. In the summer at Versailles or Disneyland, prepare for queues that are many kilometers long (and I'm not exaggerating!), but in March or April you can expect queues that are not so long.

France in March

In March, I was already calmly walking around the streets of Paris in a T-shirt and simple jeans. Sometimes there may be light spring-like rains, but they are rare and bring some pleasant coolness.

General weather characteristics

The cold winter season is slowly losing ground and giving way to warm weather. As elsewhere, in big cities the temperature will be much higher than in the outback. Daytime temperatures in certain areas of the country vary from +7 to +15 degrees. In the northern regions and ski resorts it could drop further to -3 in the evening.

A warm jacket and umbrella are a must-have in your suitcase if you're heading to France in March.

Where to go

This month is ideal for visiting the region and Paris in particular.

Paris

A wonderful city that didn’t open up to me right away. At first, when I started living there, I was indifferent to it, paradoxically as it may seem. Only a few months later I fell in love with this city.

Except purely tourist routes, I advise you to visit at least a couple of Parisian parks. I really loved Parc Monceau, next to the metro station of the same name, or Parc Butte-Chaumont.

Vincennes Castle and its park

If you take the first metro line to the very end, you will arrive at Vincennes Castle. It is well preserved along with its chapel. It was built because the hunting grounds of the kings of France were located here.

If you walk from the castle just a couple of minutes, you will come to a very beautiful park, which displays a wide variety of flowers and plants from all over the world. Some of them are kept in separate greenhouses.

I especially liked the Japanese gardens, which are specially kept in greenhouse houses. Peacocks walk among all this beauty.

France in April

Paris is getting hot and crowded this month. I advise you to go to the South, where the temperature is also +15, +20 during the day.

General weather characteristics

The temperature is already rising to +20, +25 in the south, but in the North - in Alsace and Lorraine it can still be cold - +10, +15. Still, you shouldn’t forget about the umbrella, since it may well still rain. Especially in Paris, which reminded me very much of St. Petersburg - you never know when it will rain, so you should always have an umbrella in your bag or backpack.

Where to go

April - good time to visit Provence and Corsica.

Provence

In April it is already quite comfortable to travel here with a small suitcase with summer clothes. Still, it is better to take some kind of jacket or warm sweater with you, since, like any coastal area, it is exposed to winds.

Aquitaine

The birthplace of the famous Gascon D'Artagnan, Aquitaine is a bright sun, many kilometers of beaches on the Atlantic Ocean, Bordeaux wines, and the spurs of the Pyrenees. When visiting this region, I would recommend starting with its capital - the city of Bordeaux, where there is a museum dedicated to local wines!

Be sure to visit Périgord - not far from it there is the famous Lascaux cave with cave paintings of ancient people. This is a small complex where you can see traces left by our distant ancestors.

If you are a fan of active tourism, then go hiking in the Pyrenees or try rafting on the mountain rivers of the area. The impressions will remain with you for a long time.

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What is France like in spring? These are impressionist landscapes and the freshness of blooming roses in the air. It was in the spring that I understood why impressionism, as a movement of painting, originated in France. At this time, everything here helps to awaken your creative potential. Want to check it out for yourself? Travel to France in the spring!