Jardin de la Folie-Titon, Urban park in 11th arrondissement, France.
Jardin de la Folie-Titon is an urban park in the 11th arrondissement of Paris with walking paths and open grassy areas throughout its grounds. The space provides distinct zones for different types of outdoor recreation within a residential neighborhood.
The garden opened in 2007 on the site of the former cité Prost, a group of homes and workshops demolished to leave a 7,800 m² vacant lot. It takes its name from the folie Titon, a wallpaper manufactory where the first hot-air balloon took off and where the Réveillon riots broke out in April 1789. A crafts building erected around 1880 on the old folie Titon grounds borders the garden and has been converted into housing.
The garden's name recalls the Folie Titon, a wallpaper manufactory where the first hot-air balloon flight took off and where the Réveillon riots broke out in April 1789. Today a shared garden plot and a pond sit alongside the central lawn, and the former workshop building from around 1880, converted into housing, borders the grounds.
The garden has three entrances: north between 26 and 28 rue Chanzy, south through the Cité de l'Ameublement, and east on rue Titon. Métro line 9 stops at Charonne. A paved walkway of grey stone slabs curves through the grounds, with a bench and a bin marked "papiers" along it.
The garden's name comes from the Folie Titon, a wallpaper factory that once stood in the area, where the first hot-air balloon took off and where the Réveillon riots broke out in April 1789. The site itself was previously occupied by the Cité Prost, a group of homes and workshops demolished to make way for the housing estate with a central garden inaugurated in 2007.
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