Parc Avenue, Amusement park in Lanas, France
Parc Avenue is a former amusement park on the site of an old airfield in Lanas, near Aubenas. Its long, single-storey concrete building, painted beige and covered in graffiti such as "Doyen", "SKET BADER" and "REFUSE D'ENTRER", stands on cracked asphalt. A yellow-framed tower with a white spiral water chute rises above bare trees at the end of a dirt path.
After a failed attempt to bring Eurodisney to the Ardèche, the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie opened Aérocity on an old airfield near Lanas on 16 June 1990. A Breguet 941S stood as the park's symbol and housed a cinema. Visitor numbers fell short of the 125,000 target, with 65,000 in the first year and 95,000 in 1993. The CCI sold the park in 1997; it went bankrupt and closed in 2002.
The site's name changed with its owners: Aérocity from 1990, then Parc Avenue from 2008. Its aviation theme came from the former airfield at Lanas, and a Breguet 941S stood as the park's symbol, housing a cinema inside the aircraft. Since closing in December 2014, the grounds have drawn urban exploration enthusiasts.
The park closed permanently in December 2014 and the site is abandoned; there are no opening hours or visitor services. Access is not authorised, and the grounds are used by urban exploration enthusiasts. The Breguet 941 aircraft left the site in 2015 for the Ailes Anciennes Toulouse collection.
The park's centrepiece, a Breguet 941 aircraft used as a cinema, was moved in 2015 to Ailes Anciennes Toulouse, an association preserving aviation heritage. Visitors to the abandoned site today find the concrete entrance covered in graffiti such as "Doyen" and "SKET BADER", while a yellow-framed water slide with a white spiral chute still stands among bare trees.
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