Parc Sainte-Périne, Municipal park with gardens in 16th arrondissement, France.
Parc Sainte-Périne is an urban park in the 16th arrondissement of Paris with grassy areas, walking paths, and numerous trees such as maple, ash, and chestnut. The space offers different sections for strolling and sitting beneath the foliage.
From 1109 until the Revolution, the land belonged to the abbey of Sainte-Geneviève and served as a country residence for its monks. Sold as national property, it passed through several owners and was split up before the comtesse d'Aubusson's daughters ceded it to the Assistance publique in 1858, when the Sainte-Périne institution from Chaillot moved in. Ponthieu built new buildings from 1860, and in 1977 the classified green space was given to the City of Paris.
The park takes its name from the neighbouring Sainte-Périne institution, whose main entrance is at 17 rue Chardon-Lagache. Since 2021 the 16th arrondissement has held a summer stage here, created for the 400th anniversary of Jean de La Fontaine's birth with about fifteen free shows, and repeated each year since. In 2024 it hosted a local festivities site for the Olympic Games.
Entrances are at 114 ter avenue de Versailles and 41 rue Mirabeau, served by metro line 10 at Chardon-Lagache and RER C at Javel. The park has two drinking-water points, two picnic tables, two playgrounds with two sandpits, a dog area (dogs on leash elsewhere), dry toilets and adult fitness equipment added in 2019. Only some areas are accessible to people with reduced mobility, and opening hours are regulated.
The park's wooded northern and southern edges are kept dense as a biological reservoir for the neighbourhood; bat species have been recorded there. The central lawns and paths are landscaped, but these side zones were deliberately left wilder when the park was enlarged from 2 to 3.7 hectares.
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