Parc de la Colombière, 17th century public park in Dijon, France

Parc de la Colombière is a 33-hectare wooded public park in Dijon, laid out as a French formal garden. Sixteen avenues, eight wide and eight narrow, radiate from a central roundabout toward the castel facade, joined by an octagonal path that skirts the grounds. Wide gravel walks and lawns are lined with tall trees, with low wooden benches at the grass edges.

Louis II de Bourbon-Condé, Prince of Condé and governor of Burgundy, created the private park in 1672 beside the Ouche. His son Henri Jules de Bourbon-Condé, Duke of Enghien, continued the layout with the landscape gardener Antoine de Maerle, a pupil of André Le Nôtre, and built the Castel de la Colombière across the river, linked by a footbridge. The park became national property at the Revolution and was bought by the city of Dijon in 1800; it was classified as a monument historique in 1925.

The park's name comes from the castel de la Colombière built by Henri Jules de Bourbon-Condé across the Ouche, linked to the grounds by a footbridge. In 1955 the 17th-century Temple d'Amour from the château de Bierre-lès-Semur was re-erected here after mayor Kir acquired it. Since 1970 the far end has held lawns, children's play areas and enclosures for poultry and ornamental birds.

The main entrance on the north side reuses the 1843 gate and pavilions of the old place Saint-Bernard tollhouse. Sixteen paths radiate from the central roundabout, so the roundabout is the simplest reference point; an elliptical riding path traces the park's edge. The 33 hectares are flat and gravel-surfaced, with benches along the lawns.

The Roman road of Agrippa, built in the 1st century to link Langres and Chalon-sur-Saône, crossed the park's grounds; its vestiges were found there, not in a tunnel beneath the paths. The park itself was laid out from 1672 for Louis II de Bourbon-Condé, governor of Burgundy.