Parc de la Cure d'Air, Urban park on Haut-de-Chèvre hill in Nancy, France.
Parc de la Cure d'Air is a garden on the Haut-de-Chèvre hill in Nancy, entered at 54 rue Marquette. It holds many varieties of apple and pear trees, and a straight unpaved walkway runs between two low trimmed hedges. A coin-operated viewing telescope stands outdoors behind a dark metal railing.
Abbé Girard built the present Cure d'Air Saint-Antoine building in 1900, together with a playground and two hectares of adjoining forest on the Haut-de-Chèvre hill. After the First World War the grounds passed to the Sisters of the Visitation. The park was reopened to the public in 1991.
The park's name comes from the Cure d'Air Saint-Antoine, the open-air convalescence building Abbé Girard erected here in 1900. The grounds hold many varieties of apple and pear trees, a reminder of the orchard use of the Haut-de-Chèvre hill above Nancy.
The entrance is at 54 rue Marquette, on the Haut-de-Chèvre hill above the city centre. The main walkway is unpaved and lined with trimmed hedges, so it can be muddy after rain; sturdy shoes help. A sign board stands along the path near the mid-ground.
The park keeps many apple and pear varieties, a reminder that the site was long worked as orchard ground on the Haut-de-Chèvre hill. The entrance is at 54 rue Marquette, and the grounds were attached to the Cure d'Air Saint-Antoine building erected by Abbé Girard in 1900.
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