The Elegant Luxembourg Garden: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

Name: The Elegant Luxembourg Garden: A Self-Guided Audio Tour
Brand: VoiceMap
Rating: 5 (34 reviews)

60 minutes – 90 minutes

Paris, France

About this activity

Bask in 62 acres of historical and natural glory at this most Parisian park on a self-guided walking tour. Experience the magic of GPS-playback as you parade around the Left Bank's most elegant park.

Highlights

Saunter around Paris' prettiest park like a local while discoving its secrets and history
Hear from producer Gary Kraut who authored five travel guides to Paris and France and operates the award-winning travel e-magazine France Revisited
Do it all in an hour or linger at stops along the way with complete control over when you start and finish
Get unlimited use before your booking date and after it
Use the virtual tour option at home

Full description

The Luxembourg Garden is far more than the prettiest park in Paris — it’s also a way of life. With this VoiceMap tour, you’ll enter the gardens as a visitor, but you’ll soon saunter around them like a local.

While you walk with me, I’ll introduce you to its various elements — historical, natural, sculptural and sporting — while leaving you the freedom to partake as you wish in the lifestyle of the Jardin du Luxembourg. Yes, you may have passed by or even stopped in at all those wonderful pastry shops and stunning churches in the nearby Saint Germain and Latin Quarters, but you can’t truly know the Left Bank until you’ve spent time exploring the gardens’ 62-acres. My goal is to reveal their secrets and history so that you’ll be as at home here as I am as a Parisian.

When the weather’s right, all of Left Bank Paris passes through the Luxembourg Garden. And when the weather’s wrong — well, the weather’s never wrong in the Luxembourg Garden. Here, every sky and each season has its charms.

Along the way, you'll see and hear about:

• Illustrious women
• Mythological drunks
• A jealous cyclops and the queen who admired him
• The birds and the bees and the flowering trees
• A historic apple and pear orchard
• Signs of the German Occupation during WWII
• The patron saint of Paris
• The Paris meridian
• The Statue of Liberty

Though I’ve timed this as a 35-minute walk, I won’t be insulted if you turn me off every now and then to soak in the atmosphere, rest your feet, linger over a view, sit in one of the garden cafés or even nap on one of the inclined chairs.

Included / Excluded

Lifetime access to this tour in English
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
VoiceMap App for Android and iOS

Food/Drink
Smartphone and headphones
Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
Transportation

Meeting point

Start Location

20 Rue de Vaugirard, Paris, FR

Among the many entrances to the Luxembourg Garden, I've selected for the start of this VoiceMap the northeast entrance that is just behind the Odeon Theater and across the street from the corner of the streets Rue de Vaugirard and Rue Rotrou. The closest marked address is 20 rue Vaugirard, across the street from the entrance. The closest metro station is Odéon, about 500 yards away to the north of this entrance. The nearest RER (suburban train) station is Luxembourg, about 500 yards away to the southeast of this entrance.

Important information

Know before you book

The audio guide uses a mobile app.
You'll need to download the app and then use the voucher code provided to download the tour.
You'll need to use your own mobile phone and headphones.
The tour is only available in English.

Know before you go

You'll need to download the app and then use the voucher code provided to download the tour
The download should only take a few minutes to complete. If it takes longer, please cancel the download, go to Account, select Purchased and download the tour from there
Please remember to bring your own headphones and use your own mobile device
Please follow the download instructions included to download the tour.