La Villette Park is a popular park in Paris designed by Bernard Tschumi. The park was completed in 1993 and since then it has gained immense popularity among people of all age groups. The park is constructed in three sections: the buildings, which are the landmarks of the park, the galleries on either side of the circular area and the meadows and the sports grounds. Altogether the La Villette Park in Paris is a splendid blend of natural scenery and stunning modern architecture.
This park proves to be one of the favorite retreats for children, who enjoy the abundance of opportunities to play various kinds of games. The "Parc de la Villette" as it is popularly known, is located in a very remote part of Paris, between the Porte de la Villette and the Porte de Pantin. The best way to reach La Villette Park is to head for the Porte de la Villette on line 7 or Porte de Pantin on line 5. Visitors coming with their private transport can park their cars at Cité des Sciences and Cité de la Musique.
The ultra-modern museum of this park is distinctly marked for its architecture. The structure is entirely made of glass and stainless steel. The bridges, underground walkways, transparent elevators and escalators charms the visitors with its elegance and uniqueness. This museum has been designed in a way to project the "city of the future". The relaxing La Villette park was earlier the central slaughterhouse and livestock market. Later this project was motivated and thus a park of 55 hectares, surrounded by canals was created. The key attractions of La Villette Park include the Cité des sciences or Paris technology museum, the Grande Halle, the Zenith (famous rock concert hall), the Géode hemispheric movie theater, the Paris national music school and the Cité de la Musique.
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La Villette Park is an urban project accommodating a museum for sciences and industry, a large market, the room offering the spectacular view of Zenith and the city of the Music. The historical surrounding of the park adds to the beauty of the place. The Park of the Villette is an active and open space with several venues for meetings, cultural shows and leisure activities. It is also a place for exhibitions, communication, documentation and research. "Explora", is a permanent exhibition held at this open area. This exhibit is classified into 3 main themes. Firstly, the importance of water in human life, which is demonstrated through an illustration of the water jammed area surrounding the Cité des Sciences. The vegetation area is the second theme defining the bio-climatic zone of the atmosphere. The third theme is light, which is demonstrated through two rotating cupolas.
The Cite des Sciences is the most frequented area of this park. Demonstrations on various subjects of daily experiences are made through robots, sounds, space, mathematics, computer, science, energy, light, the environment, oceans, expression and behavior. These multimedia displays, interactive computers, videos and animated models are both exciting and educative for the kids. The planetarium, called the Cinema Louis Lumiere features a stereo-scopic film at 11:30am, 2pm, 3:30pm, 4pm and 4:30pm. Some other exhibits in this park include the Argonaute, Geode and Cinaxe. The park houses several cafés.
The Parc de la Villette possess 10 thematic and well maintained gardens loved by both adults and kids, namely the Dragon garden, Bamboo garden, Mirror garden, Fog garden, Dunes garden, Wind garden and all. La Villette Park is open daily from10am to 6pm on weekdays and from 10am to 7pm on Sundays. The park remains closed on Monday, 1st May and 25th December.
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