La Villette - the largest park in Paris. Interestingly it is not only its size (35 hectares), but the fact that his appearance put his talent stars of contemporary architecture. They built the famous cultural centers: Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris Conservatoire of Music and Dance, three large concert halls, Music City with the Museum of ancient musical instruments.

Here, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, from the XIX century located built during the time of Napoleon III, a huge slaughter and wholesale meat market. In 1974, they were removed from here and announced a competition for the best use of the territory. He won his preacher "architectural futility", a member of the Paris student uprising of 1968, Bernard Tschumi. He put forward the idea of ​​the park and realized avant-garde, dynamic and active.

The park opened in 1987 and quickly became a popular attraction of Paris, the center of attraction for Parisians and tourists. During the year it is visited by 10 million people. There are many cultural events of world level. The very same park attracts "architectural follies" inspired by the idea of ​​postmodern deconstructionism. In this vein, we worked here, developing the Tschumi design, best architects of our time - Christian de Montzampark Adrien Fensilber, Jean-Paul Morel, Jean Nouvel.

For example, in 1995 in the La Villette City Music Hall opened, consisting of a concert hall, an amphitheater, a museum of music, exhibition halls and workshops. Designed complex Christian de Montzampark, famous for his work in New York, Berlin, Luxembourg. Now La Villette finishes construction of the Paris Philharmonic Hall with classical and jazz music for 2400 seats. The design of the hall serves winner Pritzker Architecture Prize, Jean Nouvel.

The park is crossed by the channel Ourcq, Paris which supplies about half of the required water to it. You can rent a boat and ride on the channel. If you just walk in the park, easy to find ten themed gardens. In the Garden located tridtsatimetrovy Dragon Steel Dragon - it is very fond of children. Outstanding French landscape artist Alexander Chemetov created here an unusual, even for Paris bamboo garden.

Getting lost in a huge park impossible everywhere seen thirty-five extravagant brightly painted designs that are referred to as "nonsense." But for travelers who have lost each other, it is quite useful nonsense.