Atlantic Garden - a wonderful place that combines the achievements of engineering technology and landscape design. It was opened in 1994 on the roof of the Montparnasse train station - literally on the roof.

At the station, even the most modern, the person is in some tension: we must not miss the train, not to lose things ... And then rises to a height of vosemnadtsatimetrovuyu and find yourself in a quiet, green, beautiful place. And security - the designers have thought as a concrete platform to keep yourself in the garden three and a half hectares. The platform stands on twelve concrete piles; a layer of fertile soil in the garden - only 20 centimeters to the weight load is not too large. Large trees grow in special niches in the very piles. 130 holes in the platform provide good ventilation station and the car park located at the bottom.

A top - garden. Below it is quite unknown, and many can not even find it. On the boulevard and street Vaugirard Komandan Rene Mushot there are elevators, but the easiest way - on the stairs inside the station building.

As the train from here go to Brittany, the Atlantic Ocean, the garden named Atlantic. Landscape designers François Brun and Michel Pena issued its maritime-style: wooden walkways resemble the deck of the ship; everything is possible, undulating - track grates, benches, a lot of blue, white and purple colors.

Located at different levels, the garden consists of two parts - east and west. In the east - thick lush vegetation, nooks, mazes, five small theme gardens. Spikes of grasses, ferns grow lean weeping willows, the scent reminiscent of the maritime pine coast. The western part is not for romance, and meditation, there are playgrounds, five tennis courts, ping-pong table, a solarium (in its original meaning - that is, an open space for sunbathing).

In the middle of the central area of ​​the island is the avenue of the Hesperides with a strange construction works of the sculptor Jean-Max Llorka - fountain of the Hesperides. It consists of a giant meteorological instruments - thermometer, anemometer, rain gauge and weather vane - and a large rotary mirror, which should reflect sunlight into the pool fountain.

Basking in the sun and breathing in the floral scent, you can not be afraid to miss the train - through ventilation shafts can be heard almost everywhere the station announcement. And if you have time, a good idea to look into the Musée Jean Moulin - it is right there in the garden.