Visit of the Palais du Luxembourg, the Petit Luxembourg and the greenhouses of the Jardin du Luxembourg

Name: Visit of the Palais du Luxembourg, the Petit Luxembourg and the greenhouses of the Jardin du Luxembourg
Start: 2022-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Sénat - Palais du Luxembourg, hôtel de la Présidence

Visit of the Palais du Luxembourg, the Hotel de la Présidence du Sénat (Petit Luxembourg) and the greenhouses of the Jardin du Luxembourg

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

Photo Sénat © Sénat

Visit of the Palais du Luxembourg, seat of the Senate, including the Library and its Annex, the Conference Room, the Session Room, the Staircase of Honour or the Queen’s Room.
Visit of the hotel of the Presidency of the Senate (the "Petit Luxembourg") with notably the salons of Boffrand, the office of the President of the Senate, or the chapel of the Queen.
Visit of the greenhouses of the Jardin du Luxembourg, with workshops presenting the fruit collection or the orchid collection.

About the location

Sénat - Palais du Luxembourg, hôtel de la Présidence

Place Paul-Claudel 75006 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Seat of the Senate, one of the two parliamentary assemblies with the National Assembly, the palace of Luxembourg was built from 1615 by Salomon de Brosse to be the palace of Marie de Medici, Henri IV’s widow, who wanted to find the architecture of the Pitti Palace in Florence where she had spent her childhood. This palace was in turn a royal residence, a revolutionary prison, then the seat of executive power briefly after the Revolution. The present hemicycle (or hall of sittings) was built between 1836 and 1841 according to the plans of Alphonse de Gisors. The palace has been home to the Senate of the Republic since 1879.
The Luxembourg Palace takes its name from the Duke of Piney, François de Luxembourg, who had acquired a hotel built in the middle of the 16th century. The hotel was enlarged and redecorated by Germain Boffrand between 1709 and 1716\. This hotel, now known as the Hotel du Petit Luxembourg, is the seat of the Presidency of the Senate.
The greenhouses of the Jardin du L