Paris with children

The Garden of the Dragon is just one of the big attractions that the futuristic science city of the Parc de la Villette (http://www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/cite-des-sciences/) offers for children, located a tad disconcertingly in remote times to come such as the end of ’2001: A Space Odyssey’. The fantastic and colossal slide in the shape of the legendary mythological monster is there to attract attention with its fabulous places such as the Wind Garden and the Dunes Garden, the Garden of Islands, the Bamboo Garden, the Mirror Garden and the unforgettable argonaut submarine.

Inside the city of science and industry at the Parc de la Villette there’s still another city for children, designed and planned to help them discover and unfold the world that surrounds them, a highly technological world in this case, thanks to a broad activity programme.

Another of the favourite places for children s the visionary, industrialist and colourful architecture of the Centre d’Art Pompidou, that also has a wide, varied and highly stimulating range of activities for the younger ones.

It’s in some way unavoidable that one of the favourite parts of the museum is its exterior, not only in virtue of the imaginative and evocative architecture of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano but especially the famous source of mobile polychrome machine structures of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, one of the main representatives of the so called kinetic art and dada metamechanic, known by the name of Stravinsky Fountain or the Automaton Fountain.

Less so mechanically automaton, although it does have a bit of that ambiguous nature, and perhaps more so metallic colossus is the famous Eiffel Tower, despite being received in 1889 with highly derogatory comments by most Parisians, among them the reputable artists of the time. For a long time it has been one of the world’s most visited monuments and also a children’s favourite, since they enjoy the impressive views that its nearly 1000ft offer just as much or even more than the adults. So much so that the tower itself organizes special children tours that have been very successful.

Despite the predilection that the surrealists had for it (or even because of precisely that, that in the child’s world, the unconscious happily free flows) the Grevin wax museum is another place where to spend a nice time with the children, because there they’ll find, in its unforgettable planet, a figure of the Little Prince accompanied by the fox and the rose, modeled especially by Stéphane Barret, using 3D technology.

Paul Oilzum

And for the comic book lovers, how could they miss a visit to the most famous and ancient French character at Parc Asterix, the second biggest theme park in France that will delight children and adults when they rent apartments in Paris

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