Paris
Jardin du Luxembourg
Distance: Runner's choice
Start and Finish: Runner's choice
The Luxembourg Gardens are great for all types of runners. Marie de Medicis had the park built to replicate her Florentine childhood home, after her husband Henri IV was killed. It is easy to get to whether you want to run from wherever you are staying or take a metro to one of several metro stops nearby and run from there. The 60-acre park is filled with fountains, sculpture, ponds, flowerbeds, tennis courts, a marionette theatre, playgrounds, and even bee keepers tending to honey bees. There are plenty of places to stop for a mid or post run snack so carry a couple of Euros with your keys. Sometimes you can see the Sorbonne students taking their lunch or working on projects out in the grass. The park is 2 miles around the perimeter but filled with paths to take up as much or as little time as you would like.
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