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Greenhouses to visit in France

The Verrière atlas lists 4 greenhouses in France, built between 1684 and 1895.

France preserves major milestones in the history of glass: the Orangery at Versailles (1684–1686), the Grandes Serres of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, among the world's first iron-framed glasshouses, those of Lyon's Parc de la Tête d'Or, and the Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne.

4Greenhouses
1684Oldest — Orangery of the Palace of Versailles
1895Newest — Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil
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All 4 greenhouses, oldest to newest

Orangery of the Palace of Versailles, Versailles
1684–1686

Orangery of the Palace of Versailles

🇫🇷 Versailles
Designed by Hardouin-Mansart to shelter more than a thousand of Louis XIV's orange trees in winter.
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Grandes Serres du Jardin des Plantes, Paris
1833–1836

Grandes Serres du Jardin des Plantes

🇫🇷 Paris
The secret backdrop for the imagined jungles painted by Henri Rousseau, the 'Douanier'.
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Great Glasshouses of the Parc de la Tête d'Or, Lyon
1877–1880

Great Glasshouses of the Parc de la Tête d'Or

🇫🇷 Lyon
Nicknamed the 'cathedral of glass and steel', they hold a cycad planted at the 1883 opening — the botanical garden's oldest resident.
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Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil, Paris
1895–1898

Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil

🇫🇷 Paris
The City of Paris's greenhouse garden, where plants for municipal buildings were once produced.
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