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What to do in Jardin-des-Plantes

In Jardin-des-Plantes, today.paris tracks 94 places with verified opening hours — including Grand Mosque of Paris, Église Saint-Médard. 27 terraces on the City's official register · 8 cafés · 32 restaurants near you today, with their real hours.

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Events near Jardin-des-Plantes

Monuments & viewpoints

The Grand Mosque of Paris, also known as the Great Mosque of Paris or simply the Paris Mosque, located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, is one of the largest mosques in France. It comprises prayer rooms, an outdoor garden, a small library, a gift shop, along with a cafe and restaurant.
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The Church of Saint-Médard is a Roman Catholic church located at 141 Rue Mouffetard in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. It takes its name from Saint Medard, the bishop of Noyon in northern France, who was protector of Queen Radegund, and helped her found a convent at Noyon to escape her abusive husb…
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Museums & galleries

The Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology (in French, galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie) is a part of the French National Museum of Natural History (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, MNHN). It is situated in the Jardin des plantes ('Garden of the Plants') in Paris near the gare d'Austerlitz train station.
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Restaurants in Jardin-des-Plantes

  • 🍽️Goûts d'ItalieRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 08:00–20:00 · à la carte — Website
  • 🍽️La Table d’HamiRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · 5 Rue Daubenton · ⏰ 12:00–14:45, 19:30–22:30 · à la carte
  • 🍽️Jardin doréRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 11:00–22:00 · à la carte
  • 🍽️CROUS Restaurant Universitaire Censier · Walking routeRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 11:00–14:00 · à la carte
  • 🍽️Ran Ya · Walking routeRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 11:30–15:00, 18:30–22:30 · à la carte
  • 🍽️Pho HanoiRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · 45 Rue Poliveau · ⏰ 12:00–15:00, 18:00–22:30 · à la carte
  • 🍽️OctantRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 12:00–14:00, 19:30–22:00 · à la carte — Website
  • 🍽️La Traversée de ParisRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · 45 Rue Poliveau · ⏰ 06:30–21:00 · à la carte — Website
  • 🍽️Les Petits PoisRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 12:00–14:00, 19:00–22:00 · à la carte
  • 🍽️Jardin des PâtesRestaurant · 5th arrondissement · ⏰ 12:00–14:30, 19:30–22:30 · à la carte

Bars in Jardin-des-Plantes

Cafés in Jardin-des-Plantes

Pâtisseries in Jardin-des-Plantes

Bookshops

Markets & delis

Parks & gardens

Where the street names come from

  • parvis Abdelkader Mesli — Abdelkader Mesli (El Khemis (Algeria), 1902 - Bobigny, 1961), former imam of the Grand Mosque of Paris, member of the Resistance.
  • square Adanson — Michel Adanson (1727-1806), botanist; near the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
  • place Bernard Halpern — Bernard Nathalie Halpern (Tarnów, 1904-Paris, 1978), French physician of Russian origin. Member of the Académie des Sciences (1964).
  • rue Buffon — Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788), French naturalist and writer, director of the jardin du Roi; near the Jardin des Plantes.
  • rue Censier — A corruption of rue Sans Chef, that is to say a dead end.
  • place Claude Sautet — Claude Sautet (1924-2000), screenwriter and director.
  • rue Cuvier — Baron Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier (1769-1832), French zoologist and palaeontologist; near the Muséum d'histoire naturelle.
  • cité d'Austerlitz — Laid out by the property company "Austerlitz".
  • rue Daubenton — Louis Jean Marie Daubenton (1716-1800), French naturalist; near the Jardin des Plantes.
  • rue de Candolle — Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841), Swiss botanist; near the Jardin des Plantes.
  • place de l'Émir Abdelkader — Abdelkader (El Guetna, Algeria, 1808-Damascus, 1883). A great political, intellectual and spiritual figure and a reformer of the State of Algeria. Named Grand Cross of the Légion d'Honneur by France.
  • rue de l'Épée de Bois — Former shop sign.
  • rue de l'Essai — Near the former horse market (on the trial side).
  • rue de la Clef — Former shop sign.
  • rue de Mirbel — Charles François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776-1854), botanist; near the Jardin des Plantes.
  • rue de Navarre — Named after the former collège de Navarre, now the École Polytechnique.
  • rue de Quatrefages — Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810-1892), naturalist; near the Muséum d'histoire naturelle.
  • rue des Fossés Saint-Marcel — The ditches that surrounded the bourg Saint-Marcel.
  • rue des Patriarches — Near the Patriarches market; this market was held in a house which had belonged to the Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Patriarch of Alexandria.
  • rue Dolomieu — Déodat Guy Sylvain Tancrède Gratet, Marquis de Dolomieu (1750-1801), geologist; near the Jardin des Plantes.
  • rue du Fer à Moulin — A former sign showing a fer à moulin, or mill iron.
  • rue du Gril — Former shop sign.
  • rue du Jura — Mountain range between France and Switzerland.
  • impasse du Marché aux Chevaux — Near the former Marché aux Chevaux.
  • rue du Marché des Patriarches — Runs alongside the marché des Patriarches.
  • place du Puits de l'Ermite — Near the rue du Puits de l'Ermite: near a public well; Adam l'Hermite lived in the street in the 17th century.
  • rue du Puits de l'Ermite — Near a public well; Adam l'Hermite lived in the street in the 17th century.
  • rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire — Etienne Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844), zoologist; near the Jardin des Plantes.
  • rue Georges Desplas — Georges Desplas (1856-1922), deputy and municipal councillor for the arrondissement.
  • rue Gracieuse — The Gracieuse family lived in this street in the 13th century.
  • passage Jaillot — Jean Baptiste-Michel Renou de Chavigné, known as Jaillot (Paris, 1710-Paris, 1780), lawyer, ordinary geographer to the King, author of numerous documents and maps of Paris.
  • rue Lacépède — Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville, comte de Lacépède (Agen, 1756-1825, Epinay-sur-Seine), French naturalist and writer; in the vicinity of the Jardin des Plantes.
  • rue Larrey — Baron Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842), French military surgeon, member of the Institut d'Egypte; district where the names of scholars have been grouped together.
  • rue Malus — Etienne Louis Malus (1775-1812), French physicist; district where the names of scientists have been grouped together.
  • passage Maurel — M. Maurel, property owner.
  • place Monge — Near the rue Monge.
  • rue Nicolas Houël — Nicolas Houël (1520-1584), French apothecary and writer, founder of the Maison des apothicaires, which became the Faculty of Pharmacy.
  • rue Ortolan — Joseph Louis Elzéar Ortolan (1802-1873), French jurist.
  • rue Oudry — Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), French animal painter and director of the Gobelins manufactory; near that establishment.
  • rue Pestalozzi — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, known as Jean Henri Pestalozzi (Zurich, 1746-Brugg, 1827), famous Swiss educator; near the Ecoles district.
  • rue Poliveau — A corruption of rue du Pont Livaut; that earlier name came from a small bridge crossing the Bièvre.
  • boulevard Saint-Marcel — Crosses the former Saint-Marcel district, which owed its name to the church of that name.
  • rue Saint-Médard — Near the church of Saint-Médard.
  • rue Santeuil — Jean-Baptiste de Santeuil or Santeul (1630-1697), canon of Saint-Victor, author of Latin poems; near the former Saint-Victor abbey.
  • rue Scipion — Scipion Sardini, an Italian financier, had a private mansion built on this street in the 16th century.
  • place Valhubert — Jean Marie Mellon Roger, known as Valhubert (1764-1805), major general, killed at the battle of Austerlitz; near the pont d'Austerlitz.
  • rue Vésale — Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), the celebrated Flemish anatomist; near the former Hospice Scipion.

Source: City of Paris, official street names (ODbL).

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