The Marais has no big park. It has five gardens, each a short walk from the next: a royal square, a Haussmann square, two gardens behind townhouses and one in a courtyard. Every one is free. Here is where each opens, when it closes, and which Le Marais tours walk through them.
The garden in the middle of the Place des Vosges is a public square with its own name: the Square Louis XIII, at 30 place des Vosges. The statue of Louis XIII stands at its centre. More than 150 lime trees and horse chestnuts line it.
The arcades round the square are open at all hours; only the garden inside the railings keeps hours. The Jewish history walk meets at the statue, in the middle of the garden.
The Square du Temple stands on the site of the Knights Templar's Paris enclosure. The order had its seat here until its dissolution in 1312. Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand laid out the square in 1857, during Haussmann's works. Since 2017 it has been named for Elie Wiesel.
It is the best garden in the quarter for a family. The covered market is a short walk along the same street.
The Jardin des Rosiers hides behind the street fronts between the Rue des Rosiers and the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois. It has two sections, joined by planted walkways, between 17th-century townhouses. You can enter from either street.
It is named for Joseph Migneret, head of the school on the Rue des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais from 1937. During the Occupation he hid Jewish children of the quarter, and Yad Vashem recognizes him as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
The garden behind the Hôtel de Sully is a formal one, with gravel paths and lawns in front of the orangery. It belongs to the Centre des monuments nationaux, which has its headquarters in the house. You can walk in free every day from 9:00 to 19:00.
Its best use is as a passage. Enter at 62 rue Saint-Antoine, cross the courtyard and the garden, and you come out in the Place des Vosges. It closes on 1 January, 1 May, 1 and 11 November and 25 December.
The Jardin Anne-Frank sits at the end of the impasse Berthaud, a dead-end lane off the Rue Beaubourg. It opened in 2007 in homage to Anne Frank, and an offshoot of the chestnut tree from her garden was planted in it. Its design draws on Le Nôtre, who laid out the gardens of the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan in the 17th century.
The Hôtel de Saint-Aignan houses the mahJ today. Check the Jardin Anne-Frank's hours on the city's site before you go: like every city garden, it changes them with the season.
You will cross at least one garden on most walks, because nearly all of them pass the Place des Vosges. The table lists the gardens, their entrances, the hours the city gives for September, and the walks whose itinerary names them.
| Garden | Entrance | September hours | Walks that pass through |
|---|---|---|---|
| Square Louis XIII, the Place des Vosges | 30 place des Vosges | 8:00–20:30 weekdays, 9:00–20:30 weekends | Most walks cross the square; the Jewish history walk meets at its statue |
| Square du Temple – Elie Wiesel | 64 rue de Bretagne | 8:00–20:30 weekdays, 9:00–20:30 weekends | None names it; it is a block from the Original Food Tours start |
| Jardin des Rosiers – Joseph-Migneret | 10 rue des Rosiers, and 35–37 rue des Francs-Bourgeois | 8:00–19:00 weekdays, 9:00–19:00 weekends | The Babylon walk |
| Hôtel de Sully garden | 62 rue Saint-Antoine | 9:00–19:00 every day, all year | Both full-meal walks, the Babylon walk |
| Jardin Anne-Frank | 14 impasse Berthaud | Not printed: check paris.fr | None names it |
The full-meal walks go through the Hôtel de Sully garden to the square; the Babylon walk stops in the Jardin des Rosiers.
Addresses, facilities and September hours are from each garden's page on paris.fr; the Hôtel de Sully from its own page; the Jardin Anne-Frank from the mahJ's leaflet, all checked 20 September 2026. The tours are from each listing's own itinerary.
Four hours on the Jewish history of the district, from the statue of Louis XIII in the royal square. Lunch at a falafel counter is on your own bill, and the minimum age is eleven.
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Two and a half hours on foot from Saint-Paul, eleven stops from the Jesuit church to city hall, and the Jewish quarter from the street. No food, twelve people at most, rain or shine.
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Three and a half hours from the tip of the Ile Saint-Louis to the royal square, eating a full French meal across at least four stops, with a seated main course and at least one glass of wine.
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Check AvailabilityNext: read about the square on things to do, see the Jewish quarter on its own page, or compare every walk on Le Marais Paris Tours.