The giant sequoias
American giants planted a century and a half ago — the town's largest living things.
Florian Pépellin — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Krzysztof Golik — CC BY-SA 4.0 · GFreihalter — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France — CC BY 2.0
The Pâquier is sun and open view; this is a small forest of shade. In summer: gardens at noon, green for the late afternoon and sunset. They adjoin across the Pont des Amours, so do not choose — take them in sequence.
No playgrounds — the value is shade, swans and waterline. The play areas are on the adjoining Pâquier. With little ones, treat it as a resting passage, not a long stop.
A monument to Berthollet, a great chemist born nearby. The 'Europe' name honours Annecy's continental twin towns — nothing more.
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The Jardins de l'Europe are a green tongue between the lake and the Thiou canal's outlet, planted in the nineteenth century in the English manner with hundreds of trees — among them a giant American sequoia, cedars and ginkgos, now grown to giants that shade the strollers below. They are the shady neighbour of the sunlit Pâquier: where the green is open to sun and view, the gardens offer paths between huge trunks, a calm waterline where the swans put in, and benches right on the lake shared by readers, elders and families. The Pont des Amours begins here, cruise boats moor at the edge, and the old town wraps around behind — making the gardens the green connector of everything you will do in Annecy.
American giants planted a century and a half ago — the town's largest living things.
The calm waterline where swans put in among the boats.
Lake on one side, canals on two — a garden ringed by water like an island.
Quai Napoléon III, 74000 Annecy