Explore Rocquencourt

A tennis complex in south-west Paris, built in 1928 and named after the World War I aviator Roland Garros, who made the first solo flight across the Mediterranean Sea. It hosts the French Open each May and June on clay courts, with twenty courts in total including Court Philippe Chatrier, Court Suzanne Lenglen and Court Simonne Mathieu.

The Jardin d'Acclimatation is a 19-hectare amusement park in the northern Bois de Boulogne, opened in 1860 by Napoleon III as a zoological and acclimatisation garden where plants and animals from French colonies were studied. It has operated as a family leisure park since the 1930s, with rides, gardens and a farm, and borders the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Aquaboulevard is an indoor and outdoor water park in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, with swimming pools, water slides, a wave pool and a sand beach area under a glazed roof. The same site also has tennis and squash courts, a gym and shops.

France Miniature is an outdoor miniature park in Élancourt, west of Paris, opened in 1991. More than a hundred French monuments and sites, from the Mont-Saint-Michel to Versailles, are reproduced at 1:30 scale across a landscape laid out like a map of France, with model trains running between them and rides for young children.

The Aquarium de Paris is housed partly underground in the Jardins du Trocadéro, facing the Eiffel Tower across the Seine. It holds around 500 species in some forty tanks, including sharks, jellyfish and coral-reef fish. The aquarium also runs a cinema and screens films under the name Cineaqua.

The Eiffel Tower is a 330-metre lattice iron tower on the Champ de Mars, built between 1887 and 1889 by Gustave Eiffel's company as the entrance arch for the 1889 World's Fair. Three levels are open to visitors, reached by lift or stairs, with restaurants on the first two floors and Eiffel's restored apartment on the top level.