The
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a public park situated in northeastern Paris, in the
19th arrondissement. Occupying , it is the fifth-largest park in (or near) Paris, after the
Bois de Vincennes, the
Bois de Boulogne (both located immediately outside Paris), the
Parc de la Villette, and the
Tuileries Garden. It was opened in 1867, late in the regime of Emperor
Napoleon III, and was built by
Jean-Charles Alphand, who created all the major parks of Napoleon III. The park has of roads and of paths. The most famous feature of the park is the
Temple de la Sibylle, inspired by the
Temple of Vesta in
Tivoli, Italy, perched at the top of a cliff fifty metres above the waters of the artificial lake.