The apiary of the Luxembourg Garden does not only attract beekeepers in training, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Tourists also stop to immortalize the roofs of the 23 honeycomb-shaped hives. Australians, Europeans, Americans. To make the same hive back home. The place is laid out under the trees, surrounded by hedges, near the entrance Vavin gate. The chestnut trees, lime trees, orchards of the garden of 25 ha are also the happiness of these thousands of foragers. This historic apiary was created in 1856 in the nursery of the Senate by Henri Hamet, founder of the Central Beekeeping Society (SCA).
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