Jardin du rond-point de la Porte de Saint-Cloud

You are standing in the center of a traffic circle that occupies the site of a former defensive gateway into Paris. This spot is known as the Place de la Porte de Saint-Cloud, and it marks where the Thiers wall once stood as a fortification line in the nineteenth century. The garden you see today was created in 1928, specifically to replace the old octroi barrier where customs taxes were once collected on goods entering the city.