The Square de la Montgolfière features a distinctive, life-sized bronze sculpture of a hot air balloon basket hanging from a tree. This small park sits on the site of a former laundry, a business that relied on the natural springs flowing through the Butte-aux-Cailles neighborhood. In seventeen eighty-three, the Montgolfier brothers launched the first manned balloon flight from the nearby Jardin de la Muette, and this square serves as a permanent memorial to that early feat of engineering in the heart of Paris.
square de la Montgolfière
park garden