Le Grand Carrousel
Attraction
Family fun
Always
partying!
It's the king of the garden, the Napoleon of merry-go-rounds, a masterpiece of fairground art. Fancy a trip in a hot-air balloon? Would you rather ride a tram from the last century?
Ride a giant seahorse? Take to the skies in a biplane? On the back of a giraffe or clinging to a lion's mane, set off on an adventure!
Two floors
of surprises
and amazement
Built in the Aisne region of France, the Jardin d'Acclimatation's grand carrousel, heir to the great French merry-go-rounds of the 1900s, was inaugurated in 2018 and required more than 5,000 hours of work.
The carousel weighs 16 tonnes and is 10 metres high, with 32 subjects and 64 seats.
Its two floors, enriched with overmantels, paintings (on one of which you can see the Louis Vuitton Foundation), cornices, light bulbs and mirrors, have been fashioned in a retro-futuristic style known as steam-punk, reminiscent of the world of Jules Verne.
The traditional wooden horses and the whimsical troupe of the Grand Carrousel will make your head spin!
