With just a few days to go before the arrival of spring on March 20, 2026, after a winter marked by particularly cold and gray weather in Paris. While Paris and the Île-de-France region offer us a thousand springtime delights, such as the world’s oldest rose garden with its 3,000 varieties of roses in the Val de Marne, we also dream of getaways and a change of scenery. Just two hours from Paris, art lovers can visit a Garden of Eden adorned with more than 500,000 multicolored tulips, making it the largest tulip garden in France. But how about letting yourself be enveloped by thousands of brightly colored flowers in the heart of Europe’s largest tulip field?
7 million multicolored flowers carpet this veritable Garden of Eden
Keukenhof is not just a stunning backdrop for your photos and Instagram feed. It is also, and above all, a stroll through nature to celebrate renewal, beauty, and blossoming. A total of 7 million spring-flowering bulbs are on display. Colorful sculptures and other works of art blend beautifully into the landscape, adding an even more dreamlike dimension to the park. Walking through the paths of this unique botanical garden, you’ll discover no less than 800 varieties of tulips and nearly 1,600 multicolored bulb plants such as daffodils, hyacinths, irises, and roses. And that’s why this getaway is the most beautiful spring stroll…
A rainbow-like ribbon of tulips in the heart of the world’s most beautiful spring park
In total, a rainbow-like ribbon of 7 million flowers reveals itself to lovers of beauty, making this garden undoubtedly the most beautiful spring park in the world. This marvel of nature can be found in Keukenhof Park, more precisely in Lisse, in the Netherlands. In 2026, this beautiful botanical garden will be open from March 19 to May 10. And for those who love exotic getaways, this Dutch Garden of Eden is easily accessible from Paris: it takes about 4 hours by train or just over an hour by plane to Amsterdam, then only 30 minutes more by car or bus to reach your destination.
Keukenhof Park, 32 hectares of beauty to admire, just a few hours from Paris…
In total, Keukenhof covers around 32 hectares, making it one of the largest flower gardens in the world. Its botanical diversity is incredible and the park also offers many family activities. You can explore the colorful paths by bike with the wind in your hair, or admire the ribbons of color from the water by boat. You can even discover a windmill dating from 1892, whose sails spread out across the blue sky, and climb to the top for a panoramic view of colorful flowers stretching as far as the eye can see. Keukenhof is also a paradise on earth for children, with a small farm where they can discover grazing animals, a maze where they can happily lose themselves, and a playground designed especially for them.
Flower-lined paths, hedge mazes, ponds, sculptures, fountains… If this isn’t paradise, it’s pretty close. When is the best time to marvel at this almost unreal picture-postcard setting ? In mid-April, when the tulips are in full bloom and the spectacle is simply extraordinary.
Address: 📍 Stationsweg 166A 2161 AM Lisse
Dates: 📅 March 19 to May 10, 2026
Opening hours: 🕝 From 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.