Parc Borély is located in the 8th district of Marseille, next to the Marseille Borély racecourse. It covers an area of 17 hectares, punctuated with sculptures and gardens of different styles: traditional Chinese garden, rose garden, botanical garden ...
There is also a parcel of '' English Garden ''. It is distinguished by sinuous forms. Beside, a garden '' à la française '' makes the contrast: it is composed in a more symmetrical and orderly way. The traditional Chinese garden was offered in Marseille by the city of Shanghai in 2004.
This space is also a place of culture. You can admire a famous work of the artist Jean-Michel Folon: "the man with birds". In 2008, a museum of decorative arts was created in Borély castle. It exhibits the Provençal culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, through different objects of daily life or decorative: tapestries, furniture, porcelain ...
Borély Park is a place of relaxation for the Marseillais but also the visitors of passage.
