Editing Strasbourg (section)

===Parks===
[[File:Absolute Pavillon Joséphine 01.jpg|thumb|The ''Pavillon Joséphine'' (rear side) in the ''Parc de l'Orangerie'']]
[[File:Absolute Chateau de Pourtales 01.JPG|thumb|The ''Château de Pourtalès'' (front side) in the park of the same name]]

Strasbourg features a number of prominent parks, of which several are of cultural and historical interest: the ''Parc de l'Orangerie'', laid out as a French garden by [[André Le Nôtre|André le Nôtre]] and remodeled as an [[Landscape garden|English garden]] on behalf of [[Joséphine de Beauharnais]], now displaying noteworthy French gardens, a neo-classical castle and a small [[zoo]]; the ''Parc de la Citadelle'', built around impressive remains of the 17th-century [[Fortification|fortress]] erected close to the [[Rhine]] by [[Vauban]];<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archi-strasbourg.org/adresse-1_3e_Regiment_Tir_Algeriens_Place_Esplanade_Strasbourg-904.html?check=1&archiIdAdresse=904&archiAffichage=adresseDetail&debut= |title=Parc de la Citadelle with remains of the Vauban fortress |publisher=Archi-strasbourg.org |date=26 August 2007 |access-date=15 April 2010 |archive-date=5 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105145149/http://www.archi-strasbourg.org/adresse-1_3e_Regiment_Tir_Algeriens_Place_Esplanade_Strasbourg-904.html?check=1&archiIdAdresse=904&archiAffichage=adresseDetail&debut= |url-status=dead }}</ref> the ''Parc de Pourtalès'', laid out in English style around a [[baroque]] castle (heavily restored in the 19th century) that now houses a small three-star hotel,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chateau-pourtales.eu/cms/front_content.php?idcat=1&changelang=3 |title=Overview |publisher=chateau-pourtales.eu |access-date=12 December 2010 |archive-date=28 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728101001/http://www.chateau-pourtales.eu/cms/front_content.php?idcat=1&changelang=3 |url-status=live }}</ref> and featuring an [[open-air museum]] of international contemporary sculpture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ceaac.org/html/espace_public/pourtales/frame.htm |title=Overview |publisher=Ceaac.org |access-date=15 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204060533/http://www.ceaac.org/html/espace_public/pourtales/frame.htm |archive-date=4 December 2010 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The [[Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg]] (botanical garden) was created under the German administration next to the [[Observatory of Strasbourg]], built in 1881, and still owns some [[greenhouse]]s of those times. The ''Parc des Contades'', although the oldest park of the city, was completely remodeled after World War II. The futuristic ''Parc des Poteries'' is an example of European park-conception in the late 1990s. The ''Jardin des deux Rives'', spread over Strasbourg and [[Kehl]] on both sides of the Rhine opened in 2004 and is the most extended (60-hectare) park of the agglomeration. The most recent park is ''Parc du Heyritz'' (8,7 ha), opened in 2014 along a canal facing the ''[[Hôpital civil, Strasbourg|hôpital civil]]''.