Parc Phœnix

This guide to Parc Phœnix in Nice starts with the mosquito-ridden marsh that stood here until a 1990 city project buried it under thousands of tons of earth and rock. It follows the choice to name the reclaimed garden after a bird from legend, and the vast faceted greenhouse built to hold several invented climates side by side. Along the way you'll hear about a sequoia planted in 1989 to mark two centuries since the Revolution. It's a walk framed as one swamp's deliberate death and rebirth.