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Cultural Sites -
gardens in France
Great gardens of France
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France offers you
a whole range of images, characters, fragrances, architecture
and exotic plants. You will find the chateaux of the Loire
surrounded by their individual gardens: Chenonceau, Langeais,
Ussé, Villandry.
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Paris area / Ile
de France |
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Do not miss the
Jardins de
Bagatelle, the Kahn
gardens, or the Park of
Saint-Cloud. If you follow the chateaux you
will find the gardens are superb.
Versailles, of course,
but also Fontainebleau,
Vaux le Vicomte,
Breteuil,
Thoiry
and the Park of Courson.
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Aquitaine -
Bordeaux Area, Southwestern France |
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The
Aquitaine
welcomes you to the gardens of the
Château de Hautefort
with its terraces built on former moats, to the
Villa Arnaga in
Cambo-les-Bains with its waterfalls, rose garden and
orangery, and to the public gardens in
Bordeaux. One cannot
emphasize enough the beauty of the Pyrenees scenery in
the
Park of the Château de Laas.
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Burgundy/Bourgogne - Between Paris and Lyon, Eastern France
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See, in
Burgundy, the
gardens of the abbey of
Fontenay laid out behind the monastery and
the abbey
of Bussière-surOuche,
the garden of
l'Arquebuse in Dijon, and the garden of the
Château de Cormatin
evocative of the period of Henry IV with its maze of
clipped box, the surprising
Folie du Domaine
Chandon de Briailles, the water-garden of the
Château
de Châtillon-en-Bazois,
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Loire Valley
- Southwest of Paris |
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The
Loire Valley/Château Country
offers a great variety of gardens, often in
connection with the famous châteaux.
Here you will also find the
International Parks,
Gardens and Landscape Conservatory (address:
Château farm, 41150 Chaumont-sur-Loire - Tel: (33)
2.54.20.99.22, Fax: (33) 2.54.20.99.24).
The Conservatory has its home in the 19th century model farm
next to the Château de Chaumont. A unique institution in
Europe, its activities include all areas of landscape
gardening. It is an international showcase for the cultural
policy of France's Centre region. It is also an important
meeting-point for landscape gardeners, especially during the
yearly Garden Festival (mid-June to mid-October).
Some of the Conservatory's objectives include the
dissemination of information and know-how, keeping abreast of
technical innovations, offering an elaborate training program
related to plants, as well as opening up projects to the
social, economic, technical and cultural context. These
objectives are aimed at students and those who attend training
seminars, technicians or those in charge of local
organizations, managers of large landscaping companies, public
works managers and amateur gardeners. Classes are held in the
recently refurbished farm buildings which also welcome
visitors.
Visit the
Park of Apremont,
between the town of Apremont and its chateau, the
Maison Picassiette in
Chartres, the
Art-Déco gardens in
Bourges.
The
Pays de la Loire
with the rose garden of
Doué la
Fontaine, the garden of the
abbey of Fontevraud
and also the Eastern-style gardens of
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Limousin,
Central France |
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In the
Limousin,
Beaumont-du-Lac,
the Parc Vassivière
and the gardens of the
Bishops' Palace
in Limoges, above the valley of the Vienne.
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Normandy -
North West of Paris |
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A thousand
gardens in Normandy...the
Jardins des Plantes
in Caen to be found at the top of a former stone quarry
and especially, in
Giverny,
the garden of Claude Monet with its profusion of
color and famous white water lilies. In
Varengeville, a wealth of the maples Japanese are
to be found in the botanical garden of
Moutiers which extends down towards the sea...
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