2024

ARBORETUM

Parks and gardens
With almost 150 species, this charming arboretum features water features, ... Read more
2024

DEPARTMENTAL DOMAIN OF FERTÉ-VIDAME

Parks and gardens

Experience the excesses and splendour of the Age of Enlightenment in this vast park at française  ! It was here that Saint-Simon retired to write most of his memoirs. Parks and gardens, canals and waterways, openings and perspectives make up a fascinating landscape steeped in history. Here feelings of grandeur and decadence mingle with modesty, so much the weight of the place crushes you and elevates you. A romantic ruin set in the middle of all perspectives, the colossal neoclassical castle was decorated by the greatest artists of the time. Designed by the Marquis de Laborde, great financier and banker at the court of King Louis XV, it is displayed on 160 m which have not lost any of their former splendour.

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