PARC DE LA VARENNE
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The park features an English garden, a French terrace and a Romantic-style château, as well as some remarkable trees.
Built on an old fortified house in 1506 by Pierre Merlin, auditor to the Duke of Bar, the architecture is sober, without sculpted ornaments: one is struck by the harmony of the proposals and the purity of the lines. At the four corners of the main body, pepperpot slate roofs cap fine watchtowers. The gable roof covered with scale-like tiles is as high as the façade. The two wings built in 1574 delimit the courtyard of honour closed by a baluster decorated with stone flower vases, itself dating from the 18th century. The dovecote, a royal privilege, adjoins the house, proud of its 3,000 boulins, witnesses to the wealth of the owner at the time. Inside in the vestibule, a remarkable and rare Renaissance coffered ceiling of carved stone, next to a monumental staircase with wrought iron banisters from the 18th century.
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