Remarkable garden with 50,000 flowering bedding plants.
Labelled a remarkable garden, the Massey garden features 50,000 flowering bedding plants. You're sure to find it unforgettable. A veritable archway of lush, tamed nature, Jardin Massey is both the city's lung and its most precious heart. Amid its soft green lawns, winding paths are lined with centuries-old trees. Siberian elms, giant sequoias, large-flowered magnolias and maples cast their beneficial shade, some of them 150 years old. Two ponds and streams running over pebbles attract birds and turtles. Peacocks seduce passers-by and peacocks alike with their shimmering feathers in front of the architecturally beautiful orange grove. A small animal park with dwarf goats is a delight for the little ones, who also have fun in the play area dedicated to them. The bandstand comes to life in summer, and the cloister of Saint-Sever de Rustan, with its15th-century capitals, is a timeless site. Created in the 19th century by the illustrious botanist and horticulturist Placide Massey, it retains the precious romanticism of the director of the Parc du Trianon at Versailles, expressed magnificently in the great variety of rare species and essences. On his death, he bequeathed this 114,870 m² English garden and his home to the town of his birth. Now a public park, Jardin Massey is also home to the Musée International des Hussards, a magnificent building with Hispano-Moorish influences: a major site not to be missed.
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