Jardins de l'Abbaye de Fontenay

Park and garden
Fischteich
Springbrunnen
Simple / medicinal plants
Rosengarten
Botanical garden
Park
Pleasure park
Botanical garden
Pleasure garden
Park
French style
English style

RD32, 21500 Marmagne

Jardins de l'Abbaye de Fontenay — ©Abbaye de Fontenay © Frédéric Dupin

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After discovering the abbey, a UNESCO World Heritage site, visitors can now linger in the grounds and wander freely in the two-hectare park, with its century-old trees, its trout pond and its large formal garden where the last scenes of "Cyrano de Bergerac" were filmed. Since 1997, the entire park has been embellished and transformed into a landscape garden by landscape architect Peter Holmes. The plantings have now reached maturity and visitors can admire a wide variety of roses, viburnum,...