Domaine du Rayol
The Domaine du Rayol is a French garden. It is located in Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer between Le Lavandou and Cavalaire in the Var department .
The property was created in 1910 by the businessman Alfred-Théodore Courmes as a retirement home. He created a park and a fruit and vegetable garden around the house. The couple sold the house to a real estate company, who converted it into a hotel. The park was sold in 1940 by the widow Thérèse Courmes to the aircraft manufacturer Henry Potez , who lived here during the Second World War. After the war, the site fell into disrepair as a summer residence, but could be saved from real estate projects.
Since 1989 the site has been owned by the Coastal Protection Authority (Conservatoire du Littoral). In the same year this commissioned the botanist and landscape architect Gilles Clément to redesign the park. Under his guidance and with the support of the botanist François Macquart-Moulin, the garden was restructured by the chief gardener Jean-Michel Battin.
He divided the park into several areas, in each of which he planted plants from an area of the world that have climatic conditions similar to the Mediterranean climate . Plants from the Mediterranean region, California, Chile, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand as well as China can be found. The existing planting of exotic plants in the park was partially used for this purpose. Another watered area shows subtropical plants from Central America.
The site also houses the buildings that were built at the beginning of the 20th century: the small manor that served as the first residential building, the Hôtel de la Mer, and the Villa Le Rayolet, built between 1925 and 1940 by architects Guillaume Tronchet and Raoul Minjoz.
useful information
The opening times are: January – March and November – December 9:30 am-5:30pm, April – June and September – October 9:30 am-6:30pm, July – August 9:30 am-7:30pm. Open daily.
Admission costs: adults 11 euros, reduced for children and students: 8 euros. Families (two adults and children under 18): 26 euros. Groups (with registration): 9 euros per person. Children under 6 years: free.
The area is approx. 20 ha .
literature
- Alfred Werner Maurer , The most beautiful gardens on the Côte d'Azur , Philologus Verlag, Basel, 2007
Individual evidence
- ^ France: The world as a garden , ZEIT Online May 4, 2005, accessed April 25, 2017
- ↑ Plants that would otherwise never have met , NZZ Online April 16, 2010, accessed April 25, 2017
- ↑ Villa Le Rayolet , Conservatoire du Littoral (pdf 1 page, double.) Retrieved April 25, 2017
- ↑ Domaine du Rayol, Garden of the Mediterranean , Practical Information (as of April 2017), accessed April 25, 2017
Web links
- Bienvenue au Domaine du Rayol , website of the garden (French)
- Domaine Rayol , Website Alfred Werner Maurer (German)
Coordinates: 43 ° 9 '19.4 " N , 6 ° 28' 50.2" E