Jardin des Plantes of Coutances
Today's Jardin des Plantes in Coutances ( Normandy ) is located on the site of a private garden laid out by Julien Rihouey since 1675. The Chateau de la Mare , the garden and the lands were owned by the Poupinel family from Quettreville for a long time before the French Revolution . Jean-Jacques Quesnel de la Moriniere bought the property in 1823. In 1852 he bequeathed the property to the town of Coutances with the condition that a museum and a botanical garden be set up there for the benefit of the people.
The retired pioneer officer and watercolor painter Adéle Sebastian Minel was commissioned with the design . It emerged Italian terraces , clumps of trees in the English style , a maze and fountains . An obelisk was erected in honor of the donor . The garden was completed in 1855 as one of the first of its kind and became the "model for public gardens in Normandy of the Second Empire " in the 19th century. Rare trees, lush flowering bushes, ornate flower mosaics and plays of light make this garden one of the most beautiful in Lower Normandy . It was inscribed on the list of national monuments of France in 1992.
Web links
- Site of the garden. Tourisme-Coutances.fr
- Jardin des Plantes de Coutances. Ulmer.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Jardin botanique (Jardin public), Coutances in Base Mérimée : "Prototype des jardins publics aménagés en Basse-Normandie sous le Second Empire."
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '50 " N , 1 ° 26' 51" W.