Things to do in Oise, Hauts-de-France: The Best Gardens

Have a nice time with your family, in a historic park turned into a symphony of gardens. With major work , this listed park " Outstanding Garden " found his soul. As the 17th and 18th centuries , you will discover waterfalls and fountains, a flower garden , an exotic garden , orchards, topiaries ... In 2013, Yves and Annabel Bienaime create a real zoo : Throughout the walk , discover a conservatory backyard breeds ( rabbits, sheep, chickens, goats , pony, donkey, miniature horse , ...). You will assist with your children in activities: running rabbits, hens race and orchestra , the work of a dog). Big or small, simple walkers , keen on botany, gardening enthusiasts , painter or theater , you will necessarily seduced by Le Potager des Princes - Animal Park and Anime !

Emblematic garden of the Enlightenment, Parc Rousseau is intimately linked to landscape painting. During the walk, it reveals a succession of frames in a nature celebrated as wild. Its famous host, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, spent the last weeks of his existence before being inhume on the Isle of Poplars. Thereon it became a pilgrimage destination and many of its patterns have been mimicked.

Throughout the years, Henri Le Sidaner transformed a neglected orchard into a wonderful full-scale masterpiece of around 43,000 square feet. From the rose garden, wall-walk, tower, pergola, balustrade and statues to the little studio in the former barn where he made his sketches, the artist conceived it all minutely. To day, those gardens are labelled as "remarkable gardens". They are separate from each other, spread out over three stories and connected to each other by steep trails winding through the trees.