Carmel Gardens

Name: Jardins du Carmel
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Carmel - Maison du Patrimoine

Discovery of the different aspects of the Carmel gardens

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

Free visit of the gardens of the Carmel The gardens of the Carmel, nearly 9,000 m², testify to the monastic activity of the place since the beginning of the 17th century. Indeed, the gardens met the needs of the religious community: vegetable garden, orchard, novitiate garden, cloister, etc. You can also discover the two restoration projects of the vernacular heritage currently underway in the gardens (the former orchard brewery and the oratory).
Saturday and Sunday | 14H-18H Free

À propos du lieu

Le Carmel - Maison du Patrimoine

36 rue des Capucins - 80100 Abbeville

Somme
Hauts-de-France

The convent of Amiens that cannot any more face(deal with) candidates' influx, one decides on it to build a new in Abbeville. The first sisters Carmelites arrive from 1636\. After revolutionary period, the community settles down in the old(former) convent of the Capuchin friars, in the eponym street, in 1821\. Over the years, the nuns restore him(it) and transform it into regular carmel. Not be numerous enough any more to live in the building, they leave places in 1998, date to which the City comes purchaser of property. Today the Carmel finds a second life by becoming the House of Heritage.