Visit of a picturesque private park

Name: Une promenade pittoresque à la découverte des chefs d’œuvre d’Ernest Chaumeton, artisan rocailleur en 1900
Start: 2023-09-16T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Parc du Domaine de Lavaux

Discover a unique testimony of rock art in 1900.

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

libre de droit

Discover a unique testimony of rock art in 1900.

During your walk, you will discover streams and artificial waterfalls, kennels, docks, walkways, caves, bridges, ducks, tree trunks that are remarkable creations in "trompe l'oeil".
Greeted by the owners of the Domaine de Lavaux, visitors will also discover very remarkable trellised fruit trees, planted at the beginning of the last century and maintained by the Association of Apple Eaters of the Three Provinces, which will be present to introduce amateurs to the art of maintaining and conserving old fruit trees. In addition, the splendid apiary on the edge of the forest built in 1900 is still in operation, and the bees produce a delicious honey thanks to the care provided by the beekeeper Ludovic Guilloneau who will explain to young and old the life and organization of the apiary.
At 14:30 and 16:30, the owners will personally welcome the visitors to present the Estate and lead two guided tours of the orchard garden.

À propos du lieu

Parc du Domaine de Lavaux

Route de Lavaux, 52700 Lafauche

Haute-Marne
Grand Est

With its route offering a view of waterfalls and ponds, fisheries, apiary and garden-orchard, the Lavaux Park, designed around a residence of the seventeenth and nineteenth century, is characteristic of the end of the Picturesque. It comprises a remarkable set of decorative works made of reinforced cement mortar giving the illusion of wood or rocks. They were created between 1908 and 1912 by the rock craftsman Ernest Chaumeton, from Creuse and silver medalist in his specialty at the Universal Exhibition of 1900\. Caves, kennels, piers, bridges, bridges, ducklings, trunks of trees are remarkable creations in «trompe l'oeil», imitating wood, bark, branches or stone. Located in the heart of an agricultural and forestry estate, testimony of an art of living in autarchy, the Lavaux Park pays tribute to the taste of an era at the crossroads of romanticism and technical innovation. The Domaine de Lavaux Park is thus a unique testimony in the Great East and the living memory of a domain organi