Guided tours and meetings at the Potager du Roi

Name: Visites guidées et rencontres au Potager du Roi
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: ENSP - Potager du Roi

The King’s Vegetable Garden, the base of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage, is an ecosystem limited by high walls, presenting on its 9ha scale situations similar to those of large...

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

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École nationale supérieure de paysage

The King’s Vegetable Garden, the base of the National School of Landscape Studies, is an ecosystem limited by high walls, presenting on its 9ha scale situations similar to those of large territories.

Through guided tours and meetings, visitors will be able to discover a remarkable garden whose architecture is similar, or almost, to that of the 17th century, but whose arboricultural and vegetable processes adapt to today’s constraints. How does a food garden perpetuate practices over time, what has been passed on and what can gardeners today transmit to those of tomorrow? Questions to which the visitor will be able to find answers through a cultural programme organized for the occasion of the European Heritage Days, on the theme of living heritage.

À propos du lieu

ENSP - Potager du Roi

10 rue du Maréchal-Joffre 78000 Versailles

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Created on the site of the Potager du Roi, in Versailles, and with a history linked to horticultural education and agricultural production dating back to the seventeenth century, the École nationale supérieure de paysage was a pioneer in the definition movement of the French school of landscape. With 9 hectares in the heart of Versailles, the Potager du Roi has been a model in the evolution of agricultural and food practices in urban areas since the beginning. A masterpiece of the regular garden art known as «à la française», the site of the École nationale supérieure de paysage was created under Louis XIV to provide the king’s table with fruits and vegetables. Classified as historical monuments and Remarkable Garden, it is an integral part of the Versailles estate inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Today, the École nationale supérieure de paysage pursues a production activity focused on short circuits that respect the environment, while developing links with training, resear