Naturalist walks on the abbey site of Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye

Name: Balades naturalistes sur le site abbatial de Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye
Start: 2024-06-01T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-01T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Jardin médiéval du musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye

Walk the trails and look up… Guided by an animator of the Sensitive Natural Areas of the Isère Department, you will have a glimpse of the diversity of life in Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye.

Samedi 1 juin, 14h30, 15h30Passé

Walk the trails and look up… Guided by an animator of the Sensitive Natural Areas of the Isère Department, you will have a glimpse of the diversity of life in Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye.

À propos du lieu

Jardin médiéval du musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye

Le Noviciat, Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Isère
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Four gardens, four stories, four stops punctuated by exuberant plants, aromatic herbs, flowers and fruit trees joined by the water of a fountain and ponds, an inherent element and founder of the very essence of the garden. A garden of Mediterranean plants, a link between East and West, welcomes the visitor in its rediscovery of medieval gardens: the Garden of Paradise, a place of delight and contemplation with its flowers and birds; the Garden of the perfumer, quintessence of the enclosed garden where the rose smells; the Garden of the Simple and its medicinal plants; the Arabo-Andalusian Celestial Garden, where the mineral symphony meets the profusion of plants. If these gardens have been reinterpreted from emblematic works, they also allow us to recall that the Abbey of Saint-Antoine was from the Middle Ages a vast garden, this cloister symbolizing the heavenly paradise according to the evocation of Sicard, Bishop of Cremona, who recommended that the garden be “planted with trees and