Discover the history of the agricultural school of Vaseix and the rose garden of the estate

Name: Découvrez l'histoire du lycée agricole des Vaseix et de la roseraie du domaine
Start: 2024-09-22T10:45:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Lycée agricole des Vaseix

On the agenda:

Dimanche 22 septembre, 10h45Passé

©Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel. William Windrestin, 2024.

On the agenda:

History of the schools of the area, their architecture and the rose garden by Stéphanie Casenove, Researcher on the heritage of high schools (duration 45min).
Discovery of the educational project around the restoration of the rose garden of the estate by Eric Gayout, coordinator and trainer of the Landscape sector (45 min).
The Vaseix gourmet shop will be open from 11am to 3pm.
800m separate the current establishment from the rose garden.

À propos du lieu

Lycée agricole des Vaseix

Les vaseix, 87430 Verneuil-sur-Vienne

Haute-Vienne
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

In August 1942, Jean-Baptiste Laplagne bequeathed to the department the domain of Vaseix. A few years later, the department made the castle, the rose garden and the park available to the Ministry of Agriculture. The latter set up an agricultural household school there in 1954\. A new plot of more than three hectares opened a winter agricultural school that quickly became a regional school around which were built, to the north, the buildings of the boys' agricultural school in 1962\. All of the new buildings were designed by the architect Louis Mandon-Joly (1898-1973). At the same time, the women’s agricultural college was set up, further south, around the castle. Very quickly, applications for registration exploded. To meet the needs, extensions were built from 1969 for these two structures, bringing from 240 to 480 the number of students that could be accommodated at the high school. As for the college, its capacity is more than doubled, from 100 to 245 girls. This project to expand t