Visit a Renaissance Garden

Name: Visita un jardín de espíritu renacentista
Start: 2023-09-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Hôtel Juvénal-des-Ursins

Located in the heart of an island, at the back of the Hotel Juvénal-des-Ursins, this garden offers a Renaissance setting with its cross plan and the design of its ornamental parterre. It respects the

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

©Carole Bell - Ville de Troyes

Located in the heart of the islet, at the back of the Juvénal-des-Ursins hotel, this garden offers a Renaissance setting by its cross plan and the design of its ornamental parterre. It respects the intimate side of the façade and voluntarily presents a domestic character through the vegetable garden.

About the location

Hôtel Juvénal-des-Ursins

26 rue Champeaux, 10000 Troyes

Aube
Grand Est

The Juvénal-des-Ursins hotel dates of 1526\. It was rebuilt stone, further to the fire of May 25th, 1524, the fashion of the "private residences" which spread in cities to the rich and influential families. The located building «between court(yard) and garden» is adorned with an oriel window (small oratorical domestic). The high attic with small window and origins(stumps) of fireplaces, the turret of staircase on the garden, fireplaces and ceilings indoors, are very French characteristics of late Gothic. In return on the court(yard), the topped gallery of a loggia, including two spans in round arch, is an element of Italian importation. This architecture of composite style is a transition towards French Renaissance.