Domaine de Vizille - Musée de la révolution française
Place du Château, 38220 Vizille, France
Isère
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
The park of the castle of Vizille, located in the valley of the Romanche was designed in the 17th century as a garden of pleasure by the Duke of Lesdiguières. Punctuated by a curved canal ended by a waterfall and many streams and canals, the estate of 100 hectares offers to the visit a rose garden, a square of scents (aromatic) and beyond an English park of forty hectares, with vegetable essences, varied is organized around large mails of plane trees that delimit meadows and clearings. Rose garden, contemporary Renaissance-inspired parterre, mineral forecourt and green room. An animal park of sixty two hectares occupies the bottom of the valley.
Tags
Jardin remarquable, Musée de France, Public garden, Monument historique
Access
From Lyon: A 480 toward Sisteron (exit n°8 Vizille) Grenoble center: - By Pont de Claix (D 1075 then D 1085) - by Brié (Route Napoléon) - by Uriage: D 524, Route Touristique
