5 - 7 June

June 2026

Friday 5
- 08:30 - 20:30
Saturday 6
- 08:30 - 20:30
Sunday 7
- 08:30 - 20:30

Parc de Majolan

123 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 33290 Blanquefort, France

Gironde

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Wandering in Majolan Park

Name: Wandering in Majolan Park
Start: 2026-06-05T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-07T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Parc de Majolan

Go to the gardens

5 - 7 June

©Ministère de la Culture, DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine - Perrine Plisson

Visit the park of Majolan embellished with its follies.
Discovery of the marshy alder.

June 2026

Friday 5
- 08:30 - 20:30
Saturday 6
- 08:30 - 20:30
Sunday 7
- 08:30 - 20:30

Additionnal information

Manifestation

Rendez-vous européens aux jardins

About the location

Parc de Majolan

123 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 33290 Blanquefort, France

Gironde

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The park was built around 1880 by the landscaper Louis Le Breton, for the banker Jean Gustave Piganeau. It revolves around a four-hectare artificial body of water whose cuttings are used to model the surrounding reliefs. A cement rock cave of more than 1,000 sqm overlooks this water mirror. It hosts a set of passages and cool rooms, one of which has a mosaic. Another room opens onto the lake and serves as a pier, while a last one preserves the sites of old aquariums. Crowning the whole, a gallery extended by a walkway leads to a Belvedere decorated with mosaics and decorated with benches to enjoy the point of view. Artificial caves have been known since Antiquity and are updated in the Renaissance. Today, they are still present, as in Kerdalo (Cotes-d’Armor), or in the Royal Gardens of Herrenhäusen (Hanover – Germany), created by Niki de Saint-Phalle. This park illustrates the know-how of architects, water engineers, but also craftsmen of the late 19th century.

June 2026

Spaziergang durch den Majolan Park

Wandering in Majolan Park

Girovagare nel Majolan Park

Déambulation dans le parc de Majolan

Paseando por el Parque Majolan

June 2026