Visit of the park of the Domaine de la Grange aux Champs

Name: Visit of the park of the Domaine de la Grange aux Champs
Start: 2021-09-18T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Parc du Domaine de La Grange aux Champs

Come and discover the Château de la Grange Park at the Champs de Nettancourt. Remarkable trees, ponds and rock cave will punctuate your journey.

18 and 19 September 2021Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance. Guided tour fee: 5€.

Registration

06 72 85 54 30

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Come and discover the Château de la Grange Park at the Champs de Nettancourt. Remarkable trees, ponds and rock cave will punctuate your journey.

From its monastic origin, the estate kept its name. The park, composed around the white waters that punctuate it in ponds, ponds, streams, has beautiful statues, a rock cave, a apiary, a fishery, a wash-house belonging to the traditional Argon architecture and a cuverie with old press and crusher in the common, Champagne style.
Rare trees are listed as well as many hydrangeas. Outside the summer period, you have the possibility, by appointment, to book visits for groups.
A guided tour of the park will also be offered at 3pm on Sundays.

About the location

Parc du Domaine de La Grange aux Champs

Château de La Grange aux Champs, 55800 Nettancourt

Meuse
Grand Est

From its monastic origins, the park has preserved numerous ponds, a pond and a stream the Leurande. Before the Revolution and immediately after, the garden is regular «à la française». There is a large pine alley that goes directly to the entrance door of the time, a circular basin with a jet of water just in front of the main entrance and a rectangular canal on which the statue of Neptune was already watching.
At the end of the 19th century, the park was redesigned from its existing elements by Philippe and Arbeaumont landscapers and nurserymen at Vitry-le-François. The statue of Neptune is then perched on a rock-cave or nymphaea. The symmetry of the park is recomposed in the «English» style, this thanks to the road that borders the park which did not exist before and which forced to change the grid of access of place and thus to favor the recomposition of the park. Many rare trees were planted.
The two statues that adorn the park were executed in the 18th century by a barrisien sculp