Discovery of the medicinal and toxic plants of the gardens and the Apothicarium of a Franciscan cloister

Name: Discovery of the medicinal and toxic plants of the gardens and the Apothicarium of a Franciscan cloister
Start: 2022-09-17T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Cloître des Récollets

Come and discover a Franciscan cloister of the thirteenth century and its gardens of medicinal plants and toxic plants that have given great medicines.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 14:30Passed

Conditions

Free. Prior registration required; group limited to 18 people. Meeting point at Inspire Metz agency.

Registration

tourisme@inspire-metz.com 03 87 39 00 00

©Philippe Gisselbrecht - Ville de Metz

Some plants have given life to treatments such as anti-cancer drugs, heart tonics or powerful painkillers. Also discover the Apothicarium, a visit not to be missed!

About the location

Cloître des Récollets

1-3 rue des Récollets, 57000 Metz

Moselle
Grand Est

Based(Established) by monks in the order of the Cordeliers who settled down on the hill Sainte-Croix in 1230, the cloister was occupied from 1602 and up to Revolution by Récollets who(which) became established there on their place. Buildings(Ships) knew diverse uses then: store with salt, coopers then shoemakers working for the army, workshops(studios) of charity, office(desk) of beneficence... On a part(party) of the gardens of the Convent of Récollets were built in 1863 of the reservoirs of water for the supply of the city. Today, the Local Archives occupy two old(former) reservoirs.
The Garden of the Simple (curative plants) of the cloister of Récollets presents a collection of more than 80 different sorts(species) with their precise and official therapeutic indications published by the French Agency of Sanitary Safety(Security) of the Products of Health (ANSM). The second garden proposes toxic plants used in the preparation of medicine as anticancer agents, tonic cardiac or else powerful painkillers.