The eye of the gardeners of Saint-Riquier Abbey

Name: The eye of the gardeners of Saint-Riquier Abbey
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Abbaye de Saint-Riquier - Centre culturel départemental

The gardener will accompany you in the discovery of the gardens of the abbey of Saint-Riquier where he will reveal all his secrets.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

On inscription at the entrance of the abbey

Registration

0360034470 abbayesaintriquier@somme.fr

The abbey gardens are full of very different spaces. The gardener will introduce you to the esplanade, the meditation alley, the old barns or the beautiful wooded space. With a history of more than 1400 years, the abbey and its park have a lot to tell. While discovering its history, the gardener will take the opportunity to explain to you the maintenance necessary for the beautification of the park.
This year, the team of the Baie de Somme Regional Natural Park will be present to accompany you in these discoveries and to talk about the climatic disturbances in Picardy. A few key figures will help us understand the prospects we can expect and the consequences this will have on our gardens and the ornamental and vegetable plants that grow there. Concrete examples of actions to be taken to rethink your garden and face global warming will be proposed.

About the location

Abbaye de Saint-Riquier - Centre culturel départemental

Place de l'église 80135 SAINT-RIQUIER

Somme
Hauts-de-France

On the slopes of the Somme Valley stands a majestic abbey of nearly 1400 years of history. It takes its name from an inhabitant of the vicus of Centule (the city with a hundred towers, today called Saint-Riquier) converted to the Christian religion, which evangelized the Ponthieu and was made holy at his death in 645\.
The monastery founded in the seventh century became a royal abbey in 632 by the protection granted to it by King Dagobert I. His importance was such that in 790 Charlemagne placed at his head one of the highest figures of his court, Angilbert, his adviser. Major abbey of the Carolingian world, it is destroyed in 881 by the invasion of the Normans. In total it will suffer of seventeen destructions. The eclectic architecture of the monument testifies to this turbulent past.
During the French Revolution, the old conventual buildings were sold as national property. Initially used as a quarry of stones, they will then receive many assignments, military (hospitals during the t