Urban transhumance

Name: Urban transhumance
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée national et domaine du château de Pau

Saturday 16 September 2023, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free of charge. Free admission.

©corinneletuppe

Urban transhumance

Nature walk

Invitation to follow in the footsteps of the shepherd and the flock of sheep for an urban walk to discover the eco-grazing of parks and gardens.
A lively stroll around exchanges on this mode of maintenance and environmental issues, from the slopes of the Gaston Phoebus park to the Basse-Plante of the Château de Pau.
Slopes of the park Gaston Phoebus,
avenue of the 18th Infantry Regiment in Pau

About the location

Musée national et domaine du château de Pau

Rue du château, 64000 Pau

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Built in the XIIIth century by the viscounts of Béarn, the castle of Pau is extended in 1370s by legendary Gaston Fébus, count of Foix and viscount of Béarn (1343-1391). In the first half of the XVIth century, Henry d' Albret and her wife, Margaret d' Angoulême, sister of François Ier, give him the decoration(set) Renaissance which saw being born, in 1553, the one who will become Henry IV, " the good king Henry ".
In the XIXth century, Louis-Philippe, then Napoleon III proceed to a complete restoration(catering) and to a refitting(reorganisation) of the royal apartments. Of this time(period), the castle kept(preserved) undamaged its internal decoration(set), of style Troubadour and neo-Renaissance, as well as exceptional all the most prestigious tapestries of Flanderses and of the Gobelins des XVIe, XVIIth century and the XVIII centuries.