Discovery of biodiversity in the medieval garden and on the abbey site

Name: Discovery of biodiversity in the medieval garden and on the abbey site
Start: 2025-06-07T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-07T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardin médiéval du musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye,

With Christian Carminati, gardener of the museum and an animator of the Sensitive natural spaces of the Department of Isère, discover the biodiversity of the medieval garden and the diversity of speci

Saturday 7 June, 14:00

Conditions

Without reservation. Within the limits of available places.

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Motor impairment

With Christian Carminati, gardener of the museum and an animator of the Sensitive natural areas of the Department of Isère, discover the biodiversity of the medieval garden and the diversity of species on the abbey site of Saint-Antoine.

About the location

Jardin médiéval du musée de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye,

Le Noviciat 38160 Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye

Isère
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Four gardens, four stories, four stops punctuated by exuberant plants, aromatic herbs, flowers and fruit trees joined by the water of a fountain and ponds, an inherent element and founder of the very essence of the garden. A garden of Mediterranean plants, a link between East and West, welcomes the visitor in its rediscovery of medieval gardens: the Garden of Paradise, a place of delight and contemplation with its flowers and birds; the Garden of the perfumer, quintessence of the enclosed garden where the rose smells; the Garden of the Simple and its medicinal plants; the Arabo-Andalusian Celestial Garden, where the mineral symphony meets the profusion of plants. If these gardens have been reinterpreted from emblematic works, they also allow us to recall that the Abbey of Saint-Antoine was from the Middle Ages a vast garden, this cloister symbolizing the heavenly paradise according to the evocation of Sicard, Bishop of Cremona, who recommended that the garden be “planted with trees and