Discovery of the site and the garden of Petit Perron, "Maison des Champs" of the 16th century

Name: Discovery of the site and the garden of Petit Perron, "Maison des Champs" of the 16th century
Start: 2024-06-01T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-02T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Le Petit Perron

The site includes two historic buildings built between 1520 and 1580: Grand Perron (private property that can be seen from the outside) and Petit Perron, owned by the Fondation Renaud, of which …

1 and 2 JunePassed

Conditions

Free admission

©Renaissance du Petit Perron

The site includes two historic buildings built between 1520 and 1580: Grand Perron (private property that can be seen from the outside) and Petit Perron, property of the Fondation Renaud, whose gardens will be open to visitors on June 1 and 2, 2024. You will discover a garden in the making. ANIMATIONS: guided tour from the gardens, mini flea market with decorative objects and tools of the garden, plants, workshops related to the theme of the 5 Senses, musical moments, games, refreshment and small catering.
Picnic from the welcome bag.

About the location

Le Petit Perron

89 rue Voltaire 69310 PIERRE-BENITE

Métropole de Lyon
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The Perron site in Oullins-Pierre-Bénite is located in a dominant and strategic position on the eastern end of the Massif Central: the last granite block of this massif was the famous «Pierre Bénite» to which the sailors of the Rhône could moor and which gave its name to the city. The site includes two historic buildings built between 1520 and 1580: the Grand Perron (private property that can be seen from the outside) and the Petit Perron, property of the Fondation Renaud. It is the Florentine banker Antoine Gondi and his wife, Marie Catherine de Pierrevive, who in 1520 bought in Perron many lands, castle and farms. Then, going to Paris to accompany Catherine de Médicis, Charles IX and Henri II, they will sell their property to the banker Del Béné and to one of their neighbors in Lyon, Jean Camus. The Gondi will be very close advisers and intimates of the Kings and Queens of France until Henri IV. From the seventeenth century the Perron will be place of an agricultural and horticultura