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Saturday 1 June, 10:00, 11:15Passed
Conditions
Free guided tour, on registration, maximum 15 people, all public from 8 years
June 2024
Saturday 1
10:00 - 10:45
11:15 - 12:00
Accessible to the intellectually impaired
Accessible to the psychic impaired
Accessible to the motor impaired

Bibliothèque des Dominicains

1 place des Martyrs de la Résistance 68000 Colmar
  • Haut-Rhin
  • Grand Est

Botanical walk

Caroline Guth, passionate about nature, resolutely turned towards plants and their benefits and specialist in phyto-aromatherapy, offers 2 guided tours to discover the flowery meadow of the bi…
Saturday 1 June, 10:00, 11:15Passed
Conditions
Free guided tour, on registration, maximum 15 people, all public from 8 years
© Ville de Colmar

Caroline Guth, passionate about nature, resolutely turned towards plants and their benefits and specialist in phyto-aromatherapy, offers 2 guided tours to discover the flowery meadow of the Dominican library. Composed of annual, biennial and perennial flowers that are adapted to the soil and climate of the region (poppies, blueberries, daisies, etc.), they bloom from spring to fall. This meadow is a nice alternative to grass and has many advantages. It is a source of biodiversity and contributes to the conservation of places of life and refuge for small wildlife such as birds, bats, butterflies and other pollinators. It is also oriented towards eco-gardening. It requires few interventions (usually a single mowing at the end of the year to allow the plants to seed and thus to reseal themselves) and does not require watering. This makes it a good response to climate change.

Types of events
Guided tour
2024 Theme
The five senses in the garden
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Conditions for participation
Free entrance
Type of audience
General public

About the location

Bibliothèque des Dominicains
1 place des Martyrs de la Résistance 68000 Colmar
  • Haut-Rhin
  • Grand Est
Recently reopened to the public after four years of work, the restored Dominican convent, place of conservation of the historical collections of Colmar, is an exceptional site for exceptional collections.
It is in this listed monument that the city library has been installed since 1951\. The gallery of the cloister, rebuilt in the middle of the 15th century, serves as a setting for one of the most beautiful ancient collections. In 2012, the departure of public reading collections to the Media Cluster-Culture Edmond Gerrer allows the Library to focus on its functions of conservation and enhancement of the Colmar collections and gives it the vocation to become a first-rate heritage library.
The Library houses considerable collections, including 1,217 manuscripts, a third of which date back to the Middle Ages, 2,300 incunabula (mainly editions from German workshops, which constitute the largest collection of this type of work in France after Paris), 50,000 books printed between the 16th a
Tags
Monument historique, Première participation, Jardin d'inspiration médiévale
Access
Bike: locations between the library and the church of the Dominicans/ TRACE bus network of Colmar Agglomeration/ Car: many parking nearby
Bibliothèque des Dominicains