"Sensory garden at the Abbaye aux Dames, the musical city: secrets of medicinal and edible plants" (all cycle)

Name: "Sensory garden at the Abbaye aux Dames, the musical city: secrets of medicinal and edible plants" (all cycle)
Start: 2024-05-31T13:45:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-31T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes

In the Middle Ages, the ladies of the abbey cultivated many plants, to flavor the kitchen, to heal themselves or for the happiness of contemplating nature. The gardeners of Bellerive perpetuate a…

Friday 31 May, 13:45, 15:00Passed

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Information and registration: 06 08 82 79 09 - [l.pabeau@ville-saintes.fr](mailto:l.pabeau@ville-saintes.fr)

Registration

06 08 82 79 09 l.pabeau@ville-saintes.fr

©centre social Bellerive

In the Middle Ages, the ladies of the abbey cultivated many plants, to flavor the kitchen, to heal themselves or for the happiness of contemplating nature. The gardeners of Bellerive perpetuate these skills in the gardens of the abbey!
Workshop Schedule:

Exchanges in the nuns' garden to discover, feel and touch plants that do us good;
Gathering of plants to make a decoction at the Abboutique;
Bazilik carousel from the abbey, to awaken the ears too!
With the association Bellerive and Gérald Leveau, biodiversity animator of the Cadre de vie service of the City of Saintes. Carousel animated by the Abbaye aux Dames, the musical city.

About the location

Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes

11 place de l'Abbaye

Charente-Maritime
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

It is in an architectural ensemble where mix Romanesque art of the abbey and conventual buildings of classical style, that the abbey to the Ladies of Saintes has implemented a project around music, especially interpretation, and put it into a national and international network. At the time when the nuns still lived in the conventual buildings, there was already a garden of the simple. Medicinal plants were mainly cultivated, intended for the sick and pilgrims passing through. This garden has been recreated to give back to the space its charm of yesteryear. A nice walk in a place that inspires serenity and offers an incredible view of the Romanesque bedside of the Abbaye aux Dames, not to mention its recognizable bell tower in the shape of a pine cone.