Jardin du Grand Rond et jardin royal
Rond-point Boulingrin allées Jules-Guesde, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
This public garden is part of an urban project set up in 1750 by Louis de Mondran (1699-1792), a prominent member of the Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the city of Toulouse. Created around 1754 in the form of a classic garden, then became a century after landscaping style and in the middle of the eighteenth century, its form centered on 3,3 allowed a better distribution of the axes of this new urban part and a more direct connection with the canal further north and the new neighborhoods around. Today, it has retained its classic structure despite its transformation into a landscaped garden in 1862 (then composed of 6 boulingrins peripheral and a central). Its wide aisles (on average 12 m wide) are organized around a central basin, occupied in the eighteenth century by a large hollow or bulging lawn. The access walkways from the royal garden and the Jardin des Plantes, as well as the platform of the bandstand, offer this variation of point of view during the wa
Tags
Jardin remarquable, Public garden, English garden, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire
Access
Jules-Guesde alleys, Boulingrin roundabout.
© STC Ville de Toulouse
