Come travel in the footsteps of Jean Rameau

Name: Come travel in the footsteps of Jean Rameau
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Domaine du Pourtaou et de la Gloriette

Guided tours in the footsteps of Jean Rameau.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

Registration

06 76 15 36 87

©Jacqueline Sarthou

You are invited to come and discover the gardens of Pourtaou and, for the first time in its history, the Gloriette, the poet’s last home, recently restored thanks to the foundation of the heritage and the lotto of heritage.
Two 30-minute tours are offered continuously:

Garden tour
Rendezvous at 3036 Pourtaou Road, 40300 Cauneille
Visit of the Gloriette,
Meet at the intersection of the Pourtaou road and the Gloriette road
The free visit is possible:
Saturday: 10:00-12:00, 14:00-18:00
Sunday: 10:00-12:00, 14:00-18:00

About the location

Domaine du Pourtaou et de la Gloriette

3036 route du Pourtaou, 40300 Cauneille

Landes
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Poet, novelist, painter, sculptor, designer of his house, his gardens and his “gloriette”, creator of furniture, assembler of objects and works of all kinds, with a prolific imagination, Jean Rameau (1858 - 1942) conceived at Pourtaou, at Cauneille, a unique and composite work that escapes the usual canons of art history. Like Edmond Rostand, whom he knew, Jean Rameau created with his own hands a poem of architecture, ornaments and flowered flower beds. In the heart of a hilly and wooded landscape overlooking the Gave de Pau – the idyllic setting of the poet’s new Arcadia – he summoned his loved ones and literary peers to his home, with a syncretism never far removed from a staging of his personality. The accumulation of objects rubs shoulders with a personal conception of the decor, made with an approximate talent, but always full of poetry and fun, while the JR monogram recalls here and there who is the master of the place.