Discovery visit of the Renaissance Saint-Martin garden

Name: Visita de descubrimiento del jardín Renaissance Saint-Martin
Start: 2024-06-02T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-02T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardin Saint-Martin

The Jardin Saint-Martin of Medieval and Renaissance inspiration is located on the site of the old cemetery which bordered the nave XVth century.

Domingo 2 junio, 14:00Passed

The Jardin Saint-Martin of Medieval and Renaissance inspiration is located on the site of the old cemetery which bordered the nave XVth century. Free or guided tour.

Types of events

Guided tour

2024 Theme

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Conditions for participation

Free entrance

Type of audience

General public

About the location

Jardin Saint-Martin

Eglise Saint-Martin, rue de l'église 54220 Malzéville -Grand Est

Meurthe-et-Moselle
Grand Est

This garden of recent creation was conceived(designed) on the location of the old(former) cemetery of the church Saint Martin in the spirit of the heritage of the church, medieval by its tower to be faulty of the XIIIth century and Renaissance by its wall paintings(paints). Of modest size (200m2), it is symmetrically divided on both(all) sides of a main aisle into squares fulfilled by plessis of hazels In these squares, known plants in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance (more than a hundred) were introduced according to themes answering the traditional uses(practices) of time(period): curative, aromatic, food and condiment, utilitarian and ornamental, and magical. Objective is the extension of the visit of a historical heritage built in an aspect less known than is the medieval garden and Renaissance, its functions(offices) (provide at the vital needs for the inhabitants), its uses(practices) across the Capitulary of Villis, herbariums (of whom(which) that of Leonhart Fuchs) the medical treaties of distinguished characters such as Hildegarde de Bingen, Mattheus Platearius, Paracelse and its famous theory of signatures.