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  • Discover the site with a stroll around the fortifications, thus offering a whole view of the park, before entering the different levels of the gardens.
  • The Abundant vegetable garden, shaped as a rose-tree leaf, hemmed by 10 000 box bushes.
  • Two gardens composed exclusively of hardy perennial plants which ensure blossom throughout the year.
  • Two green geometrical gardens from the 16th and the 17th century, bordered with statues.
  • A suspended garden on the hillside, 10 meters high and 90 meters long, composed of 400 rose-trees (7 varieties of yellow and gold roses).
  • Areas devoted to the cultivation of various species of lilies.

La Chatonnière,
the poetic gardens

Surrounding the small Renaissance style Château, composed of six towers encircling a central court, nine terrace gardens can be admired at the Château de la Chatonnière.

All different, secret and flowery, they are organized according to nine themes: Elegance, Silence, Abundance, the Senses, Intelligence, Implausibility, Romance, Exuberance and Medicinal Sciences.

Château de la Chatonnière
37190 Azay-le-Rideau
Tél : 02 47 45 44 40

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