The Loire Valley, a land of gardens

Published on 31 January 2018 - Updated 29 March 2019

The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the significance of gardens in the Loire Valley landscape and to explain how the garden is a key feature shaping this territory and one of the reasons for its listing as a Unesco World Heritage.

The 6 panels making up this exhibition: 

  1. In the Loire Valley, from the Middle Ages
  2. The Renaissance, for the gardens too
  3. Open-air palaces and acclimatisation
  4. Urban, public and sustaining
  5. Restoring, reconstructing, creating
  6. The Green Spirit

Download: 

Panneaux de présentation "Le Val de Loire, une terre de jardins" (PDF, 5.91 MB)  

To mark the "Gardens in the Loire Valley 2017" season, Mission Val de Loire put on 3 travelling "mini-exhibitions" for stakeholders and partners exploring the garden theme, aimed at rounding off the initiative: 

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