Created in 1995, this botanical garden, inspired by medieval tradition, is designed to evoke the enclosed gardens typical of the late Middle Ages.
The plants you will discover were used in the Old World—Europe—before the discovery of the Americas in 1492.
Many of these plants were known during the Middle Ages, but also in Antiquity and sometimes even in Prehistoric times. Some are native to Europe, while others came from Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, or even the Far East, introduced through Arab and Italian traders and the Crusaders.
You’ll find several themed gardens: the medicinal or “simples” garden, the kitchen garden with culinary herbs and vegetables, the utility plant garden featuring textile and dye plants, the flower garden, the cereal plots and wild field plants, and the garden of toxic plants, some of which were part of medieval pharmacopoeia.
We also wanted to highlight the wild Mediterranean flora: being able to name the plants one comes across during a walk is already a first step toward knowing them.
The gardening practices used here are environmentally friendly.
