Descrizione
Nell'ambito del 23° Rendez-vous aux jardins, il cui tema nazionale è "La vista", il giardino della Serre de la Madone invita il pubblico a riscoprire il giardino attraverso una semplice domanda: cosa guardiamo veramente quando visitiamo un giardino?
On Saturday June 6 and Sunday June 7, 2026, guided tours will be offered throughout the day, at an exceptionally reduced rate, to explore this remarkable garden from the angle of the eye, perspectives and landscape staging.
The 2026 Rendez-vous aux jardins theme, "Sight", invites us to look beyond the obvious. Seeing a garden is more than just contemplating it. It means learning to read a composition, to follow a line, to perceive an opening, to understand how a path, a terrace, a pond or a plantation organizes our perception.
For centuries, gardens have been conceived as architectures for the eye. They guide our steps, orient our viewpoints, provide surprises, create depths, frame the landscape or, on the contrary, conceal it to better reveal it. Like a tableau vivant, the garden is discovered in successive planes: foreground, perspective, escape, shadow, light, reflection, movement.
The theme 2026 also invites us to broaden the very notion of perception. In line with the national collaboration between the French Ministry of Culture, the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France and the Valentin Haüy association, committed to the autonomy of visually impaired people, this edition reminds us that a garden is not just something to be discovered with the eyes. Plant textures, fragrances, the sound of water, the freshness of shade, the relief of the ground and the sensations of a walk all play their part in the garden experience.
This approach finds a particular echo at Serre de la Madone, where the visit is never based on a frontal vision of the landscape. Here, visitors are also invited to slow down and open up to all the sensations of the place.
As part of the Rendez-vous aux jardins 2026, guided tours of Serre de la Madone will help visitors decipher this essential dimension of the site.
Visitors will be invited to pay particular attention to framing, vanishing lines, contrasts between light and shadow, and transitions between intimate spaces and open landscapes. The tour will also help visitors understand how Lawrence Johnston created a garden that is botanical, aesthetic and sensitive.
At Serre de la Madone, to look is also to learn to slow down. The garden doesn't reveal everything immediately. It reveals itself in sequences, in details, in breaths. A cut leaf, a bark, a reflection, a perspective between two masses of vegetation all become clues to understanding the spirit of the place.
