Places to see in ( Dijon - France ) Parc de la Colombiere
Places to see in ( Dijon - France ) Parc de la Colombiere
The Park Colombiere is a public park forest of 33 hectares of the xvii th century , style French garden at Dijon in Côte-d'Or in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté . It is classified as historical monuments since 1925. The park is located in the Quartier Chevreul-Parc in the south of Dijon. In 1672 this park, originally private, was created at the edge of the Ouche by the Prince de Condé and Governor of Burgundy Louis II of Bourbon-Condé (Grand Condé). It is connected to the center of Dijon by the Cours du Parc, then its extension, the Cours du General de Gaulle (in this park passes the Roman road Via Agrippa of the first century which connects Langres to Chalon-sur-Saone ).
In 1683 about 10 000 hornbills and 500 box trees are planted, then the following year 8000 charms and 200 lilac , followed in 1685 by 140 spruces and 140 yew ... Then arrived at its current form (except the chestnut trees ), the Prince de Condé concedes free access to Dijonnais .
The son of the previous, the Duke of Enghien and Governor of Burgundy Henri Jules Bourbon-Condé built the Castel de la Colombiere (former property of the Princes of Condé ) on the other side of the Ouche connected by a bridge in the park which he continues to develop with the landscape architect Antoine de Maerle (pupil and disciple of André Le Nôtre , landscape gardener of King Louis XIV of France ). The park is designed and planted according to the principles of the French garden Sixteen aisles (eight wide and eight narrow) radiate from a central roundabout in the perspective of the Castel facade, connected by an octagonal alley that bypasses the park.
At the French Revolution , the park becomes municipal and undisciplined. In 1843 the gate and pavilions of the former grant from St. Bernard are transferred to the main entrance and the Temple of Love of the xvii th century from the Château de Bierre-lès-Semur in 1965. In 1970 are created at the bottom of the park a large lawn with play tunes for children and pens for raising barnyard animals or ornamental. To date, the forest park (largest park in Dijon) has about 6,000 trees of more than ten different species (including about 1,600 hardwoods : linden trees , chestnut trees , oaks , hornbeams , ash trees , maples ... and more than one hundred conifers ...), lawns , many flower beds ...
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