At the rear of the building, step through the gateway set between two columns. The cloister reveals a landscaped garden, in the heart of which blossoms the hues and scents of fruit trees, vegetable plants, medicinal herbs, condiments and flowers of various essences…
Discovering the Garden of Simples
Walk under the vaulted galleries on arched crossbars, which gracefully wrap around the garden’s perimeter. Let yourself be transported into the meanderings of the past, as you read the religious maxims inscribed on the walls. Precious vestiges, of the time when the sisters of Notre-Dame-de-Charité-du-Refuge had founded here, an establishment for young girls (1841).