The park of the Villa Marie is the garden of a holiday residence designed in 1906 for a senator from the Rhône, François Thévenet. At the foot of the preserved residence, transformed into a municipal library, lies a garden designed on a geometric plan…
The park of the Villa Marie is the garden of a holiday residence designed in 1906 for a senator from the Rhône, François Thévenet. At the foot of the preserved residence, transformed into a municipal library, extends a garden designed on a geometric plan influenced by the French garden.
The garden, whose entrance is marked by two splendid century-old palm trees, is organized in a classical way around a vast rectangular pond punctuated by magnificent lagerstroemias. The paths are lined with privets, magnolias, maples and cedars. A very beautiful statuary embellishes the whole. Near the pond you can see a copy of Falconnet's bather and under the grand marble staircase one of the statues that framed the tomb of Count Joseph-Olmer de Valbelle.
The garden, whose entrance is marked by two splendid century-old palm trees, is organized in a classical way around a vast rectangular pond punctuated by magnificent lagerstroemias. The paths are lined with privets, magnolias, maples and cedars. A very beautiful statuary embellishes the whole. Near the pond you can see a copy of Falconnet's bather and under the grand marble staircase one of the statues that framed the tomb of Count Joseph-Olmer de Valbelle.