Quimper is a city with exceptional flowering that we invite you to discover under the guidance of a guide-lecturer: protected by the ramparts of the old fortified town, the Garden of the Retreat is an original place, composed as a series of four thematic gardens communicating with each other by steps or doors and in which is a palm grove, broad-leaved plants of tropical appearance. This garden with its semi-tropical species offers a striking contrast with the Mediterranean vegetation of the latest garden in Quimper, the Garden of Peace.
Lunch in a traditional restaurant.
We offer you the opportunity to meet one of the talented gardeners of the city's green spaces department and to share their knowledge of botany by visiting the Priory garden, located along the Odet in the Locmaria district. Labelled " Remarkable Garden "and " Ecological green space "The Priory garden is laid out with aromatic and medieval plants in the spirit of the monastery gardens of the time ofAnne of Brittany.
Guided tour of the gardens of the Domaine de Lanniron.
Situé sur les rives de l’Odet, il fut pendant plus de six siècles la residence of the Bishops of Cornouaille. Transformed into a Palladian residence in the 19th century, the castle overlooks French gardens created in the 17th century and terraced down to the Odet.
