• Le Potager du Roy

  • Le Potager du Roy
  • Le Potager du Roy
  • Le Potager du Roy

The City wishes to turn this place into an educational garden, while preserving the possibility of organising visits, cultural events, concerts, etc. It is a new example of a heritage site that has found a vocation in today's Rochefort. The current "Potager du Roy "was already in the 19th century a vegetable garden. Today, surrounded by walls, it is a space of awakening for the gardeners of the schools of Rochefort under the guidance of Philippe the gardener of the green spaces of the city. Beyond the traditional vegetable garden rich in some thirty varieties of local vegetables... In this vegetable garden are grown cereals, peas and dried vegetables that were once shiped. Marine surgeons were keen to take medicinal plants such as absinthe, thyme, rosemary. And then, to make the sails of the boats or the ropes, you have to produce flax, hemp ...


Environment

Town location In centre of town Close to a public transportation

Opening time

From 01/03 to 31/10
Opening hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 8.30 am and 12 pm and between 1.30 pm and 4.30 pm.
Closed exceptionally on Easter Monday, Feast of the Ascension, Whit Monday, May 1st, May 8th, July 14th and August 15th.
Open exceptionally on 12/05, 26/05, 16/06, 23/06 and 30/06.

From 01/11 to 01/03, every Wednesday.
Closed exceptionally on January 1st, November 1st, November 11th and December 25th.

Prices & payment methods

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