Château of Chaumont-sur-Loire

The Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire is a belvedere overlooking the wild Loire, offering one of the most beautiful views of the Royal River. It now covers 32 hectares and welcomes over 500,000 visitors every year. It includes the Château (15th-19th centuries), its stables, landscaped grounds and the International Garden Festival. A centre for the arts and nature, the estate hosts installations by contemporary artists and exhibitions by leading photographers throughout the year. In July and August, the ‘Nocturnes au Jardin’ (Garden Nocturnes) invite you to take a poetic stroll through the gardens of the Festival; the Domaine’s restaurants welcome you and offer inventive cuisine based on a choice of local and organic produce.

Since 1992, the Garden Festival has provided an astonishing panorama of the state of landscape design around the world. Both a mine of ideas and a breeding ground for talent, the Festival reinvigorates the art of gardens by showcasing new blooms, innovative materials and fresh ideas and approaches. The diversity, creativity and quality of the projects have helped to establish the Festival's worldwide reputation, and it has become a not-to-be-missed event for showcasing the work of a new generation of landscape designers, architects, scenographers and gardeners... Alongside the Festival, the Vallon des Brumes, the ‘vegetable garden’, the educational garden and the Goualoup meadows offer the public permanent experimental gardens that change with the seasons.

Spoken languages ​​:French, English
Languages ​​documentation:French, English, German, Spanish, Italian
Visiting languages:French, English, German, Spanish
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Information panel :French English
Pets allowed