Re: One of my best holidays ever - DORDOGNE-Perigord, France
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 11:58 am
Le Jardin du Manoir d'Eyrignac
Before getting to the gardens we stopped for lunch at a very intimate special restaurant
On the way we passed an ancient village wash house
The Manoir d'Eyrignac is a 17th-century manor house in Salignac-Eyvigues, in the Dordogne department of France, surrounded by a recreated 18th-century Italian Renaissance garden and an elaborate topiary garden. The house is sited on top of a hill, with water coming from seven springs. Only a pavilion, fountains and basins remain from the original 18th-century garden. In the 1960s, the new owner, Giles Sermadiras de Cuzols de Lile, created the new garden, which features topiary sculptures, vistas, fountains, statues, and an allée of vases. The garden is listed by the Committee of Parks and Gardens of the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Notable Gardens of France.
With its gardens of greenery and flowers, Eyrignac is the vegetable jewel of the Black Perigord, a
enchanted parenthesis a few kilometers from Sarlat.
Around the 17th century manor house extends the French garden where perspective games and
the mastery of Nature stage the boxwood arabesques, the gushing fountains, the
water mirrors, lawn carpets, and the collection of hand-carved plant sculptures by the
gardeners of Eyrignac.
Fois Gras to be
Before getting to the gardens we stopped for lunch at a very intimate special restaurant
On the way we passed an ancient village wash house
The Manoir d'Eyrignac is a 17th-century manor house in Salignac-Eyvigues, in the Dordogne department of France, surrounded by a recreated 18th-century Italian Renaissance garden and an elaborate topiary garden. The house is sited on top of a hill, with water coming from seven springs. Only a pavilion, fountains and basins remain from the original 18th-century garden. In the 1960s, the new owner, Giles Sermadiras de Cuzols de Lile, created the new garden, which features topiary sculptures, vistas, fountains, statues, and an allée of vases. The garden is listed by the Committee of Parks and Gardens of the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Notable Gardens of France.
With its gardens of greenery and flowers, Eyrignac is the vegetable jewel of the Black Perigord, a
enchanted parenthesis a few kilometers from Sarlat.
Around the 17th century manor house extends the French garden where perspective games and
the mastery of Nature stage the boxwood arabesques, the gushing fountains, the
water mirrors, lawn carpets, and the collection of hand-carved plant sculptures by the
gardeners of Eyrignac.
Fois Gras to be