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Parc Botanique de Haute Bretagne

Le Châtellier, France

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Parc Botanique de Haute Bretagne

A 25-hectare botanical park around a château near Fougères, laid out as a series of numbered themed gardens with ponds, bridges and woodland paths. Japanese-inspired sections with maples for autumn colour stand alongside rose gardens, camellias, magnolias and a bamboo forest.

Highlights

  • Japanese garden and maples
  • Bamboo forest and maze
  • Ponds with Japanese bridges

Good to know

  • Allow at least two hours
  • Free shaded parking, dogs on leash
  • Tea room on château terrace, restaurant

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