Château de la Roche-Courbon

Set on the banks of a watercourse, the Bruant, this site, wedged between two cliffs, was at all times chosen by man.

Under the present castle are caves whose prehistoric furnishings show they were inhabited in the Mousterian (120,000 years ago), Aurignacian (40,000 years ago) and Magdalenian (10,000 years ago) periods.

In other places in the forest that surrounds this residence, remain: there, the enclosure of a Gallo-Roman village, here Merovingian tombs and, well before the present lodging, remains of eleventh-century walls: the place was then called ROMETTE. The exhibition retraces, in images, the history of the gardens from the eighteenth century to today. Set in the former guards' kitchen, inside the castle's vaulted cellars, this set of twenty panels shows the visitor the evolution of the site and how the French-style gardens could be imagined, drawn then planted there.

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