Located at the foot of the old rampart, on the site of the barbican, the garden enjoys a remarkable site both for its geographical orientation (privileged point of view), and for the wealth of architectural remains (remains of ramparts, staircases stone, apparatus of great beauty).
This garden traces the pilgrimage to Saint Jacques de Compostela and the lives of pilgrims on the way: departure, hospitality, notion of chance, joys and sorrows, crossing bridges, bad encounters, food and shelter, miracles.
With the help of an architect, a landscape architect, Marianne Sanna, the designer, reconstructed the pilgrims' route, "the Chemin d'Etoiles", by staging photographs, verses from songs and contemporary poems in a landscaped environment which directly illustrates the adventures of the pilgrim.
Exclusive in France, located at the foot of the old rampart, on the site of the barbican, the garden enjoys a remarkable site both for its geographical orientation (privileged point of view), and for the richness of the remains architectural (remains of ramparts, stone stairs, equipment of great beauty).
Another original feature of this garden: a life-size goose game!
Here, the goose game takes the Ways of Saint Jacques de Compostela and throwing the dice is equivalent to taking your bumblebee (pilgrim's stick) to access the "Garden of the Goose".
The players move, according to the dice, on a path marked out by numbered boxes and illustrated panels.
This journey strewn with pitfalls, joys and sorrows, suspends the lives of players to chance and luck.
According to the rules of the traditional goose game, the journey is punctuated by leaps forward, stops, backtracking... you have to cross the water first, the prison is after the inn, the bridge is before the well, death lurks in square 31… to reach the final square of the game - Heaven, square n ° 36 - and thus win the game.
Access all year round. Free entry.
