Nearby the town center, between Boisdenier street and Roger Salengro street, this garden takes up 5 hectares of the area of Tours of the same name. At the beginning, this place was part of the incomes (or prebends) belonging to Oé’s provost, Saint Martin’s canon. This name can also be found in ‘Notre Dame d’Oé’, a town to the north of .Tours where the provost lived. This garden was created in 1872 by the Bühler brothers, on a marshy place drained by a stream called "Archbishop".
These well-known landscape gardeners acquired their fame thanks to the creation of ‘Parc du Thabor’ in Rennes and ‘Parc de la Tête d’Or’ in Lyon. A gate fences this garden with some doors on different streets. The main gate opening on Roger Salengro street is magnificent. Inside the garden, two woodbridges step across the lake. The bandstand and a little further, the small bandstand, belong to the cultural heritage of the garden.
Three statues can be found : the chemist general Meunier’s chest, by Varenne, Racan poet’s chest, by Sicard, and the statue of Ronsard poet, by Delpérier. The trees are gathered by species according to the Bühler brothers’ principles plane trees, limes, cedars…
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