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This "Remarkable Garden", in the grounds of the castle of Brantes, was designed and planted in 1959 by the Danish landscape architect Mogens Tvede. It boasts the largest magnolia grandiflora bicentennial in Europe.

The castle of Brantes was built around 1700 by the Bianco family, originally from Florence, who settled in the pontifical city of Avignon in 1600. It was enlarged in 1815 by General de Cessac, minister to Napoleon I, and restored in 1960 by the current owners, descendants of del Bianco.

The romantic park with its paths of boxwood and plane trees dates from 1815. The "Remarkable Garden" was designed and planted in 1959 by the Danish landscape architect Mogens Tvede. It is centred around three mirror basins, where water flows from the nearby Sorgue, and its famous magnolia grandiflora bicentennial (the largest in Europe: 6m circumference). An enclosed garden of Florentine inspiration, its dominant colours are the permanent green (grass, boxwood, cypress, magnolia) and white (snowy pink roses, althaea, shrub peony).

Date of creation: 1959
Area: Garden: 1 ha; Park: 3 ha.