Jardins de Salagon

Salagon priory, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

The Jardins de Salagon are a public park, museum and an ethnobotanical garden located in the town of Mane, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Department of France. They surround the buildings of Salagon priory (12th century) and are classified by the French Ministry of Culture as one of the Notable Gardens of France.

Description

The gardens are located at an altitude of five hundred meters, between the Durance River and the Lure mountain, in the basin of Forcalquier.

The garden is made up of five different sections;

History

Excavations show that the site of the garden has been occupied since Gallo-Roman times. At the end of the 10th century the domaine belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. A priory was built in the 11th century. Several buildings of the old priory remain; the church, with an 11th-century choir and two naves from the 12th century; the logis (13th and 15th centuries) and farm buildings (16th-19th centuries.). In the 18th century the priory was attached to the convent of the Minimes brothers of Mane. During the French Revolution the property was nationalized.

In the 19th century the buildings were used for agriculture. In 1981, they were purchased by the commune and restored. Since 1981 the buildings house the Museum of the Ethnographic Heritage of Haute-Provence.

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Coordinates: 43°56′11″N 5°45′55″E / 43.936426°N 5.765333°E / 43.936426; 5.765333

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