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Chaumont International Garden Festival

Amboise, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Modern art garden with rust coloured sculptured trees

Last updated: 10 March, 2024

Expect the unexpected: Chaumont’s adventurous garden festival is a must whether you’re a plant lover or interested in horticultural design. Far from the conventional vision of sedate floral displays, here artists, designers and architects as well as landscape gardeners create gardens that range from the ingenious to the crazy.

Held in the grounds of a stunning chateau overlooking the Loire, there’s always plenty to inspire. Yearly themes have ranged from weeds and colour to eroticism.

While you’re there

Make time to visit the grand staterooms and private apartments of the picturesque turreted chateau overlooking the Loire.

Logistics

Price from: £15

Minimum age: 0

Age suitable: 18+

Frequency: annually

When: mid-May - October

Duration: 5 months

Getting there & doing it

The Chaumont-sur-Loire Chateau sits between the towns of Blois and Amboise. It’s most easily reached by car (with plenty of parking space), but can also be reached by local train to Onzain on the other side of the river.

This is a non-bookable event. Tickets are sold at the entrance.

When to do it

The exact dates vary, but the event is held from mid-May to the end of October.

Who to go with: organised tours

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LOIRE VALLEY : Int'l Garden Festival at CHAUMONT + the king castle of CHAMBORD

Paris

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IT IS SAFE TO TRAVEL WITH US - All our services are privatized and without regrouping with unknown visitors coming from outside. - All our tours include a pickup and dropoff at your hotel. - Book now and pay upon arrival. If you are a gardens lover, you have certainly heard of the International Garden Festival of Chaumont sur Loire. It takes place this year from may 8th to November 07th, 2021 You can't return to Paris without visiting the must-to-do castle while visiting Paris - Chambord (masterpiece of the French renaissance). Lunch in nice restaurant is also included. Itinerary: 07.30 am Pick up at your hotel (Paris) and private transfer to Austerlitz train station 08:24 am | Departure of the train for Orléans (one hour) 09:32 am -En route to Chaumont sur Loire. Visit of the Garden Festival and the Castle. 12h30 | Lunch in a restaurant 02:00 pm- 04 pm | Visit of Chambord 06:00 pm | Transfer to Orléans train station 07:00 pm| Arrival in Paris and private transfer to your hotel.

Price €540

Min age 6

Rating 4.22 / 5 [9 ratings]

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