Marquessac Gardens

Rightly Marquessac Gardens, which are located on the hills of Perigord, in the French department of Dordogne experts refer to the masterpieces of landscape art. They occupy 22 hectares of land, and are surrounded by picturesque elegant French villages, they have long become not just a recreation area for tourists and locals, but also a place of pilgrimage for lovers of natural beauty and connoisseurs of figure cutting plants.

Marquessac Gardens consists of shady walking alleys stretching over six kilometers and shaped labyrinths of 150,000 old boxwood trees. They are cut so skillfully and with such imagination that they seem cute lambs on the green surface of the fields, they create an amazing romantic mood.

Excursions in this huge garden are organized along three routes that converge at Belvedere Castle. The height of the castle is 800 meters, so the view from its balconies is truly magnificent. Its form has remained unchanged since the XVIII century. From the windows of this castle you can see two different sides of the garden. On the back of the building is a more closed part, providing peace and comfort of the owners. And the facade of the castle faces the alley, on the sides of which boxwood trees were planted.