Rose Garden in Sauveterre de Rouergue

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The bastide’s former cemetery adorn itself with the roses’ colours…

Abandoned at the end of 19th century, the former cemetery became a rose garden in 2010 on the initiative of painter Barthélemy de Josy Mai-Andrieu’s, with the help of the villagers and the district of Sauveterre-de-Rouergue.
Climbing roses, rosebushes… Around 140 plants were planted. They added bucolic charm to this place where you can see a cross, a stela and sarcophagus, stone elements that remember us the former use of the site.
Carry your visit on thanks to the tourist map. To the attention of people with reduced mobility : The bastide is suitable for manual and electric wheelchairs. In front of and inside the rose garden (entrance with a garden-gate easy to open), the ground is grassy and gravelled.

Spoken languages : French

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