Doué la fontaine

This splendid XVIII century old building, classified tourist monument, at summer built by the baron de Foullon, superintendent of finances of Louis XVI. With with dimensions of these stables, the vestiges of the castle destroyed into 1789 are always visible

Created by the rosierists of Gifted in 1973, the garden of the Pinks accomodates 400 varieties of rose trees, bushes, stems and climbing.

In the dubious beginnings, the arenas could date from the moyenâgeuse time. Its undergrounds and the 1100 places of its amphitheatre were cut in the shelly sand. Its cellars successively were used of inn, prison and deposit of weapons.

Old careers of shelly sand of XVIII me and XIX me centuries, re-used in habitat and mushroom beds. True maze of an about sixty ogival rooms, whose certain vaults culminate with 20 meters height.

Single in Europe for its remarkable site troglodytic, the zoo of Gifted presents a rare collection of more than 500 animals in a luxuriant and wild vegetation.

The sand pit The Sand pit proposes to you the guided tour of its artisanal water distilling of pink and its troglodytic cavities without forgetting its artisanal products with the pink The old farm A farm in the middle of the city with its tools and its material of formerly, its animals, its planted garden of 300 rose trees, its culture of cornflowers, its artisanal floral water distilling

The museum recalls the history of the trade of 1850 to 1950. You will discover a score of small authentic shops there.