Lecoq Garden

The Lecoq garden, in Clermont-Ferrand

The Lecoq garden is the great public garden of the centre of Clermont-Ferrand, a peaceful English-style park appreciated by the Clermontois. The Clermont-Ferrand audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this setting of greenery created from 1863 by the botanist Henri Lecoq around a former botanical garden, with its rose garden, its pond and its open-air café, an oasis of freshness in the heart of the medieval district.

History

It is to the botanist Henri Lecoq that the city owes this garden, laid out from 1863 around a botanical garden that already occupied this site. Conceived first as the Garden of Plants of Clermont, it took in 1915 the form of the English-style garden that is known today, with its sinuous paths and its careful perspectives. The garden is composed of a fine rose garden, a pleasant pond around which it is pleasant to stroll, and an open-air café where to have a drink at the water's edge. A vast green space of five hectares in the very city centre, it is an unmissable place for the Clermontois, who come to stroll there, picnic or practise their sport. It brings a generous touch of greenery and freshness in the heart of the medieval district, a stone's throw from the museum that bears the same name, and remains one of the most appreciated green lungs of the city.

What to see

Here you stroll in the great public garden of Clermont-Ferrand, a peaceful English-style park of five hectares created from 1863 by the botanist Henri Lecoq; its rose garden, its pond and its open-air café make it an oasis of freshness where the Clermontois come to stroll, picnic or do sport. The Lecoq garden is a green lung in the heart of the city. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Lecoq garden lies in the very city centre of Clermont-Ferrand, near the Henri-Lecoq museum, reachable on foot. It is a public park in free access, whose opening hours vary according to the season. You discover it during a walk in the centre.

Who created the Lecoq garden in Clermont-Ferrand?

It is the botanist Henri Lecoq who laid it out from 1863, around a botanical garden already present; first a Garden of Plants, it became in 1915 the current English-style garden, a vast green space of five hectares endowed with a rose garden, a pond and an open-air café, much appreciated by the Clermontois.

Where is the Lecoq garden in Clermont-Ferrand?

In the very city centre of Clermont-Ferrand, near the Henri-Lecoq museum, in France.