Cordes Castle (France)

In 1695, Marshal d'Allègre, owner of the estate, called on the workshop of André Le Nôtre to design the garden and plant the arbors, high hedges of hornbeams and beeches, unique in their kind at this altitude (900 meters). Subsequently, abandoned, it was restored in 1965 by the current owner.
The castle, meanwhile, dates back to the 15th century, and was remodeled internally in the 17th and 18th centuries.

An alley lined with arbors almost 5 meters high leads to the main courtyard in the half-moon of the castle. This is made up of lawn beds punctuated with boxwood and trimmed yew, as well as ponds. It is delimited by retaining walls with blind arcades surmounted by arbors.
The gardens are accessed by two staircases each surmounted by a turret. On either side of the central aisle, each terrace bears two identical gardens. Inscribed in a rectangular space, and delimited by two rows of arbors, they present paths radiating from a central basin. Each compartment delimited by the paths is bordered by a double row of cut boxwood which contains roses.
To the south-east of the castle, an oval green room, also framed by several rows of arbors, forming a labyrinth, has a basin and rosebushes in its center.
To the northwest of these gardens there remains a vegetable garden with its circular central basin.