The Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret (3.5 hectares (8.6 acres)) is a renowned botanical garden located on the grounds of the Villa Thuret, 90, chemin Raymond, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. It is open weekdays without charge.
The garden was created in 1857 by Gustave Thuret (1817-1875), a botanist best known for studies of reproduction in algae, who used it to conduct plant acclimatization trials with friend and lichen expert Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (1828-1911). In 1868, novelist George Sand described it in her Traveller's Letters as the loveliest garden she had ever seen. It was bequeathed to the nation in 1878, and in 1927 attached to the Institute of Agronomic Research, which in 1946 became the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA).
Monday | 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM |
Tuesday | 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM |
Wednesday | 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM |
Thursday | 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM |
Friday | 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM |
Saturday | Closed |
Sunday | Closed |
Dan-Claudiu Gavril | Jul 31, 2017
Nice property with a great view, but it's closed most of the time, so you better check out their opening hours.
Les Kovalenko | Sep 2, 2017
This pretty garden has not only many of beautiful trees and plants but a lot of squirrels and small funny lizards - you should all visit it at least once!
Stephen Schafer | Sep 29, 2017
Reasonably ok for free.
Pierre Barbier de Reuille | Dec 26, 2016
Very pretty and well organised botanical garden
John Mercer | May 18, 2016
Free! Very low-key and relaxing.
John Donovan | Jun 13, 2018
This is a really interesting botanic garden. Beautiful location. Well worth a visit.
jean michel lefebvre | Aug 11, 2018
Pour ceux qui s’attendent à découvrir un jardin exotique avec des parterres de fleurs bien sarclés ou autre pelouse bien tondue, c’est qu'ils n’ont pas compris la vocation du jardin. Un très grand intérêt pour une collection impressionnante de taxons issus des régions à climat arides à hivers doux et tout particulièrement l’Australie. On pourrait reprocher l’unique classement par genre des espèces répertoriées, mais le site s’adresse à des gens avertis. Un plan de situation des différentes familles et espèces disponible sur internet serait le bien venu maintenant que tout le monde dispose d’un smartphone.
jlstevenson | Jul 12, 2018
Lovely little garden with lots of interesting plants and trees. Well worth walking around if you have a car and 30-45 minutes spare and it’s free to enter.
Steve Duthie | Jun 28, 2018
There is very little here for tourists, its a research garden open to the public. Toilets but nothing else. OK if you're Alan Titchmarsh but otherwise a 1/2 walk round.
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