International Garden Festival – Hortillonnages Amiens

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International Garden Festival | Hortillonnages Amiens

AMIENS > Île aux Fagots – walking tour/span

Access from the Pont de Beauvillé
43 towpath – 80000 Amiens
Parking Parmentier free entry
Information: +33 6 78 53 55 92
Free admission

Opening time
– from May to June and from September to October: open from Wednesday to Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
– in July, August: open Monday to Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
– public holidays: open from 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

CAMON > Port à Fumier – boat trip

Etang de Clermont – Access to the boarding pontoon
35 rue Roger Allou – 80450 Camon
On-site parking
Bus n°7 from downtown Amiens
Information: +33 6 78 53 55 92
By online booking

Opening time
– May to June and September to October: open Wednesday to Friday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and weekends from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
– in July, August: open Monday to Friday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and weekends from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
– public holidays: open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

An artistic & landscaped trip in the heart of The Hortillonnages of Amiens > a beautiful aesthetic and poetic escape

Dear audience, dear visitors,

The International Garden Festival | Hortillonnages Amiens welcomes you from May 26 to October 16, 2022. Unmissable annual event, it celebrates its 13th edition with 12 new creations including 2 projects by students from the UFR des Arts of Picardie Jules Verne University and a photographic installation in partnership with the Institut pour la photographie des Hauts-de-France as part of Lille 3000/UTOPIA.

A cultural and well-being program is offered throughout the summer. On your calendars! From June 4 and 5, 2022 in partnership with the Prize Directe Festival, embark on an unusual cruise in the Festival’s wooden boats to discover theatrical and musical readings on five islands of the Clermont pond.

To reserve a spot, click here.

The Festival is committed to supporting and promoting young architectural and artistic landscape creation in the Hortillonnages, a natural site between land and water of more than 300 hectares in the heart of the city of Amiens.

Arranged on islets, the gardens and plastic installations of the International Garden Festival | Hortillonnages Amiens form a poetic journey that invites you to take an offbeat, curious or amused look at this unique environment, its history and its future. It is also a discovery in soft roaming, on foot or by boat, which makes it possible to question the links between nature, culture, agriculture and heritage with regard to the many impacts caused by climate change.

Divided between different plots located on the Etang de Clermont in Camon and in Rivery, and on L’Île aux fagots in Amiens, the forty-six productions fully integrate in their reflection and in their design the contemporary issues of sustainable development and the evolutions environmental issues: preservation of the ecosystem, weakening of the banks, water resources, food production, food quality.

The Festival aims to enhance, perpetuate and promote this green heritage by offering meetings and workshops suitable for all audiences. Added to this is the desire to participate in the solidarity economy through the distribution of the food produced, and also a process of social integration with the agents of the integration site for the maintenance of the gardens and the volunteers in civic service for the ‘homepage.

Over the 12 editions, nearly 182 gardens and installations have been produced by 272 landscapers, visual artists and architects; they were appreciated by more than 450,000 visitors.

A beautiful aesthetic and poetic getaway, an artistic stroll that extends outside Amiens along the banks of the river at Long and Abbeville or even blends into the urban landscape of Saint-Quentin: landscape creations to discover in all seasons in the Somme Valley.

This project was co-financed by the European Social Fund within the framework of the National Operational Program “Employment and Inclusion” 2014-2020.

The 4th opus of the artistic & landscape creations of the International Garden Festival | Hortillonnages Amiens devoted to productions from the years 2018-2019-2020 is available for sale. You can download the order form here and discover a few pages of this new book.

The Art & Gardens | Hauts-de-France team remains at your disposal for any useful details.