The Gardens of Flaran Abbey

Opening hours

Open

  • Monday 09:30 am - 12:30 am 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Tuesday 09:30 am - 12:30 am 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Wednesday 09:30 am - 12:30 am 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Thursday 09:30 am - 12:30 am 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Friday 09:30 am - 12:30 am 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Saturday 09:30 am - 12:30 am 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Sunday 09:30 am - 12:30 am 02:00 pm - 06:00 pm

Closes at 06:00 pm

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Location : Village

Province : Navarrenx and Gers des Gaves

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  • open 7/7
  • English
    • Flaran Abbey “on the nature side”

      (Registered Historic Monument)


      At Flaran Abbey, alongside listed buildings and exhibitions, there are also 3 hectares of park and gardens that you can (re)discover, in a preserved natural environment on the banks of the Baïse. Within the walls of the site, the monastic garden was redesigned in the 18th century into a pleasure garden known as “à la française”. For several years, part of it, next to the dovecote, has housed a medieval-inspired garden. Evoking the old garden of the monks, it is made up of several parts. The most important is the garden of herbs or herbularius which shelters, in plessis of chestnut, the medicinal plants formerly used by the monks. In front of it, in the vegetable garden or hortus, are grown on flowerbeds small fruit trees, market gardening plants and vines in stakes. Near the vegetable garden, an area of grassland mown once a year helps preserve the site's biodiversity. The last part is devoted to the orchard or viridarium.


      The medieval-inspired garden makes it possible to develop various thematic activities around the pharmacopoeia or the cuisine of the Middle Ages, by participating for example each year in the national event Rendez-vous aux jardins, but also by developing educational projects thanks to the school garden. Far from being fixed, the garden of Flaran Abbey is also a place of novelties to discover.


      Outside the site, a wooded park is accessible all year round and gives access to the Baïse trail. Developed by the Gers County Council, this pedestrian path connects the port of Valence-sur-Baïse on one side and the Gauge leisure center in Condom on the other side, passing through the double lock of Graziac.

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Traveller Reviews The Gardens of Flaran Abbey

4.4 sur 5 818 reviews

  • ntonckens

    5 sur 5 Reviews posted by ntonckens on 14/08/2021

    Beautiful small abbey. Very nicely restored. Dates back from 1151. Beautiful private art collection. The surroundings and gardens are beautiful. Serenity surrounds the area. Well worth a visit.

  • Julian Tinayre-Blom

    5 sur 5 Reviews posted by Julian Tinayre-Blom on 26/07/2022

    A beautiful Abbey with the most unexpected and fantastic art collection. The abbatial church has the most fantastic acoustics and the gardens are lovely. A great day out for all the family!

  • James Cook

    5 sur 5 Reviews posted by James Cook on 04/06/2023

    This was an amazing surprise. Not only is the setting beautiful, but there are art pieces on display that you would more expect to see in the Louvre or some other high-profile art museum; but, without any crowd. This is a very worthwhile visit.

Traveller Reviews The Gardens of Flaran Abbey

4.5 sur 5 263 reviews

  • "Astonishment in the middle of nowhere"

    5 / 5 Reviews posted by St_Ogpan (London, United Kingdom) on 23/08/2022

    Begun in the 12th century, the main abbey buildings are fine examples of some good, solid Romanesque architecture. It's Cistercian, so there probably wasn't much in the way of decoration, and what...

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  • "Worth stopping for"

    5 / 5 Reviews posted by BruceFarquhar (Nelson, New Zealand) on 06/03/2022

    I highly recommend a visit here if you have an interest in art, history or architecture. The displays are well done. There is a collection of amazing art as well as five pieces by Salvador Dali Give...

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  • "Lovely setting shame about the staff"

    4 / 5 Reviews posted by Judith E on 19/10/2021

    The abbey is a beautiful building, well-restored in a picturesque setting. Sadly our first impressions were disappointing as the woman on the desk at the entrance paid us no attention at all at first...

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The Gardens of Flaran Abbey

Address

Abbaye de Flaran
32310 Valence-sur-Baïse

GPS coordinates

43° 53'24.63"N, 0° 22'23.79"E

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