Château de Segrez

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Le château en bref

Segrez Castle is a listed historic monument, located in Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières, in the Essonne department. The park, the façades and roofs of all the built elements, as well as the grotto, have been listed as historic monuments since 13 January 2009. Together with Ermenonville, the Désert de Retz, the Petit Trianon and Méréville, Segrez is one of the rare picturesque or "Anglo-Chinese" gardens from the late eighteenth century to have survived to the present day. Segrez stands out for its very good state of preservation and for its landscape design, which emphasises the natural attractions of the site and the plausible character of its follies, in the manner of Capability Brown in England. In the nineteenth century, the garden housed a botanical collection of more than 6,500 taxa under the impetus of Alphonse Lavallée. Segrez Castle and its garden lie at the heart of the Vallée de la Renarde, a site listed since 1987. The arboretum and the exceptional specimens planted by Alphonse Lavallée (Verzy beech, × Pterocarya rhederiana, weeping beech, giant sequoias, horse chestnut, ash and lime trees of very large size), as well as certain trees dating from the eighteenth-century garden (bald cypresses, tulip trees of Virginia, yew, rows of plane trees), are labelled Arbres Remarquables de France. The picturesque garden and its arboretum were, for their part, labelled Jardin remarquable by the Ministry of Culture.