Jardin des Tourneroches, Public garden in Saint-Cloud, France.
Jardin des Tourneroches is a public garden in Saint-Cloud with multiple levels of landscaped grounds spread across the site. From various points in the garden, views open up across Paris, including the Eiffel Tower, the Bois de Boulogne, and the city beyond.
The land was owned by the Goyeneche family from 1860 until 1925, who built Castel Gamio on the property with landscaped grounds. The estate also included a gardener's pavilion and decorative water features that were part of the original design.
Tourneroches is a local place name, still borne by a street in neighbouring Suresnes. The garden's name does not come from a family: the estate was called Castel Gamio when the Goyeneche family, Grandees of Spain and Dukes of Gamio, held it from about 1860 to 1925. The wrought-iron entrance gate carried their coat of arms.
The garden is entered from rue Michel-Salles in Saint-Cloud; the grounds donated to the town opened to the public in 1996, and a second hectare with the manor followed in 2001. Paths cross the slopes of the coteau, so expect uneven ground between the lawn and the viewpoints toward Paris. The water tower with its pigeon loft still stands among the trees.
The water tower topped by a dovecote still stands from the Castel Gamio estate, once surrounded by a chicken coop, kennels and a pheasantry. Doctor François Débat, who bought the property in 1930, kept the park, outbuildings and dovecote and had the present manor built by architect Henri Jacquelin.
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