Parc de Reynerie, Historical urban park in Mirail district, Toulouse, France.
Parc de Reynerie is an urban park in the Mirail district spanning three hectares of French formal gardens with symmetrical paths and boxwood hedges. The layout features a central water basin and several structures arranged in classical garden proportions.
Guillaume du Barry, a botany enthusiast, created the garden between 1781 and 1789 with the help of a Parisian landscaper. It was classified as a monument historique on 13 August 1963 and became the property of the city of Toulouse in 1987. The buildings were restored in 1997, and the city bought the château itself in October 2008 to turn it into a cultural venue for the neighbourhood.
The garden's name comes from the Reynerie district, and its axis is marked by a long water channel fed by a nymphaeum grotto above a small basin. A 19th-century wrought-iron greenhouse and a 17th-century dovecote stand among the plantings. Boxwood hedges and Virginia tulip trees line the walks, and a staircase with stone lions opens the main alley.
The park lies in the Reynerie neighbourhood, south-west of central Toulouse, and is reached by Metro Line A at Reynerie station. The upper terrace holds the château and outbuildings; the lower terrace is taken up by the French-style parterre and its long water channel. A 2001 reworking opened new lawns and a new arm of the canal toward the Reynerie lake, with a car park on the southern side.
The water system that fed the canal has disappeared: water was captured at several points on the upper garden, carried to a water pavilion with valves, then redistributed to the water walk. A nymphaeum with its grotto still overlooks a small basin that supplied the long canal.
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