Cote d'Azur Garden Festival

3rd edition - Artists' Gardens

Renowned for its climate, coastline and terrain as well as its art of living, the Côte d'Azur welcomes more than 11 million international tourists a year. It is also a breeding ground for flowers, scents and garden art with 13 "Remarkable Garden", a world-renowned know-how on perfume flower and many landscape companies.

Building on these assets, the Department of Alpes-Maritimes launched in 2017 a new event: the Festival des Jardins de la Côte d'Azur.

This first festival was a real privileged moment of development and sharing, which delighted all the senses and strengthened the international influence of the Côte d'Azur.

Due to its success, attendance and media impact, this festival will be renewed every 2 years in the spring for 1 month: TheFestival des Jardins de la Côte d'Azur gives you an appointment for its 3rd edition from May 9 to June 9, 2021 with four components: a competition of landscape creations, out-of-competition gardens, lectures and numerous animations throughout the department.

The aim of the festival is to make the Côte d'Azur a leading destination for garden tourism.

The Festival is open to all audiences:

• General public: local, family, senior, garden and botanical enthusiasts, foreign and national tourists on a one-on-one or organised tour...
• School audience,
• Students in schools of landscape, architecture, design, horticulture...
• Industry professionals, artists, landscapers.

Gardens have always inspired the greatest artists in the fields of literature, sculpture, painting, cinema and photography. The relationship between the artist and the garden takes many forms.

Some artists, in love with their plants as well as their works, are passionate gardeners. Combining gardening and art, they transpose the plant into their work and imbue their garden with their creative spirit. Fascinated by nature, they sometimes become landscapers to recreate the landscape in their image.

Others see the garden as a source of inspiration or meditation. The landscaper gives shapes, creates perspectives and allows the play of light and shadow. By sublimating nature, he is in turn an artist. As much a painter for the sense of colours and shapes, as a poet for the dream, the fantasy and the imagination he brings to his creation.

The artist's garden is an inspiring place, putting art at the centre of its creation.

As part of this event, the Department offers a competition of ephemeral landscape creations on different sites, free of access, as well as activities throughout the territory of the Alpes-Maritimes.

More about the Côte d'Azur Garden Festival.https://festivaldesjardins.departement06.fr/le-festival-20099.html