In Hauts-de-France: 15 Gardens of Peace carry a universal message of brotherhood

The idea could only have  been born here, in this region that paid the heaviest price for the conflict. At the instigation of Gilbert Fillinger, director of Art & Jardins (Art & Gardens) Hauts-de-France, 15 Gardens of  Peace designed by landscape gardeners from the 35 warring nations were established in places of remembrance of the First World War. They underline the international scope of the conflict and the possibility of fraternity between peoples. In Arras, the Scottish Garden of Peace Pipers’ Peace evokes bagpipers with the blue thistle, the emblem of Scotland. In Thiepval, the garden Through the Light Forest pays homage to Welsh soldiers. An oak bench winds between the trees like a link between past and future. The soil is sown with primroses, the favourite flowers of the Welsh. The English garden Pax Dryades offers the visitor a maze of chestnut posts and chalk mounds, symbols of trenches and shell craters. At the end of the route, a clearing of beeches brings calm and serenity. You’ll also find The garden of the third train, a Franco-German garden, set with mirrors. Or in Péronne, the Garden of Eutychia is set in the moat of the castle at the entrance of the Museum of the Great War. An Irish and Northern Irish Garden of Peace dedicated to the Greek goddess of happiness is also part of this creative landscaped journey through the remembrance sites of the First World War, which are all part of a desire to create a path of peace throughout the Hauts-de-France

region.

 

15 Gardens of Peace in Hauts-de-France:

 

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